The event brings together experts, potential future employers and stakeholders for whom the graduates of the transnational Master’s program in European Studies and similar programs might be interesting partners. What kind of knowledge, skills and competences do they consider most relevant from their perspective? What do they expect from graduates of such a program? Which challenges do they consider as upcoming and pertinent in the near future, that future staff members will have to deal with?
Friday, 29 November 2024
Programme
- 9:30 am – 11:00 am Roundtable
European Studies in a World in Flux: Perspectives from Employers and Stakeholders
Experts, future employers and stakeholders reflect at this roundtable the challenges in European politics, culture, business and academia that they see emerging in the face of the (recent) dramatic transformations in European and global contexts. Ranging from economic crises, climate change, warfare, the rise of populist and authoritarian politics as well as the fragility of the international order, these have variable and specific effects in different sectors of European societies. The discussion shall help to map the variable concerns and highlight potential strategies to cope with them from the perspectives of professionals. This includes their expectation from universities, scholars, and students and the role that would have to play.
Participants: Edita Dranseikaite (European Commission, DG for Energy, Brussels), Laura Greiff (Europa Union Deutschland - Landesverband Sachsen e. V., Dresden), Torsten Loschke (City of Leipzig, Knowledge Policy Department, Leipzig), Heli Meisterson (Staatsschauspiel Dresden), Jonas Roleder (European Parliament Liaison Offices, Berlin)
Chair: Steffi Marung (Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig)
- 11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break and Introduction into the World Cafés
The World Cafés bring together potential future employers and employees. The aim is, to map and make transparent mutual expectations and to discuss ways how to meet them. Representatives of stakeholders/ future employers act as hosts of the World Café session, i.e. they stay in the thematic room and welcome two different groups of students/ participants consecutively.
- 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm World Cafés
World Café „Academia”
Martina Keilbach (Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Leipzig), Vilius Mačkinis (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius), Katarzyna Witczyńska (Faculty of Social Sciences, Wrocław)
World Café „Culture“
Heli Meisterson (Staatsschauspiel Dresden), Milan Procyk (Freelance Journalist and prospective trainee Deutschlandfunk, Leipzig)
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
- 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm World Cafés
World Café „Business/ Public Service"
Christian Hauke (SMILE, Leipzig), Torsten Loschke (City of Leipzig, Knowledge Policy Department)
World Café „Politics“
Laura Greiff (Europa Union Deutschland - Landesverband Sachsen e. V., Dresden), Jovana Marovic (BiEPAG, Belgrade)
- 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Coffee Break and Exhibition of results
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Plenary concluding discussion
Venue
Leipzig University, ReCentGlobe, Nikolaistrasse 6-10, 5th floor, Room 5.55 & online
This is a hybrid event with limited in-person attendance for 20 participants. By registering, you will receive an email confirming to attend in person. First come, first served.
Funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst