Kick off meetingJan 2013

Spike Tang – International Project Officer

Content:

UA introduction & expertise

International Project Management Office

UA participation in DEPOCEI

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UA introduction & expertise

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History 1545. Universidad de Orihuela

1979. The University of Alicante

Students > 32,000

Exchange students > 2,500

Employees2,470 Teachers and Researchers1,291 Administrative staff

Institutes/ Schools7 Faculties & University Schools, 60 departments

Area

Laws, Sciences, Economy, Philosophy & Arts, Education, Nursing, Tourism, Optics, Architecture, IT, Engineering, Geography, etc.

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207 Research Teams 15 Research Institutes. 262 Public Funded Research Projects (regional, national &

EU) 482 Private Funded (mainly by Industry) Research Projects

Revenue generated by R&D+i: €17 million

Lucentum’s Observatory for Administration and Compared Public Policies

Constituted in 2002 as a Research Unit for Political and Administration Science

Permanent Research Group

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Objective: Study, research, innovation, co-operation and publication:

Modernisation of the administrative policy system, strengthening of the State and of the Public Administrations

Government, development and local management Management of the knowledge and of the education Human Resources management in the public sector Labour policy integration and co-operation processes at national and

international dimension in the field of administrative policy Administrative policy system of North America (Canada, USA

and Mexico)

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Study: Master in Public Administration and Management of the

Migratory Politics Organisation, Management and Evaluation of Public

Entities

Publication: Documentos Básicos para la Modernización y el

Fortalecimiento de las Administraciones Públicas en Iberoamérica.

(Basic documents for modernising and strengthening the Public Administration in Latin America)

ISBN: 978-84-8454-878-2

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Agreements: Asociación América - España, Solidaridad y Cooperación AESCO

(Colombia). Ayuntamiento de Finestrat (España). Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano (Costa Rica). Fundación para el Desarrollo y el Fortalecimiento Municipal e Institucional

de Centro América y Caribe - DEMUCA (Costa Rica).

Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua (Panamá). Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Universidad de Panamá (Panamá). Universidad de Santander (Colombia). Universidad Iberoamericana (República Dominicana). Universidad Libre de Colombia - Seccional Pereira (Colombia). Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia). Universidad Panamericana de Cuenca (Ecuador). Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Izasa Cadavid (Colombia)11

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Previous projects:

Creation of a Research Network between Universities and International Organisation from Spain and Colombia, for the study of migratory, gender policies, within the framework of institutional strengthening, democracy and local government procedure(Funded by: Regional Minister of Immigration and Citizenship)

State and Public Administration Organisation Migratory Policies and Public Policies of Co-operation & Development(Funded by: University of Alicante)

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Interuniversity Institute of Social Development and Peace

(IUDESP) Founded in 2006 but operated since 1995

- Peace and Development Studies- European Observatory of Social Trends- Human Development of Social Policy

Inter-university: UA + University Jaume I of Castellón

Master and PhD – Peace, Conflict and Development

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Research Area:

Social Participation and Welfare Peace Studies Politics and Society in the Middle East Poverty and Social Exclusion Social Politics Process of Regional Integration

University Institute for Computing Research (IUII)

A research body attached to the UA 95 reserachers

Offers: Aids, Grants, Job & Research vacanies, Placement… Masters, PhD, Trainings, Seminars, Conferences Provide scientific and technical advisory services to

individual, public or private business entities within the scope of the institute’s competence.

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Reserach Fields:

Computer architectures and technology, Digital libraries, High performance computing and parallelism Cryptology and computational security E-learning Industrial computing Web engineering and dataware houses Language processing and information systems, etc

Introduction of UA – Introduction of UA – Technology Transfer Technology Transfer

National Projects and Grants R&D Contracts. University – Companies / Industry Intellectual Property International Projects (OGPI) Innovation Unit – Spin Off and Tech Based Companies.

UA: 5th Spanish University in patent applications in 2011

SGITT – OTRI joined the Network of Information Points on Reserach, Development and Innovation Activities (PI+D+i)

UA Introduction - UA Introduction - consultancyconsultancy Consultancy on IP

management

Intellectual Property Issues (Helpline, Agreement drafting, Technology Transfer contracts…)

Exploitation of R&D Results Proposal Drafting and Partner Search for Projects Strategic Planning

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International Project Management Office

OGPI

OGPI – OrganogramOGPI – Organogram

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UA PRESIDENT

Vice-President for R & D

Vice-President for IR

17 staff

Financing programmes: TEMPUS ALFA EDULINK Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) FP5, FP6, FP7 IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programmes Erasmus Mundus MED (ENPI) Lifelong Learning Programme

International Project International Project Management OfficeManagement Office

Planning And Management Of Higher Education

Institutions

(Financial Management, International Relations,

Research etc)

Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer

University – Industry Cooperation

Quality & Accreditation

Curriculum Development

Research & Innovation

Access to Higher Education

Lifelong Learning, E-learning

OGPI – Thematic AreasOGPI – Thematic Areas

India

China

Sinapore

Malaysia

Indonesia

Vietnam

Cambodia

Thailand

The Philippines

Cameroon

Nigeria

Ghana

Kyrgyzstan

PortugalGreece

Austria

Czech Republic

Hungary

Poland

Jordan

Moldova

Sweden

Bulgaria

AlgeriaTunisia

Kenya

Tanzania

Uganda

MoroccoEgypt

Turkey

Ukraine

Palestine

LebanonArmenia

Azerbaijan

Uzbekistan

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Argentina

Chile

Brazil

Costa Rica

CubaMexico

Peru

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

PanamaColombia

Bolivia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Uruguay

Venezuela

Belgium

Germany

France

Spain

The Netherlands

Russia

CroatiaItaly

United Kingdom

Slovenia

EstoniaDenmark

Lithuania

Malta

Belarus

Luxembourg

Kazakhstan

86 Countries in co-operation

Areas:Planning & Management of HEIs (Financial Management, International Relations, Research…), Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, University – Industry Cooperation, Quality & Accreditation, Curriculum Development, Research & Innovation, Access to Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, E-Learning

Tajikistan

Georgia

Serbia

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Macedonia

Ireland Slovakia

SyriaLibya

Montenegro

Finland Romania

OGPI: Project ExperienceOGPI: Project Experience

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UA participation in DEPOCEI

WP1: Development of the structure and content of the training programmes on EU public policies for non-academic trainees

1.2 - Participation in the preparation of Report on training best practice

1.3 &1.5 - Participation in the development of the training programmes structure, course content and methodology

1.4 - UA will host workshop on developing structure of the training programmes (date – to be confirmed, approx. Sept/ Oct)

UA participation

WP5 Quality control and management

5.1 – Preparation of instructions for project reporting 5.3 – Access the final versions of training programmes,

course syllabi, delivered trainings and prepare the report.

UA participation

WP 6: Dissemination

6.5 – Regional conference Participate in the conference and present our contributions Propose further co-operation Internal & external dissemination of DEPOCEI within UA

network

UA participation

WP7: Project sustainability

7.1 Assist in developing business & marketing plans

UA participation

WP8: Project Management

Appointment of UA members in Steering and Co-ordination Team. Respect of all the internal project administration rules as well as TEMPUS rules.

UA participation

Thank you!

spike.tang@ua.es

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