Winter School
Hosted by UPF-BSM, Barcelona, March 14-19, 2027
(Barcelona School of Management – University Pompeu Fabra)
Leading change in strategy and policy – Internationalisation
HUMANE’s Barcelona Winter School is an intensive, peer learning experience, themed around achieving lasting changes in strategy and policy in internationalisation.
The programme is delivered by senior university leaders and experts, with participants working on institutional case studies in multidisciplinary teams. It is designed to enhance your leadership and change management skills, broaden your international professional networks and your personal impact.
Spring Seminar
Hosted by the University of Latvia, Riga, April 15-16, 2027
Navigating Self Steering, Accountability, and Public Purpose in Changing Times
Higher education institutions worldwide are facing unprecedented challenges at the intersection of political oversight, internal governance and academic freedom. In many European higher education systems the autonomy and power of self-regulation has increased in the last decades for public universities. At the same time governments have been introducing new forms of oversight on universities in the last decades, either directly (such as with performance contracts) or indirectly (through national quality assurance and other agencies) to monitor institutional performance.
Universities operate in extraordinarily challenging environments constrained by financial pressures, shifting geopolitics, and mounting fears of global conflict. This has led governments to increase control and oversight over higher education, linking public funding more tightly to national agendas and imposing tighter regulations linked to national and global security. The social contract between the State and universities with wide delegation of power to universities is under pressure.
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Leadership Programme
Hosted by the Danish Academy in Rome (IT), May 9-13, 2027
Preparing for Strategic Professional Leadership
The 2027 edition of the Leadership Programme “Preparing for Strategic Professional leadership” is designed to cultivate the leadership skills of experienced professional service senior leaders (e.g. directors and heads of HR, finances, estates, IT, etc.) and large faculties/schools’ directors who aspire to move into more senior positions, become senior leaders of other professional service leaders in their institution and broaden their impact.
The programme will start with an introductory webinar in the Spring, followed by an intensive face-to-face programme in Rome (9-13 May 2027). It will end with a final webinar in the Autumn when participants will present an action plan.
The programme will foster out-of-the-box thinking to enhance participants’ ability to connect and respond to the complex issues that are found in more senior roles, to developing broader perspectives and stregnthen leadership capabilities. Participants will work on their leadership challenges in relation to a current unresolved major organisational challenge in their institution. They will work on their individual action plan to address these challenges which they will take back to their institutions.
Annual Conference
Summer School
Hosted by the Central European University (CEU), Vienna, September 5-10, 2027
Change Management and Transformation in Universities
HUMANE’s Summer School is an intensive, peer learning experience, themed around transformation – designing it, delivering and making sure it sticks.
The programme is delivered by senior university leaders and experts, with participants working on institutional case studies in multidisciplinary teams. It is designed to be a highly experiential professional development experience that broadens your international professional networks and your personal impact.