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From the 5-9th of October, INN hosted the EMERGE Staff Week [RD1]for its European University alliance. Around 170 participants from the 9 participating universities in EMERGE gathered at INN’s multiple campuses to continue their work in their relevant work packages.
CCL held meetings in relation to WP 1 and WP8.
In relation to WP1, CCL director Robert J. Didham together with colleague Thomas Kloster-Jensen Macintyre led the work under Strategic Planning Unit (SPU). The Strategic Planning Unit is one of the governance bodies overseeing the strategic direction and development of the long-term strategy for the Alliance.
During the staff week, the SPU leaders coordinated joint workshops with the EMERGE Governing Board and the Administrative Leadership Committee (ALC). On Tuesday 6th, these addressed how EMERGE is supporting our universities to strengthen their impact generation through enhanced systems for strategic planning and organisational learning.
On Wednesday 7th, members of WP8 held a workshop which focused on the development of the EMERGE Balanced Scorecard as a tool for supporting strategic alignment and the integration of the alliances focus on sustainability, inclusion and resilience. This task will contribute to the broader impact assessment of the alliance activities.
On Thursday members of WP8, the ALC and the SPU met for a joint workshop on the upcoming steps of the validation process for defining the common objectives and indicators of the EMERGE Balanced Scorecard. They explored how each institution can utilise Balance Scorecard to strengthen the translation of strategic priorities into meaningful actions and to track the impact of the changes this achievess.
In the afternoon, the SPU held their own working meeting which focused on the establishment and facilitation of the SPU Learning Groups at each university. WP8 also had a separate working meeting to update each other on the work deliverables within the work package and potential challenges and obstacles to achieve all the deliverables.
More about EMERGE:
INN is a partner in the European university alliance EMERGE (Empowering the Margins of Europe through Regional and Global Engagement). Nine member institutions are spread across Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Slovakia, Cyprus, Greece and Norway, uniting to empower our marginalised regions and promote European values and identity through collaboration in education, research and societal engagement.