Blog for the third mission

There are several commonly accepted ranking systems for the First and Second Missions, which provide indicators to measure excellence in Higher Education Institutions around the world. Rankings improve quality assurance by allowing the institutions to understand their own performance, develop best practices, and provide effective and efficient value to society. They also provide quality indicators to governments, society and industry. However, there are no commonly agreed indicators or methodologies to assess quality in Third Mission activities.

This project will develop such indicators, promoting excellence in Third Mission activities, and encouraging Higher Education Institutions to share best practices across Europe.

Friday 26 November 2010

Facing the Rankings - Conference, 20-21 January 2011, Vienna

The interactive conference "Facing the rankings - Using benchmarking tools for strategic positioning" (Vienna, 20-21 January 2011) will look at the value of benchmarking as a modern management tool among the range of transparency tools such as classifications, rankings and benchmarking exercises while at the same time discuss the relevance and strength of indicators, focusing more specifically on internationalization, university-enterprise cooperation and regional innovation and linking them directly to the work carried out in the U-Map and U-Multirank projects.
More information on the Project and Conference website.

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