AIMS of IHEPI

IHEPI is undertaken to create a NETWORK of EXPERTS engaged in higher education policy, innovation policy and those worked on establishing partnerships between the various actors of a knowledge-based economy.

The aim of the IHEPI2009 is to offer a new platform for a broad range of interested institutional actors as natural partners in the co-ordination and orientation of the generation of knowledge and innovation representing the rational and considerations of higher education, research and development as well as business enterprises.

More efficient utilization of the innovative potential and resources of knowledge calls for more reflective and responsive understanding of the supply and demand sides of the application of the results of higher education and innovation processes. The necessary definition and the harmonisation of the aspirations, expectations and possibilities of these partners require improved connection and communication among one another and across national borders.

IHEPI will also give an opportunity to exchange experiences, analyse, develop and improve participants’ approaches to the development of trans-European collaboration. In this respect, the effects and stimulus provided by the launch of the EIT as the European co-coordinative centre for concerted research and innovation endeavours need to be explored in more details. The selection and the launch of the Knowledge and Innovation Centres is well expected to create more focused and direct bonds of co-operation on a European scale.

Our planned conference and workshops are also going to present a timely opportunity not only to discuss, but also to identify the prospects and the possibilities for involvement in an expanding range of activities under this evolving initiative at the level of the Union.

The conference will represent an occasion where interested universities and research centres could connect their purposes and priorities to those of potential future partners.