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We warmly invite you to participate in the Living Lab activities of the Horizon Europe project:
📍NEXT-UP: Navigating the Next Normal – Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Youth’s Education–Employment Transitions in Post-COVID-19 Europe.

📍The Next-UP Living Lab, coordinated by Tampere University, serves as a mediating space for collaborative innovation. Through interactive workshops (e.g., World Café, Foresight Game, Policy Co-design), it facilitates dialogue among youth, educators and career services, employers and HR professionals, policy-makers and public officials, and youth-focused NGOs.

Below you can register for the
📍 Hybrid-mode Living Lab Kickoff Workshop: Tampere (Finland) & Online
📍 Join the NEXT-UP Living Lab Stakeholder Pool - Becoming part of a vibrant network contributing to 5 co-creation workshops and ongoing feedback across the project lifecycle

Invitation to Next-UP Living Lab kick-off, [November, 3 at 11.00-13.00, EET] | Next-UP | Tampere Universities We warmly invite you to participate in the Living Lab activities of the Horizon Europe project: 📍NEXT-UP: Navigating the Next Normal – Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Youth’s Education–Employment Transitions in Post-COVID-19 Europe. The project aims to understand the long-term impacts of...

Excited to announce the launch of our Horizon Europe Project, led by the Principal Investigator Dr. Yuzhuo Cai—NEXT-UP: Navigating the Next Normal: Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Youth’s Education-Employment Transitions in Post-COVID-19 Europe .
This project brings together 11 outstanding partners from 9 European countries, united by a shared commitment to addressing this crucial and timely issue.
Over the next 3.5 years, we look forward to collaborating with this exceptional team to explore innovative solutions and generate meaningful insights for Europe's next generation. Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this exciting journey!

HEG webpages are now under updates after a while of being in the state of "hibernation". Please follow our activities at

Higher Education Group | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö Higher Education Group (HEG) on Tampereen yliopiston johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunnan hallintotieteiden yksikössä toimiva ryhmä, joka keskittyy korkeakouluhallinnon ja -johtamisen koulutukseen ja...

Welcome to the Workshop: China’s Perceptions and Strategies on Higher Education Cooperation with Europe [August, 30, hybrid event]

Workshop: China’s Perceptions and Strategies on Higher Education Cooperation with Europe [August, 30, hybrid event] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the workshop co-organised by the Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre, JoLii, and the Global Research Institute for Finnish Education at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Good news no. 2! It took us a year to prepare the proposal, 3 onsite meetings with 10 partners and countless online meetings and email exchanges. And we finally got it funded ... the Horizon Europe project!

The NEXT-UP project is a transformative initiative aimed at exploring and forecasting the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on youth transitions from education to employment. The project, coordinated by Dr. Yuzhuo Cai, will span 3.5 years and involve a consortium of prominent academic and NGO partners from nine EU countries.

The good news started to pour at HEG yesterday!

The guru of Graduate employability research prof Michael Thomlinson is visiting us on May, 21 with a guest lecture! Welcome at 11.00 onsite or online:

Reframing the graduate work readiness challenge: changing conceptions of human capital, value and meaningful work - by Michael Tomlinson [May, 21, hybrid event] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the lecture by the renowned scholar in the field of graduate employability, the father of Graduate Capital Model - prof. Michael Tomlinson, Southampton Education School, University of Southampton

We are back with e-lectures on Organisation and Management in Higher Education. Save the date: April, 10 at 13.00 to join Barbara Sporn's presentation. Registration->

Revisiting Adaptation: The Role of Impact, Quality, and Sustainability in Shaping the Future of Universities - e-lecture, [April, 10] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the 12th lecture of Peking-Tampere Lecture series on Organisation and Management in Higher Education!

Welcome to Tampere Workshop: Rethinking the Relationship between Higher Education and Society in a Rapidly Changing World, [17, August] - a good opportunity to network with colleagues from China and Hong Kong.
Registration by August, 10:
https://research.tuni.fi/sferc/uncategorized/workshop-in-tampere-rethinking-the-relationship-between-higher-education-and-society-in-a-rapidly-changing-world-17-august/

Multiple Competitions in Higher Education, e-lecture by Prof. Georg Krücken, [on May, 16]

Multiple Competitions in Higher Education, e-lecture by Prof. Georg Krücken, [May, 16] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the 11th lecture of Peking-Tampere Lecture series on Organisation and Management in Higher Education!

https://research.tuni.fi/sferc/uncategorized/11th-gintl-jolii-webinar-reforms-on-higher-education-admissions-in-china-and-finland-march-15/ -If you are interested in reforms of HE admissions

11th GINTL/JoLii webinar: Reforms on higher education admissions in China and Finland, [March, 15] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the 11th webinar of the series ‘Dialogues on education and society’! While university admission decisions impact the educational experiences and labor market outcomes for millions of students each year, the best method to determine admissions has been vigorously debated by academics a...

https://research.tuni.fi/sferc/uncategorized/10th-gintl-jolii-webinar-opportunities-and-challenges-of-artificial-intelligence-for-higher-education-pedagogy-february-28/

10th GINTL-JoLii webinar: Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence for higher education pedagogy, [February, 28] | Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre | Tampere Universities Welcome to the 10th webinar of the series ‘Dialogues on education and society’! Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise higher education. However, its implementation also poses significant challenges, such as ethical concerns, privacy issues, and the need for faculty and ...