7th Prague Forum “Towards a Pan-European Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education”

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 1-2 October 2015
 

Thursday 1 October 2015

9.00 - 9.30 Opening session – Launch of the Platform
Chaired by Ladislav Bánovec, Director of Department for International Relations, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Welcoming speeches:

• Kateřina Valachová, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports
• Radka Wildova, Dean of the Faculty of Education
• Tomáš Zima, Rector of the Charles University
• Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General, DGII - Democracy, Council of Europe

9.30 - 10.30 Plenary session 1: “Setting the framework: the work of the Council of Europe in the field”

Chaired by Jindřich Fryč, Chair, Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice (CDPPE), Council of Europe

• Presentation of the work done by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) by Christian Manquet, Vice-President of GRECO
• An introduction to the work on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education done by the Council of Europe, Presentations by Ian Smith (University of the West of Scotland) and Tom Hamilton (General Teaching Council for Scotland) 
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10.50 - 12.15 Plenary session 2: “Cross views on perspectives and practices”

Chaired by Marie-Anne Persoons, Belgium, CDPPE Representative    

Speakers:

• Haldis Holst, Deputy Secretay General, Education International
• Boris Divjak, U4 Anti-corruption Resource Centre
• Muriel Poisson, International Institute for Educational
• Planning (IIEP-UNESCO)
• Elena Panfilova, Transparency International

Questions & Answers

14.00 - 15.30 Parallel working group sessions: Case-studies

A. Ethical behaviour of all actors in education  
Chaired by Sabine Rohmann, Education and Culture Committee of the INGO Conference of the Council of Europe, Member of the Bureau of the CDPPE

Case studies:

• Ethical behaviour in professional codes and standards, Tom Hamilton, General Teaching Council for Scotland, United Kingdom
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• Advocating for honesty and transparency, Daiva Penkauskiene, Modern Didactics Centre, Lithuania
• Ethical principles, Ian Smith, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom

B. Academic Integrity / Plagiarism
Chaired by Maija Innola, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland, Representative of the CDPPE

Case studies:

• Promoting Maturity in Policies for Plagiarism across Europe and beyond, Irene Glendinning, Coventry University, United Kingdom
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• Plagiarism in German Medical Dissertations, Debora Weber-Wulff, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

C. Recognition of qualifications

Chaired by Stefan Delplace, EURASHE, Member of the Bureau of the CDPPE

Case studies:

• Decision on the automatic generic recognition of Bachelor and Master qualifications across the BENELUX countries, Marie-Anne Persoons, Belgium
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• The experience of the Swedish ENIC-NARIC Office in dealing with fraudulent credentials and diploma mills, Erik Johansson, Department of Qualifications Recognition, ENIC-NARIC Sweden
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16.00 - 17.00 Group sessions continued

17.00 Meeting of the General rapporteur with working groups rapporteurs

20.00 Award of the Pro Merito medal of the Council of Europe in the memory of Germain Dondelinger

Friday 2 October 2015

09.30 - 11.00 Roundtable - Input to the future work of the Platform: the answers from the parallel working group sessions

Chaired by Etienne Gilliard, Vice Chair, CDPPE

Input from:

• Michèle Eisenbarth, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the Council of Europe, Chair of the GR-C
• Lea Meister, European Students Union
• Quentin Reed, Education consultant
• Giorgi Sharvashidze, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education and Science, Georgia
• Jens Vraa-Jensen, Education International

11.20 - 12.30    Presentation of the General Report of the Forum by Tomáš Foltýnek, MENDEL University Brno, General Rapporteur

Inspiration for the future: keynote speech by Bertrand de Speville, Consultant, Former head of the Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong

Jindřich Fryč, Chair, CDPPE, Presentation of the main challenges and expectations of the priorities of work

Closing Remarks

Lukáš Teplý, Department of Strategy and European Affairs, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic