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Summer School 2024 Programme (for information)

2025 Programme coming soon

Friday, 7 June 2024 – 09:00 to 10:30 CEST
Online Session

09:00

Webinar introducing the Summer School teams, the case studies and overview of the arrangements.

Sunday, 15 September 2024

14:30

Registration and coffee

15:00

Welcome and introduction to the Summer School – Leading and managing change in strategy and policy (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

  • School aims
  • Programme objectives
  • Teams’ work and institutional cases

Nadine Burquel, Director General and Summer School Director, HUMANE, BE

15:45

Workshop session: Acquiring and leveraging intercultural competence (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Nannette Ripmeester, Founder & CEO of Expertise Labour Mobility, NL

17:30

Welcome reception

18:45

Welcome dinner

Monday, 16 September 2024
Theme: Contemporary practice in the transformation of professional support services in higher education institutions

09:00

Welcome to the Freie Universität Berlin (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Change and Transformation at Freie Universität Berlin

Andrea Güttner, Director of Administration and Finance, Freie Universität Berlin, DE; Antonia Fegeler, Executive spokesperson to Andrea Güttner, Freie Universität Berlin, DE

10:10

Coffee break

10:30

Transformation strategy and execution: University College Ghent (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Koen Goethals, President, University College Ghent, BE  

11:40

Coffee break

12:00

Summer School team task: assigning team roles and approaches to the task; clarifying the team objectives and defining key questions for the case work (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

13:00

Lunch

15:00

Participants’ own change and transformation programmes (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

15:45

Workshop – Artificial Intelligence to transform professional services  (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Nadine Burquel, Director General and Summer School Director, HUMANE, BE

16:30

Coffee break

17:00

FU Berlin Campus Tour (leaving from the university)

18:00

Drinks and Dinner

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Theme: Defining, designing and delivering an institutional transformation process: leadership, governance, management and method

09:00

Reflections and Key Takeaways from the previous day (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Nadine Burquel, Director General and Summer School Director, HUMANE, BE

09:10

Processes for defining a transformational strategic model: visioning a future state, clarifying requirements and benefits, and setting objectives (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Grete Kvernland-Berg, Partner, PA Consulting Norway, NO

10:15

Coffee break

10:30

Designing the new operating model: making difficult choices, meeting challenges and dealing with organisational dilemmas (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Grete Kvernland-Berg, Partner, PA Consulting Norway, NO

11:30

Coffee break

11:45

The tactics of executing a strategic organisational transformation: power, politics, action…and watchouts for the uninitiated (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Grete Kvernland-Berg, Partner, PA Consulting Norway, NO

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Summer School team task: working on case analysis and preparing key questions (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

Coffee available

Theme: Leadership and followership to support change and transformation: self-reflection, authenticity and managing perceptions

14:30

Workshop: Developing authentic leadership (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Juliane Handschuh, Skills Trainer, DE

16:30

Bus transfer to evening city tour and restaurant

19:00

Dinner

21:30

Bus transfer to the hotel

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Theme: Transformation of professional services – Summer School cases; achieving organisational cultural change

09:00

Key takeaways and reflections from the previous day (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Nadine Burquel, Director General and Summer School Director, HUMANE, BE

09:10

Summer School case study: Transformation at the University of Helsinki (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Antti Savolainen, Director of Administrative Services, University of Helsinki, FI

09:45

Coffee break

10:10

Summer School case study: Transformation at the Australian Catholic University (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Sharone Ciancio, Director Strategy & Operations, Professional Services Hub – Corporate Services, Australian Catholic University, AU

10:40

Coffee break

11:00

Conversation and Q&As with two university case speakers (Room 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051)

Antti Savolainen, Director of Administrative Services, University of Helsinki, FI; Sharone Ciancio, Director Strategy & Operations, Professional Services Hub – Corporate Services, Australian Catholic University, AU

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Summer School team task: working on case analysis and proposals for next steps (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

14:30

Leadership, communication and organisational cultural change (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Antonia Instone, Director, Nous Group, UK

16:30

Summer School team task (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

Coffee available

18:30

Dinner

Thursday, 19 September 2024
Theme: Change Management; Digital transformation

09:00

Key takeaways and reflections from the previous day (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

09:10

Change Management in the Danish context – The case of Copenhagen University 

 

Arnold Boon, University Director, Copenhagen Business School, DK

10:40

Coffee break

11:00

Digital transformation of professional services (Room 2.2058/2.2059)

Chris Cobb, Chief Executive, ABRSM, UK

12:30

Lunch on campus

13:30

Summer School team task: finalising the written assignment (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)
Teams’ outputs to be finalised; executive brief to be submitted by no later than 16:00.

Coffee available

16:00

Free time for participants

19:30

Bus transfer from the hotel to dinner

20:00

Dinner

22:30

Bus transfer to the hotel

Friday, 20 September 2024

09:00

Parallel Sessions (part I): Teams present their work and receive feedback from the HUMANE Summer School Panel: (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

• Arnold Boon

University Director, Copenhagen Business School, DK

• Nadine Burquel

Director General and Winter School Director, HUMANE, BE

• Sharone Ciancio

Director Strategy & Operations, Professional Services Hub – Corporate Services, Australian Catholic University, AU

• Marcin Dabrowski

Chancellor, SGH – Warsaw School of Economics; HUMANE Board member, PL

• Paul Greatrix

Registrar, University of Nottingham; President, HUMANE, UK

• Antti Savolainen

Director of Administrative Services, University of Helsinki, FI

09:50

Coffee break

10:10

Parallel Sessions (part II): Teams present their work and receive feedback from the HUMANE Summer School Panel (as above) (Rooms 2.2058/2.2059, 2.2051, 2.2063)

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Plenary Session: Feedback to all teams from the Panel (Room 2.2058/2.2059)                                             

12:00

Graduation and final words

12:30

Closing lunch

Note: the programme is subject to marginal change.

Important information:

Neither HUMANE nor the Freie Universität Berlin are liable for any losses, accidents or damage to persons or objects during the Summer School in Berlin. Participants attending the Summer School in Berlin do so at their own risk and responsibility.