Charles University at the EAIE 2014












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            * Charles University at the EAIE 2014
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            When the EAIE, European Association for International Education decided that the capital c

            Republic, Prague, will be the next host of the EAIE annual conference, following previous 
            Dublin and Istanbul, Charles University was thrilled. EAIE is the largest conference and f
            European higher education, annually visited by several thousand of higher education office

            a great opportunity to introduce and promote the institutions located in the host city of 
            such as it was this September for Charles University in Prague.
            Using this unique occasion, Charles University decided to endorse itself by introducing it

            stand at the EAIE conference fair in Prague Congress Centre. Most of the other Czech unive
            are traditionally part of the common stand Study in the Czech Republic, were direct neighb

            Charles University’s promotion area. This arrangement made it easy for the visitors of the
            to find their Czech partners and specifically the stand of Charles University in the confe
            effortlessly.  

            Charles University also took the opportunity to invite the conference visitors to its prem
            the conference. With the cooperation with the EAIE, a Campus Tour was prepared for the fir
            conference, Tuesday 16th September, which was visited by 92 representatives of universitie

            higher education institutions from all around the globe. The participants visited the hist
            of Charles University in the Old Town of Prague as well as one of our mini campuses, campu
            the seat of 3 CU schools – First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Ma

            and Physics. The Rector of Charles University, Professor Tomáš Zima, invited another 170 d
            guests to a reception held in the historical seat of Charles University, the Carolinum, on
            conference fair opening.

            The EAIE conference fair took place in Prague Congress Centre from Wednesday 17th to Frida
            becoming a huge success with a record number of over 5000 participants. Aside of the fair 
            exhibition stands, a broad offer of workshops and sessions with higher education topics wa

            participants, taking place from Tuesday 16th until Friday 19th September. The topics were 
            of them truly intriguing, chaired by leading personalities from the higher education secto
            A great interest for European educators were no doubt  the sessions introducing or enhanci

            and partnership programmes of the Erasmus+, run by the experts of the European Commission,
            on the Swiss Mobility Programme, which currently substitutes the Erasmus+ in Switzerland. 
            were many other topics to discuss, such as international student recruitment, English curr

            international as well as domestic study programmes, traditional and new internationalizati
            a session on various distance and online study programmes), strategic partnerships, employ
            graduates, changes of the curriculum for the non-mobile students, the effects of the econo

            the higher education, mobility of the university employees, etc., etc.
            Charles University did its best to promote its various English taught programmes, Czech la
            preparatory classes as well as the many options for the students coming for short-term exc

            of one or two semesters, with the Erasmus+ programme or other international student mobili
            All CU schools took turns at the EAIE exhibition stand, providing information service for 
            and possible future partner institutions. Aside from that, the members of the Rectorate’s 

            Office and Information, Advisory and Social Centre took part in the whole EAIE exhibition,
            CU stand’s visitors with the general information on Charles University and details of the 
            possibilities for students and staff members alike.