Panel Discussion
(Inter)national Perspectives on Who is in the Lead in de Digital Transformation in Higher Education?
Date Friday, Dec 5 Time – Room: Potsdam I
This session provides a cross-country view on the digital transformation of higher education. Speakers will focus on governance structures and efforts to achieve sustainable structural change at a national level, drawing on practical experiences from Europe. The session invites reflection on how higher education systems are organised, how national programmes can drive structural change, and how autonomy and decision-making shape transformation.
Judith Huisman
Secretary of the Steering Committee , Npuls
Judith is the general secretary of Npuls - the national cooperation program for transforming tertiary education in the Netherlands. As such, she is involved in fostering a culture of inter-institutional cooperation in the Netherlands and the new questions this poses to national and institutional policy.
She has worked as a policy advisor on innovation and (practice-oriented) research in higher education on a national level since 2016. She was involved in the Npuls program since it was a drafted proposal for a grant from the Dutch National Growth Fund. She strongly believes in the power of cooperating and peer-learning, in order to improve the learning experience for (life long) learners.
Gerdinand Bosch
Programme Director, Npuls
Gerdinand Bosch is the program director at Npuls. In his role as program director, Gerdinand is responsible for the central organization of the program and is responsible for the quality of the results of the Npuls.
Oliver Janoschka
Managing Director, German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age
Oliver Janoschka has served as managing director of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age, abbreviated: HFD) since its inception in 2014.
Before founding HFD, Janoschka worked in the field of higher education in various European Member States for more than seven years. He has a proven track record of facilitating international policy projects, serving for example as director of projects for the European Association on Lifelong Learning in Higher Education (EUCEN) in Barcelona and Brussels and as lecturer and project coordinator for the Bosch Foundation in the Western Balkans. He holds a master’s degree in educational management, sociology and psychology from the University of Hamburg.