Date: 29 March 2019
Time: 9:30 – 18:00
Venue: Estonian art museum KUMU, Weizenbergi 34/ Valge 1, Tallinn
Language: English, Estonian (Simultaneous Interpretation)

• March 29

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  Registration, coffee & tea

  9.30

  Moderator: Tiit Tammaru, Professor of the University of Tartu, Academician

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  Welcome notes

  10.00

  • Christer Haglund, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers´ Office in Estonia
  • Katri Raik, Minister of the Interior of Estonia 

• Keynote I: Higher Education in English at National University: for Whom and for What?

  10.20

  • Aune Valk, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Tartu

• Keynote II: Future Global Migration Trends

  10.40

  • Tuomas Martikainen, Director of the Migration Institute of Finland
    

• Questions, discussion

  11.00

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  Coffee Break

  11.10

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  I Attracting International Students to the Nordic-Baltic Region

  Moderator: Aune Valk, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Tartu

• Study Migration in Estonia – Opportunities and Challenges

  11.40

  • Birgit Lüüs, Ministry of Interior Deputy Head of Department of Citizenship and Migration Policy

• Trends in International Student Migration and Integration in Finland

  12.00

  • Irma Garam, Senior Adviser, Finnish National Agency for Education. Information and Analysis

• Recruitment and Retention of Foreign Students in Sweden. Rationales, Trends, Barriers and Opportunities

  12:20

  • André Bryntesson, Research Assistant, Uppsala University
    

• International Students in Estonia 2018/2019. Facts and Figures

  12:40

  • Eero Loonurm, Head of International Marketing, Archimedes Foundation

• Questions, discussion

  13.00

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  Lunch

  13:10

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  II Best Practices from Europe in Facilitating the Transfer of International Students from Higher Education to the Labour Market

  Moderator: Marion Pajumets, Estonian Contact Point of the European Migration Network, Tallinn University

• Challenges and Best Practices in Retention from the EMN 2018 Study on Attracting and Retaining Third Country National Students

  14.10

  • Norma Rose, consultant, European Migration Network Service Provider (ICF)

• Panel discussion: The State of Art International Student Retention Measures in Europe

  14.30

  Moderator: Eero Loonurm, Head of Study in Estonia, Archimedes Foundation

  • Mari Taverne, Head of Talent Attraction and Migration, City of Tampere, Finland
    
  • Katri Kuuse, Head of Human Resources, Ericsson Eesti AS
  • Theda Minthe, Head of Science City Hannover, City of Hannover, Lord Mayors’s Office, Germany
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  Coffee Break

  15:40

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  III Education as a Driver for Integration

  Moderator: Tiit Tammaru, Professor of the University of Tartu, Academician

• The Role of Education in Integration Processes

  16.10

  • Piret Hartman, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Undersecretary for Cultural Diversity

• Integrated Estonian School and Related Expectations for Teacher Education

  16.30

  • Margus Pedaste, Professor of the University of Tartu, Head of the Pedagogicum and Centre for Educational Technology
  • Laura Kirss, University of Tartu, Centre for Teacher Education and Higher Education, RITA project

• Questions, discussion

  16.50

• Concluding remarks by the moderator

  17.00

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  Reception

  17.10