Governance
For a comprehensive european space university for earth and humanity.
UNIVERSEH views itself as one inter-university campus. Its governance enables the implementation of its common vision and facilitates the establishment and development of projects in education, research innovation and valorisation.
As outlined in the UNIVERSEH Mission Statement, endorsed at the highest level in each partner university, the governing structures of the Alliance consist of 6 bodies:
- The Governing Board is responsible for validating general policy, major goals and medium- and long-term strategies.
- The Academic Council oversees all learning and staff development activities and their certification.
- The Student Council is responsible for coordinating student involvement.
- The Steering Committee is responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of the Work Plan.
- The Advisory Board ensures that stakeholders are actively involved in the project implementation.
- The Quality Assurance Committee is in charge of monitoring the quantitative and qualitative mplementation of UNIVERSEH’s activities.
Governing Board
The Governing Board is responsible for validating general policy, major goals and medium- and long-term strategies:
- It is composed of the presidents or rectors of all universities and one student representative;
- It meets twice a year, including one physical meeting.
Prof. Marc Renner
Thomas Calvy (student representative)
Prof. Marie-Hélène Jobin
Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck
Prof. Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
Prof. Jerzy Lis
Academic council
The Academic Council oversees all learning and staff development activities and their certification:
It is composed of the five deans/vice-rectors for education from all members of the alliance and three students representing the bachelor, master and PhD levels;
Its missions are to oversee all learning and staff development activities and their certification:
- It is responsible for the approval and certification of all learning activities organized by the Alliance;
- It proposes and implements program policy, promotes common quality standards, ensures that new common courses and programs are coherent with the project aim and works towards a European diploma;
- It works towards an automatic mutual recognition of higher education and training qualifications and on the outcomes of learning periods abroad within the Alliance;
- It collaborates with the advisory board to build innovative employment-oriented curricula.
It meets twice a year, including one physical meeting.
Prof. Vincent Simoulin
Prof. Christina Stange – Fayos
Prof. Catherine Léglu
Prof. Stefan Marschall
Ass. Prof. Mats Näsström
Victor Olofsson (student representative)
Prof. Rafał Dańko
Natalia Mizera (student representative)
Student council
The Student Council is responsible for coordinating student involvement:
- It is composed of two student representatives from each partner university;
- It is responsible to ensure students’ input and feedback on the Alliance activities and policies, with a particular focus on under-represented and disadvantaged groups’ views;
- It meets twice a year, including one physical meeting.
Thomas Calvy
Jules Coeuillet
Ariana Sobhani
Vyara Noncheva
Ulisse Nassi
Milan Grigull
Miray Subasi
Long Chen
Sigrid Holgersson
Victor Olofsson
Natalia Mizera
Dagmara Stasiowska
Filip Wylęgała
Steering committee
The Steering Committee is responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of the Work Plan:
- It is composed of one representative from each university, one person for each work package leader team except for WP1 and WP7, two students from the Student Council, and the project manager and the administrative and finance officer;
- It meets twice a year;
- In addition, a physical meeting is organised once a year jointly with the Advisory Board.
Prof. Emmanuel Zenou
Hélène Gentils
Jules Coeuillet
Prof. Eric Tschirhart
Nicole Dittrich
Advisory board
The Advisory Board ensures that stakeholders are actively involved in the project implementation.
It is composed of stakeholders interested in the project.
It is engaged in the following activities:
- Advising the academic council and steering committee on the content of entrepreneurship and innovation courses and activities, and recommend lecturers who could take part in the courses;
- Participating in the project activities, especially related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation;
Sharing and finding opportunities (traineeship, internship); - Reviewing the project’s results quality and relevance;
Mentoring and networking activities; - Contributing to the dissemination strategy and efforts.
It meets concurrently with WP7 workshops organised by the Alliance and has yearly meetings with the Steering Committee.
Prof. Bjarne Bergquist
Maria Pettersson
Sigrid Holgersson (student representative)
Prof. Tadeusz Uhl
Quality assurance committee
The Quality Assurance Committee is in charge of monitoring the quantitative and qualitative implementation of UNIVERSEH’s activities.
It is composed of one representative per partner, one external stakeholder and one student.
Its functions are to:
- Define the standards, criteria and quality indicators;
Set up the quality review processes; - Carry out self-evaluation procedures for the Alliance;
Plan and prepare of the activities related to monitoring and quality control; - Ensure compliance with EU rules;
Report to the Steering Committee on the situation in the field of quality, at least annually; - Check the quality of deliverables and consistency with the work plan and global vision of the project, the Governing Board giving the final approval.
It meets twice a year.
Michel
Bosco
Member of the Board at RHEA Group
President at RHEA Groupe France SAS & RHEA Cybersécurité France SAS
Christophe
Grudler
Tomasz
Kozlowski
Certified Investment Fund Director|Fund Governance|Alternative Investments|Innovation Finance|Business Development
European Investment Fund - EIF
Géraldine
Naja
Director, Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement
European Space Agency - ESA
Mathias
Van Den Bossche
Director, research, development and product policy
Thales Alenia Space
Florentin Gachet
Ariana Sobrani (student representative)
Jan Zutavern
Prof. Pawel Packo
Lukasz Lis (student representative)
Deliverables
Each UNIVERSEH work package is in charge of its own outcomes and actions.
Deliverables of work package 1:
- D 1.2 Terms of Reference of each governance body
- D 1.3 Administrative Toolkit
- D 1.4 Data Management Plan
- D 1.5 Quality Assurance Process
- D 1.12 Minutes of the governance and coordination bodies meetings M9
- D 1.13 Minutes of the governance and coordination bodies meetings M18
- D 1.14 Minutes of the governance and coordination bodies meetings M24
- D 1.15 Minutes of the governance and coordination bodies meetings M30
- D 1.20 Progress report M18
Deliverables of work package 2:
- D 2.1 List of mobility indicators
- D2.2 Report on mobility within the Alliance
- D 2.3 Analysis report on students’ mobility experience within the Alliance
- D 2.4 Content of the European History and Culture Course
- D 2.5 Brochure
- D 2.6 MOPLAT section on UNIVERSEH website
- D 2.7 Program Outline Feel at home program
- D 2.8 Report on UNIVERSEH collaborationwith Erasmus Student Network
- D 2.10 Implementation Plan for Family Support for Staff Mobility
- D 2.11 Multilingualism Plan
- D 2.14 Report UNIVERSEH going digital
- D. 2.17 Winter School report
Deliverables of work package 3:
Deliverables of work package 4:
- D 4.4 Online learning resource to enhance professional personal learning network
- D 4.6 Prerequisites for hybrid learning and virtual classroom
- D 4.7 Implementation of Hybrid and virtual classroom; experience and recommendation
- D 4.8 Study abroad assess at home
- D 4.10 Description of Methodology
- D 4.12 ADN Production Tools and Method
- D 4.14 Report describing different reality processing concepts impact and usability in learning
Deliverables of work package 5:
- D 5.1 List of UNIVERSEH courses in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- D 5.1 Annex 1: Existing programmes
- D 5.1 Annex 2: List of ACTIVITIES / EVENTS in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- D 5.2 Development plan for UNIVERSEH curriculum in entrepreneurship and Innovation with a focus on Space field
- D 5.4 Report on the GeoData program
- D 5.8 Monitoring report on the development of cooperation between the Alliance and external stakeholders
- D 5.10 Networking and mentoring programmes
- D5.12 Coopperation between the Alliance and External Stakeholders
Deliverables of work package 6:
- D 6.1 Report on staff seminar
- D 6.2 Development plan for EuroCharter on Equity, Inclusion and Diversity: towards European standards
- D 6.3 Eurocharter
- D 6.4 Minutes on Mobility scholarships for students with specific needs
- D 6.5 Catalogue UNIVERSEH – services for students with specific needs final
- D 6.8 Testimonial videos of women in the space sector
- D 6.10 Report on support services for migrants and refugees
- D 6.11 Report on the first yearly joint conference on diversity and inclusion
- D 6.12 Report on a yearly joint conference on diversity and inclusion M24
Deliverables of work package 7:
