ate: May 20, 2020, 10.00-12.00
Venue: Online.
Read summary of the event below.
These days, and perhaps more than ever, it’s absolutely crucial to sustain our academic communities across institutional, disciplinary, and curricular boundaries. Also, it’s essential that we come together to discuss how academics may inform and critically discuss policy-making – but also assume greater societal and cultural responsibilities for the time we live in (and to come) and how we build our higher education futures.
Therefore, we hope you’ll all meet up to discuss and plan our joint collaboration towards imaging and building these futures and achieving these goals.
The programme will include:
- Introduction to the SIG (origin, goals, and aims)
- Introduction to the three separate strands
- Suggested activities and events for the autumn 2020 and spring 2021
- Envisioned outcomes of the SIG (conferences, writing collaboration, engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and the wider society).
Summary of the launch event
‘Higher Education Policy and Practice’, HEPP, was launched as a special interest group of DUN with a Zoom meeting held on 20 May 2020. Twenty-two people attended from RUC, SDU, AU, AAU and VIA. Søren Bengtsen, DPU, AU introduced the interim steering group (himself, Lise Degn and Sue Wright) and presented the ideas behind the formation of HEPP. Lise Degn, Center for Forsknings Aanalyse CFA, AU presented the work arising from the ‘Practicing Integrity’ project that had been the spur behind forming HEPP. The participants then worked in small groups to identify issues and activities on which HEPP should work over the first 1-2 years. In the final plenary, four key issues emerged:
- Research Integrity
- Academic Freedom
- De-internationalisation of Danish Higher Education
- Academic Citizenship
The Ministry of Research and Higher Education, through the project Practicing Integrity is funding a student assistant. Matej Patrik Žitňanský 
mpz@edu.au.dk was appointed to this position from July 2020 to March 2021.
Powerpoint slides from the meeting: HEPP Launch HEPP - Research integrity