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Stockholm, 18 and 19 November
Wednesday 18th November: Employment and Academic Mobility
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan - HHS)
8.30-9.00: Coffee and installing (for institutional participants)
9.00-9.30:
· Welcome address by Professor Lars Bergman, president of Handelshögskolan (HHS) and HE Joel De Zorzi, Ambassador of France.
· Opening address by M. Tobias Krantz, Minister for Higher Education and Research
The speakers will be introduced by Max Friberg, President of the French Association of Handelshögskolan
9.00-17.00: exhibition stands, open to the public (student fair including company presentations)
10.00-11.00, round table: Cultural work-life differences between Sweden and France, as part of “La journée française” organised by the student association of Handelshögskolan
Moderator: Nathalie Gibas, student at the SSE and Science Po alumn
· Gîta Paterson, chairman of the board of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in France
· William Stiernstedt, former SASSE President, current chairman of the Swedish Club in Paris
· Anders Fågelström, entrepreneur and partner in France Ouverture, helping Swedish startups get a hold on the French market
10.30-11.30, round-table: cross cultural education and careers
Moderator: Christophe Prémat, attaché for linguistic cooperation (French Embassy)
· Specificities of the job market situation in Sweden and in France by Alex Alix, EURES-France coordinator and Marie-Louise Chardet, EURES Sweden coordinator
· Feedback on personal international experience by Henrik Olesen, former INSEAD student (1983-1984)
· “French Swedish cooperation, sharing complementary skills” by G. Schorsch, vice chairman, industrial foundation of the French-Swedish association for research
· Presentation of the association of former Swedish Students in France (GAVEF)
15.00-16.00, round-table: funding and incentives for student mobility
Moderator: Nadège Nicolet, Internationella Programkontoret (IPK)
· Presentation of CSN (The Swedish Board for Study Support) by Henrik Strömberg Croné, Consultant, Division for Administrator Support
· Erasmus Programmes between France and Sweden by Nadège Nicolet, Desk Officer, International programmes of IPK and feedback on Erasmus experience in France by Swedish student
18.00-20.00: Ceremony award of the Swedish French Prize for Excellence in Research  chaired by HE Joël de Zorzi, ambassador of France and Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu, Collège de France and reception at the French Residency.
22.00: Concert of The Teenager at the Debaser Slussen in the framework of the French-Swedish Rock Season (www.debaser.se) .
List of the companies participating in the forum organized by the Student Association of HHS:
Dalkia, Louis Vuitton, Michelin, Pernod Ricard, Renault, Société Générale, Unibail Rodamco, l'Oréal, .
Thursday 19 November: International Curriculum and Academic Mobility
Venue: Royal Institute of Technology / KTH Library, Osquars backe 31.
09.00-9.30: registration, coffee and installation
09.00-9.30: Welcome address byt Eva Malmström Jonsson, Vice President of KTH
09.30-16.00: exhibition stands, open to the public (student fair)
French-Swedish worshop on academic partnerships and joint degrees
Stockholm, KTH, 19 November 2009
Organized as a side-event of the CampusFrance Nordic Tour "Study in France and make a career!" organized by CampusFrance and the French embassies in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki.
The main purpose of this workshop is to share experiences and discuss possibilities of cooperation in order to develop double and joint degrees between Swedish and French Higher Education institutions. It is following upon the French-Swedish memorandum on joint degrees signed in 2007 by both ministers for Higher Education and Research and the recent bilateral meeting between Mrs Valérie Pécresse and Mr Tobias Krantz on 16 October in Umeå.
programme
09.30-9.45: opening address by the University Chancellor, Prof. Anders Flodström
Session 1: institutional context and new opportunities for cooperation
Moderator: Michael Hanke, Associated professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication (KTH)
9.45-10.05: the French system of Higher Education and the legal framework for academic cooperation in France by Florentine Petit, Director for European Affairs at the General Directorate for International Affairs and Cooperation (DREIC)
10.05-10.25: the Swedish system of Higher Education and the legal framework for academic cooperation in Sweden, by Staffan Wahlèn, former Senior Advisor (Högskoleverket)
10.25-10.45: the French-German University (UFA), a powerful instrument for cooperation, by Prof. Dr-Ing Otto Iancu, Vice-President of UFA
10.45-11.05: academic cooperation background between France and Sweden, by Alan Swan, international commission of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE)
11.05-11.20: coffee Break
Session 2: how can we develop new forms of partnerships and attract more students in bilateral programmes?
Moderator: Denis Viart, Counsellor for Cultural Cooperation, French embassy
11.20-12.10: feedback and on-going projects and academic co-operation between French and Swedish Higher Education institutions
Annya Requilé, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Dean of the Graduate School, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Lê Thanh-Tâm, Dean of graduate studies/master's program, Ecole Polytechnique
Ariane Bliek, Head of the International Relations Office, University Paul Cezanne – Aix-Marseille 3
12.10-12.20: conclusion: “wrap up”, representative of HSV together with the French Embassy
Please Register:
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The partners of the CampusFrance Nordic Tour in Sweden are: the Student Association of Stockholm School of Economics, the Royal Institute of Technology, Högskoleverket, Internationella Programkontoret (IPK), Centrala Studiestödsnämnden (CSN), the French cultural center in Stockholm, the French-Swedish Chamber of Trade, Air France, Arbetsförmedlingen (the Swedish Employment Agency).
      
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