Presented the report «Institutional transformation and leadership development at universities: a mapping exercise», produced under the EU-funded NEWLEAD project

05.11.2021

The NEWLEAD project, co-funded by the European Commission's Erasmus + Program and led by the URL, aims to build the capacity of university leaders to lead change management and address the new priorities of the institutional transformation agenda

Friday, 5th November 2021. Under the NEWLEAD project (Innovative Leadership and Change Management in Higher Education), led by Ramon Llull University and with the support of a consortium of European educational institutions, researchers Luisa Bunescu, US Policy Analyst at the European University Association, and Thomas Estermann, Director of Governance and Funding at the same institution, have published the report «Institutional transformation and leadership development at universities: a mapping exercise», created with the aim of providing a complete image of development of leadership and institutional transformation of Europe's higher education systems.

The report is based on the analysis of two surveys for higher education institutions in Europe and aimed at learning about their experiences and practices in the field of institutional transformation and training programs for university leaders. The first, aimed especially at higher education leaders, achieved more than 200 answers from 27 different countries, and the second, aimed at conferences of rectors and major European university associations, brought together a total of 21 answers. Both surveys showed important results about the importance of training higher education leaders as a tool to facilitate post-pandemic university adaptation and transformation.

Born in 2020, the NEWLEAD project, co-financed by the European Commission's Erasmus + Program, aims to build and define in the next two years the capacities of university leaders to lead change management and address the new priorities of the institutional transformation agenda, always taking into account the multiple functions and challenges that the university sector is constantly adopting and adapting, linked, above all, to the new expectations of students in the face of a volatile and demanding labour market and other exogenous agents such as, in this case, the crisis of COVID-19.

View or download the full report here.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: FOCUS GROUPS FOR UNIVERSITY LEADERS

On this month the project consortium has opened a call to participate in the first focus group that includes the project, aimed at leaders of European higher institutions, and whose main objective is to reflect and generate mutual learning about the disruptive transformation in the respective institutions of the participants. Registration will remain open until November 21st and the sessions will take place on December 9th and 10th at the facilities of Ramon Llull University (Barcelona).

Click here to consult the participation rules and access the registration link.