Press Releases

Now the Europaeum, a group of ten leading European universities, with its headquarters in Oxford, is to stage a major conference at the Said Business School to discuss not only how companies are regulated across national borders but also, in the light of such scandals as Enron, how companies are run in different countries, attitudes to corruption, etc.

The academies of the future will do one thing we do not do today. They will teach the art of self-discovery. There is nothing more fundamental in education.

We turn out students from our universities who know how to give answers, but not how to ask questions. The wisdom centres in our culture do not reach our students. They leave universities with skills for the workplace but no knowledge of how to live, or what living is for.

Four new policy reports are to be unveiled at an international conference Future of European Universities, New Times: New Responsibilities, in Paris at the weekend as part of an international investigation into how European universities can operate at the forefront of the Knowledge Revolution. The keynote speech is to be given by M Jack Lang.

This inquiry is being carried out by the Europaeum, an association of leading European universities including Oxford, Bologna, Bonn, Leiden, Geneva and Prague, and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Senior management and government cannot function effectively withoutunderstanding the political, social, cultural, historical and economiccontext of the markets they operate in.

This is the special premise behind the new Leiden-OxfordLeadership Programme, born out of the growing partnership between twoof the leading European universities. It aims to provide future leadersin industry and government with the tools to operate more effectivelyin the politically, legally and culturally complex system of Europe.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chad Frischmann
Office: 01865284480, chad.frischmann@europaeum.ox.ac.uk

Conference: SOCIAL COHESION – THE OXFORD PARADIGM
At: The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford

The accouncement was made at the Univeristy of Helsinki, at the Council Meeting of the Europaeum, an association of leading European Universities, on June 17th.

The scholarship scheme, which honours the lifelong devotion of the former President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, is linked to the Europaeum, which Roy Jenkins helped to found in the 1990s to help academics, intellectuals and young scholars bridge Europe.

The overall inquiry takes the form of three international expert conferences, to be held over the next two years the first in Berlin last December, second at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in September when the reports will be discussed and a final event at the University of Bonn next Spring. The study is being supported by the German company DaimlerChrysler Services AG, which is based in Berlin.

Senior management and government cannot function effectivelywithout understanding the political, social, cultural, historical andeconomic context of the markets in which they operate.

This isthe premise behind the new Leiden-Oxford Leadership Programme, whichhas emerged out of the growing partnership between these two leadingEuropean universities. It aims to provide future leaders in industryand government with the tools to operate more effectively in thepolitically, legally and culturally complex system of Europe.

The scholarship scheme, which honours the lifelong devotion of the former President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, is linked to the Europaeum, which Roy Jenkins helped to found in the 1990s to help academics, intellectuals and young scholars 'bridge Europe'.

Awards are worth £10,000 per annum, usually for one year. Jenkins Scholars from Europaeum universities are eligible to study at Oxford for a Masters degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences, the disciplines closest to Lord