Workshops and speakers
Our Fun and Inspiring Workshops
Meet your colleagues at our networking workshops, where you will spend an hour exchanging experiences and discussing the topic that interests you most in your work. As a visitor, you choose to attend one of them. Each workshop takes place at 11:00 AM on Thursday.
Annica Zetterlind– Communications Officer, Malmö University
Crafting clear goals – the key to effective communication
Do you feel that your communication goals are sometimes vague, difficult to measure or just stuck at activity level? Welcome to an inspiring workshop where we will explore together how to set goals that drive both communication and results.
Lykke Thostrup– M.Sc. Communications Officer, Head of Upper Secondary Schools Visits Services, University of Copenhagen
Pre-recruitment and early interest generation
The topic of this workshop is pre-recruitment and early interest generation i.e. visits services for schools (upper and lower secondary) and other visits services aimed at possible future studentsw through school curriculum, festivals etc.
Ulf Mohager
Lagmedlem Tre
Det här teammedlemmen är specialiserad på teknisk expertis och innovativa lösningar.
Jan Boman– Communications officer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Linköping University
The educational Journey, a strategic model
The topic of this session is the Educational Journey model from Linköping University, a framework that maps the student journey from prospective student to alumni. The session will explore how the model can support recruitment, retention, and alumni relations by identifying challenges and opportunities at different stages of the student pathway. Practical examples will be presented, followed by a discussion on how similar models can be applied at other institutions.
Ståle Tvete Vollan– Head of Communications and Public Affairs at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
Internal Communication for changing work behaviour
Changing work behaviour in higher education by communication. Or change work attitudes first?
At this network session about internal communication, we will meet and greet for an hour, hoping for you to get to know each other a little while discussing the internal comms topic that makes a difference in your everyday work. These network sessions are safe spaces; bring yourself, maybe ask questions, and someone will tell you about internal communication efforts, whether they were successful or not.
Odd Vegard Kandal- Wright, Head of Section, Section for Research Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Bergen.
Storytelling
The topic of this workshop is storytelling.
Thurid Eriksson– Communications Director at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.
Communications is not a mailbox
Why leaders should view their communications unit as a strategic asset, not just a support function.
At this network session we will discuss crisis communications, especially when it comes to leadership communication. We will meet and greet for an hour, hoping for you to get to know each other while discussing the topic crisis comms. These network sessions are safe spaces; bring yourself, maybe ask questions, or share your experiences of crisis communication, whether they were successful or not.
Anna- Kaisa Säkkinen– Director of Communications at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Strategic communications
During this workshop we will discuss the key elements of strategic communications and share best practices on how to communicate the value of communications to your internal audiences and how to move from tactical, reactive communications into a more strategic operating mode.
Ásthildur Gunnarsdóttir
Lagmedlem Två
Det här teammedlemmen är känd för sin kreativitet och problemlösningsförmåga.
Björn Gíslason– Manager of Communications and Web Editor at the University of Iceland.
Web and web management
The topic of this workshop is the challenges of web editing and web management at universities.