The Euroregion Neisse/Nisa/Nysa gets an Autumn School
The three years' presidency of IHI's director Prof. Thorsten Claus in the Academic Coordination Centre of the Euroregion Neisse/Nisa/Nysa (ACC ERN) finds an aim in a newly established Autumn School of the ACC ERN, scheduled for 2023. This was an agreement of ACC's meeting on March 31st 2022 at Jelenia Góra, Poland.
ACC brings together the universites of the Euroregion Neisse/Nisa/Nysa. Alongside with the IHI Zittau, this covers the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in the German side, the Czech TU Liberec (where the ACC office, lead by Dr. Helena Neumannová is located) as well as Wrocław University of Business and Economics' Annex and the Karkonosze University of Applied Sciences, both located in Jelenia Góra, Poland.
Every three years, ACC presidency is taken over by a Polish, Czech and German representative of the partner universities in turn. With Prof. Claus's 2021-2023 presidency- IHI Zittau leads ACC for the first time.
Main activities of ACC so far are the coordination of bi- and trinational project of the partners, the publishing of the ACC Journal and the annual Young Scientists' Conference at Jelenia Góra.
As soon as Covid-dominated time conditions allowed it, Prof. Claus initiated in 2021 a revaluation and possibly relaunch of ACC activities, inviting to strategy workshops. In September 2021 in Liberec, some central issues were identified, which were now further elaborated and transformed into concrete working packages.
A central project is the establishing of a Euroregional Autumn School for master students of all three countries, which should be integrated into the curriculars of the partner universities and graded with ECTS.
As a general topic of that first edition, coordinated by IHI's Prof. Remmer Sassen, was identified "Transformation - ecological, economic, social and cultural change and how it could/should be managed".
The Autumn School shall also be linked with a market place of possibilites to bring together students and enterprises of the Euroregion.
Now, a trinational orgteam starts to work out organisational and financial details...