Teacher Power! - Higher Education Policy in Action with PROFFORMANCE

The Teacher Power! - Higher Education Policy in Action with PROFFORMANCE event celebrates the project's goals and achievements by highlighting the performances of higher education teachers and showcasing the tools and resources the project offers to support development in the field.

During the event, the award recipients of the PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award for 2024/25 will present their projects and best practices. Attendees will learn about the PROFFORMANCE Toolkit and the project's purpose, which empowers educators to lead meaningful change. Participants will gain valuable insights and perspectives on teaching and higher education policy, helping to shape the future of education.

Participation is free, but registration is required.

The "Teacher Power!" conference may be of interest not only to project partners, experts, and awardees, but also to policy decision-makers, as well as to HEI top management, HEI experts and academics, staff, or students active in international activities. It is also open to anyone with an interest in the project results and future plans.

For more information about the event, the presenters, and the PROFFORMANCE+ project in general, visit the profformance.eu webpage. 

Time and date: 04. June, 2025 9:30-16:00 (CET)

Programme

09:30-09:40 Opening
Gábor Kamocsa – Head of Unit – Tempus Public Foundation

Greetings
Flora Megyeri - MCI Policy Officer for higher education – Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Hungary
09:40-09:45 Why PROFFORMANCE?
A subjective point of view
Vilmos Vass, Profformance+ lead expert, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary
09:45-09:50 National meets PROFFORMANCE: How excellence matters?
Alexander Kohler, BMBWF, Austria 
09:50-09:55 Watch now!
Get to know the Profformance Teacher Award 
09:55-10:10 Recognizing achievements: Role of institutions
Mr. András Báló, Head of Department of Higher Education Training, Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Hungary
  • Institutional Contest Champions – PROFFORMANCE Label of Excellence
  • Announcement of National Awardees
10:10-12:10 National policies and individual best practices
10:10-10:35

Digitalization in Higher Education: National reflections
Tomáš Barták, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic
Announcement of Awardees in Digitalization
Interactive session with the audience - participants' experience
10:35-11:00

Giving the chance - inclusion and diversity: A national point of view
Đurđica Dragojević, Ministry of Science, Education and Youth, Croatia
Announcement of Awardees in Inclusion
Interactive session with the audience - participants' experience
11:10-11:20 Break
11:20-11:45

Sustainability: A national perspective
Lasha Margishvili - National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, Georgia
Announcement of Awardees in Sustainability 
Interactive session with the audience - participants' experience
11:45-12:10

National insights on Internationalization
Ivana Balšić, Acting Coordinator of Higher Education Unit in Foundation Tempus, Serbia
Announcement of Awardees in Internationalization
Interactive session with the audience - participants' experience
12:10-12:50 Lunch break
12:50-13:05

Plenary – The PROFFORMANCE Toolkit  and Professional Network - Call for Institutional PROFFORMANCE Ambassadors (IPAs)
Gábor Kamocsa – Head of Unit – Tempus Public Foundation, Hungary 

Discover the Profformance Assessment Tool – Brief video 
IPA: Institutional Profformance Ambassadors – Policy and institutional point of view
Dr. Laura Sinóros-Szabó, University of Sopron, Hungary
 13:05-14:05 New developments in Profformance+: Assessment Tool 2.0 & PROFFORMANCE Online Courses
Breakout sessions – Part 1
  • A – The cross-cutting role of SUSTAINABILITY
    Bárbara Filipa Casqueira Coelho Gabriel, University of Aveiro, Portugal

    Best practice presentations by alphabetical order:
    CERL for CSR | Empowering Future Leaders: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Higher Education Through Community-Engaged Learning
    Climate Action, Now! | Climate Action, Now! Museen im (Klima-)wandel / Climate Action, Now! Museums in (Climate) Change
    FLEX-EMLAB | FLEXible Electric Machines LABoratory
    Talking Places | Talking Places' Platform for Safeguarding and Sustainable Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage via Students' Participatory Activities

  • B – DIGITALIZATION, as a guiding principle
    Jan Beseda, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Czech Republic

Best practice presentations by alphabetical order:
ACT-COI – An Asynchronous Community of Inquiry | Building a Community of Inquiry in a fully asynchronous Master program by fostering student activity and interactivity
AssessME | AI-Powered Tool for Assessing Programming Assignments and Ensuring Academic Integrity
DgWEI | Digital Way in Education and Internationalization
DIGITS | Digital Interactive Gamified Teaching with Social Media and GeoGebra
IntElMSc PARFORCE | Experimental Testing Based on Impact and Resistance: Wind, Fire and Earthquake
14:05-14:20 Break
14:20-15:20 New developments in Profformance+: Assessment Tool 2.0 & PROFFORMANCE Online Courses
Breakout sessions – Part 2
  • C – INCLUSION, building an equitable learning landscape
    Silke Preymann, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Best practice presentations by alphabetical order:
ASSIST HEIDI | Designing and Implementing Assistive Tools for People with Disabilities.
INNklusion | Assistive solutions for people with disabilities
SYA | Symbols in Art
We Teach Together! | We Teach Together! Participatory Higher Education Method

  • D – INTERNATIONALIZATION, a key horizontal dimension
    Irine Darchia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Best practice presentations by alphabetical order:
INNOSOCIAL | Innosocial aspects of entrepreneurship: an interdisciplinary approach and course design for raising eco-awareness and developing the social responsibility attitudes of the innovative future changemakers
SS&P22 | Students in Science and Practice for the 22nd Century
TEFE A+ BIP | Teachers of English for Future Europe: International Teaching Practice Induction Course
V-LEAD-X | Virtual Learning Engagement and Academic Development through Exchange and Collaboration
15:20-15:30 Final thoughts & Wrap-up and farewell
15:30-16:00 OPTIONAL
Building bridges: Informal networking with the awardees, experts, partners and participants
Breakout sessions – Part 3
  • A – SUSTAINABILITY
  • B – INCLUSION
  • C – DIGITALIZATION
  • D – INTERNATIONALIZATION

To join the event, use the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82841303781?pwd=taFFIRXdEga2gdaUenD8uBAQI9Yw7q.1

 

Last modified: 04-06-2025

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