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44 Paper Abstracts—In Alphabetical Order of Presenters
A STUDY OF STUDENT-ORIENTED AND TALENT-EDUCATED
“PACKAGE”
JIA HONGYAN, YIBIN LIAO *
Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China
*Shijiazhuang University of Economics, Shijiazhuang, China
ABSTRACT
In the rapidly developing modern society, university students who are
faced with the challenges of the society and life become aware that it
is inadequate for them to have only book knowledge obtained at university
for their career life, and their professional competence acquired
at school is really limited for their employment or career development.
This paper argues that fostering students’ professional competence at
university should focus on their professional comprehensive competence,
taking the needs of both students and the society into consideration.
Based on the professional core quality model and 4 classifications
of work posts, this paper attempts to discuss and design a talenteducated
“package”, which is believed very necessary. Meanwhile it
emphasizes that it is of importance for the university to reform current
education concepts, content and methodology so as to offer a forceful
resource platform for the smooth implementation of the “package”.
INTERCULTURAL INNOVATION INSIGHT WORKSHOPS
BRYAN TEMPLE, PHILIP ORME, MIRJA KÄLVIÄINEN¹, MERVI
KURULA, TOMMI SILVAN¹, COSTAS MANTZALOS², EMIL
HORKݳ, MICHAL STOKLASA³, PAULINO SILVA⁴, RUI FILIPE
PEREIRA BERTUZI DA SILVA⁴
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
¹North Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Joensuu, Finland
²Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus
³Silesian University in Opava, Karvina, Czech Republic
⁴Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
ABSTRACT
A two-week international workshop was held in Finland during February
2010 and again in Glasgow in February 2011. Entitled
“Intercultural Innovation Insight Workshop” (3EYES), they were
sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme. Students
from Portugal, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland and the United
Kingdom were placed in multi-cultural teams of five. Each team had
two product designers, one graphic designer, one financial and one
marketing student. They were set the task to devise new product
ideas for a local company and they had two weeks within which to
do it. These intensive workshops comprised lectures and practical
tutorials as well as ideation sessions for the new product ideas and
represent one way in which international issues may be appreciated
and accommodated. This paper will compare the two events and
discuss issues of social responsiveness, shared goals and identity
and draw conclusions on the suitability and sustainability of this form
of activity.