STAFF WEEKS
University of the Basque Country Staff Week, strand 2: Career and Professional Recognition of Participation in European University Alliances initiatives
About the strand
European University alliances foster international cooperation and offer funding for travel, organizational costs, cooperative tools design, and others. We would like to address the ways in which institutions recognize this participation in the academic and administrative careers, beyond the funding available in the project.
The programme will include sessions on: (1) short presentations of each regulatory and internal management context, resources and limitations applying to academic and administrative career paths (2) identification of challenges and limitations to internally acknowledge staff´s participation in European Universities´ activities, including project-related tasks and other cooperative actions (including legal, technical, conceptual challenges) and (3) drafting of proposals to try to overcome some of the challenges mentioned earlier.
Staff Training week dates: 13-15 October 2026
Travel days: 12 October (Please note: this is a National Bank holiday) and 16 October (Friday)
Candidates' profile
- Administrative staff working in the management and coordination of European University alliances.
- Career service officers or managers working in the field of professional development and university career services
What will be expected from participants
To present the career opportunities and professional recognition schemes at their university, both for administrative and for academic participation in European Universities activities
To have some knowledge or experience on the professional development schemes in place at their institution (including basic knowledge of regulations and/or internal career promotion opportunities
To work in groups to identify the potentialities and challenges in place at different universities and propose potential solutions or creative ways to implement some kind of recognition (academic and/or administrative) for participants in European Universities´ activities
Find the preliminary programme on the homepage of the University of the Basque Country
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