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Volker Gehmlich Since 1972, Volker Gehmlich is Professor of Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück, Germany. He was course director of undergraduate and postgraduate double degree programmes. As a Bologna-Promoter he has been the major initiator of the restructuring of the institution in terms of modularising study-programmes, introducing ECTS and defining a grid of learning outcomes for bachelor and master students. Volker Gehmlich has been involved in EU-programmes since 1978 in various functions: project co-ordinator, assessor of project applications, contributor to the design of new EU initiatives, evaluator and trainer of assessors, EU-programme-expert. His network was awarded the ERASMUS-Prize in 1991. He was involved in the design of both the European and German Qualifications Framework for LLL and the German Framework for HEA. He also worked in the Technical Assistance Office of the COMETT-Programme (1987-1995), is active in the Tuning Project, is the ECTS National Contact Point for Germany, and the author of various publications on the internationalisation of organisations, skill needs, learning outcomes and credit systems and published a study on the potential introduction of a German Qualifications Framework for LLL. He has run a TOEIC test centre for many years and has been involved in comparing the European Competence Framework with TOEIC and TOEFL levels and is a member of the GRE European Advisory Council. Volker Gehmlich participated as an expert in the Australia-European Union Roundtable on Education and Training in 1996 and 2009. In 2000 he was awarded the “Prize for excellence in international cooperation of higher education” by the German Minister for Education and Research and in 2012 the “ERASMUS Individual Prize of the DAAD”. Nino Chinchaladze Nino Chinchaladze is the Executive Director of the Center for International Education in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nino’s main duties are to manage the Center for International Education, to organise education fairs, advise students and professionals on study abroad opportunities, support them to find appropriate universities and schools, works with different education organisations worldwide, CIE has well developed network of advising centers in Georgia. The Center works with the Open Society Foundations Scholarships programme and is the part of EducationUSA network. Nino Participates in Conferences and workshops like NAFSA, EAIE, US State Department Training Programs. Nino Chinchaladze has Phd in Ethnography. She got her degree in Leningrad, graduated from Tbilisi State University. She was the senior researcher at the Institute of History and Ethnography in Georgian Academy of Sciences. Jeroen Torenbeek Jeroen Torenbeek is currently Director of the Utrecht University Summer School. Jeroen studied History and Italian Language at Utrecht University, and bassoon at the conservatory. Jeroen has been involved in international relations since 1986, and was director of the University’s International Relations Office for 15 years. In that period he was founder and chairman of the Utrecht Network, Interim director and later President of the EAIE, and chair of numerous foundations and committees. Since 2005 Jeroen focuses on the Utrecht Summer School; the last seven years this Summer School increased from 300 to 3.000 international students. He wrote a number of articles on internationalisation, and is the editor of the first volume of the EAIE Professional Development Series for International Educators, Managing an international office, and editor / author of the last one: International Summer Schools.
The Hague 9-11 June 2013