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2025 Aurora Conference at UPEC

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UPEC is happy to welcome the 2025 Aurora annual conference.

The conference will bring together leading experts from the Aurora universities to share knowledge, exchange ideas around research, education, societal impact, sustainability, and more.
The programme includes enriching plenary sessions in the morning, followed by interactive workshops, and work meetings in the afternoon ; as well as the Aurora Sustainability summit on May 22nd, organised by the task team 6.2.

The registration form is now closed, but you will have the opportunity to follow the live sessions through YouTube and LinkedIn live.
Feel free to visit this page often, as it will be updated with the latest informations about the conference.
 


We look forward to share this special event with you !

Programme

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> Workshop descriptions

The venue

The Aurora Conference will be held at the Campus André Boulle - Faculty of Law
83-85 avenue du Général de Gaulle -94000 Créteil
Métro : Créteil L'Échat (line 8)
Bus : line 281 or 172 - station "Saint-Simon"
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Speakers

OPENING CEREMONY

  • Prof. Jean-Luc Dubois-Randé, President of Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
  • Dr. Ramon Puras, Secretary General, Aurora
  • Prof. Martin Procházka, Former Rector of Palacký University Olomouc (UP)
  • Prof. Veronika Sexl, Rector of Universität Innsbruck (UIBK)
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009)
  • Prof. Martin Schwell, Aurora Institutional Coordinator at UPEC

DAY 1

Plenary session 1
  • Prof. Veronika Sexl, Rector of Universität Innsbruck
  • Sylvie Simon-Deck, Deputy Mayor of the City of Créteil
  • Dr. Susanne Conze, European Commission, DG EAC, Head of Unit for Higher Education
  • Prof. Fabienne Peraldi Leneuf, Chair of Board of Directors, Una Europa
  • Prof. Dugan O’Neil, Vice-President Research & Innovation, Simon Fraser University
  • David Itier, Head of Unit – European Strategies for Higher Education and Research, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
  • Dr. Ramon Puras, Secretary General, Aurora
  • Sabine Allain Sainte-Rose, Secretary General, ENGAGE.EU, member of EAIE Board
  • Miranda Prynne, Times Higher Education

DAY 2


Plenary session 3
  • Prof. Laurent Gamet, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
  • Prof. Lolita Rubens – Vice-Rector of Social Responsability (UPEC)
  • Dr. Emilie Frenkiel, UPEC
  • Dr. Romana Klášterecká, UP
  • Prof. Simone Moser, UIBK
  • Prof. Bing Wu, UI
  • Prof. Barbara Buchenau, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Prof. Matthias Beekmann, UPEC

Student session
  • Mathilde Chaumont, President of the Aurora Student Council (ASC) and student at UPEC
  • Sören Daehn, ASC Vice-president, and student at Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
  • Simona Gibalová, ASC Member and student at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
  • Simon Westhoff, Aurora Student Ambassador, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Hanuš Patera, former ASC President and student staff at CBS


DAY 3

Aurora sustainability summit
  • Zuzana Hunková, Coordinator for Sustainable Development, UP
  • Prof. Marjolein Zweekhorst, VU Amsterdam
  • Dr. Ramon Rispoli, UNINA
  • Benedetta Toledo, UNINA
  • Prof. Maurizio Cellura, Coordination committee of RUS, Italian Network of Universities for Sustainable Development, Università di Palermo
  • Prof. Lolita Rubens – Vice-rector of Social Responsability, UPEC
  • Dr. Hafdís Hanna Ægisdóttir – Director of the Sustainability Institute of the University of Iceland
Closing ceremony
  • Ramon Puras - Secretary General, Aurora
  • Martin Schwell - Aurora Institutional coordinator, UPEC
  • Petra Günther, Aurora Institutional Coordinator, University of Duisburg-Essen

About UPEC

SOCIALLY ENGAGED AND ACTIVE

UPEC is engaged to building knowledge and actively responding to the challenges of social and environmental transformation by promoting excellence and greater social justice. Its strategic plan is built around five pillars of interdisciplinary development, training and research:

> Health, Society, Environment
> Social transformations, Inequalities, Resistances
> Francophonies and Multilingualism
> Knowledge and practices in education and training
> Digital Science and Practice

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