BAUHAUS4EU Interregional Conference
Co-creating the Regions of Tomorrow;
Education, Innovation and Partnership in Practice
The BAUHAUS4EU Interregional Conference brings together partners to share perspectives, explore opportunities and strengthen collaboration across regions. Over three days, the programme focuses on education, innovation and partnerships in practice, with sessions on regional development, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, sustainability and future skills.
Tuesday 13 October
08:00 – 08:30 Registration
Location: J1504 Multisalen, BTH
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Vanja Lindberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization,
- BSK Student Union and PhD Committee
- Adrian Murray, President of Blekinge Student Union
- Nayla Nasir, Doctoral student, BTH
- Elaine Daly, University Lecturer & Doctoral Student, BTH
09:00 – 09:30 “Getting to know each other”
Interactive session for all participants to meet and connect.
09:30 – 10:00 Speed Dating & Swedish fika
10:00 – 11:00 Regional Perspectives and Local Development in Blekinge
- Marcus Fredriksson, Business Developer, Karlskrona Municipality
- Erika Augustinsson, Innovation Strategist, Region Blekinge
- Andreas Larsson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships, BTH
11:00 – 12:00 Collaboration through Educational Formats
- Facilitators: Noémie Rousset and Katja Zimmer
Regional Living Labs (RLLS)
The City, the University, and the Common Good
- Claudio Cecchinelli, Municipality of Bergamo, UNESCO Office
- Stefano Morisini, Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Foreign Cultures, UNIBG
Gjirokastra UNESCO Heritage Restoration Camp
- Keti HOXHA, Researcher and lecturer in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, POLIS
Education for Inclusive Regions and Sustainable Societies
- Jake Murdoch, Professor, Department of educational studies, UPJV
- Luís Quinta-Nova, Professor, Agrarian School, UPCB
- Lisa Wälitalo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, BTH
BAUHAUS4EU Climate Fresk Hackathon: Understanding Climate Change Through Collaborative Learning
- Ilda Rusi, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design, POLIS
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch at Bistro J ( Group photo)
13:15 – 15:00 Regional Partners: Regions, challenges and opportunities alignment
- Facilitators: Elias Flory and Katja Zimmer
Location: J1504 Multisalen, BTH
13:15 – 14:15 Parallel session for educational coordinators and WP6 and WP7 (hybrid)
Course catalogue, certificate overview and communicating educational offers
Location: Lövsalen H313 (hybrid session), BTH
14:15 – 16:00 Parallel session for WP6
Making an Inventory of existing micro-credentials across institutions (round 2)
Location: H313 Lövsalen, BTH
15:00 – 15:30 Swedish Fika and Celebration of Erasmus Days
15:30 – 16:30 Working with Regional Partners through Network: Inspiration + Workshop
Regional Partners, WP7, WP9 and Task 6.4
- Matilda Håkansson, BTH Innovation Office
- Kennet Henningsson, BTH Innovation Office
- Martin Svensson, Associate professor, Department of Industrial economics
Location: J1504 Multisalen, BTH
15:30 – 16:30 Parallel session for IPCs
MT planning session on the upcoming reports and deliverables
Location: J1270, BAUHAUS4EU, BTH
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel session WP6, Milestone report review session WP6
Location: Lövsalen H313, BTH
17:00 – 18:00 City Tour: World Heritage and the History of Karlskrona
Meeting point: Main square – Stortorget, on Trossö, by the statue of King Karl XI
19:00 Dinner at Blomlövs Rökeri.
Wednesday 14 October
08:30 – 09:00 Opening session
- Henric Johnson, Vice-Chancellor
- Martin Andersson, Professor, Department of Industrial Economics and Dean of Faculty of Engineering
Location: G340, BTH
09:00 – 10:00 Entrepreneurship and innovation beyond start up - Student Case + Workshop
Regional Partners, WP7, WP9 and Task 6.4
- Matilda Håkansson, BTH Innovation Office
- Kennet Henningsson, BTH Innovation Office
- Martin Svensson, Associate professor, Department of Industrial Economics
Location: H313 Lövsalen, BTH
09:00 – 10:00 Parallel session IPCs and Task 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3
Sharing Innovative Education across Universities – insights from the Weimar Lernwerkstatt.
- Ronny Schüler, Professor, Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik, BUW
Location: G312, BTH
10:00 – 10:30 Swedish fika
10:30 – 11:30 Multistakeholder conversations
Regional Partners, WP7, WP9 and Task 6.4
- Jimmie Andersén, University Lecturer, Department of Spatial Planning, BTH
Location: H313 Lövsalen, BTH
10:30 – 11:30 Parallel session for IPCs and Task 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3
- Facilitator: Tonia A. Schmitz
Leadership Development across BAUHAUS4EU – insights from essence2lead
- Beate Haltmeyer-Forstner – Head of Human Resources Department, BUW
AdMINT – Internationalising University Administration
- Petra Beyer – Staff Development Officer, BUW
Location: G312, BTH
11:30 – 12:00 World Heritage Council
Regional Partners, WP7 and WP9
- Elena Peverada, World Heritage Coordinator, Karlskrona Municipality
Location: H313 Lövsalen, BTH
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel session for IPCs and WP6 (Task 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4)
Making WP6 funding available for micro-credential Development/Presentation of proposed micro-credentials list
- Facilitators: Henrike Kühnlenz, Zaryab Chaudhry, Tonia A. Schmitz
Location: G312, BTH
12:00 – 13:00 RePlanET: Exploring synergies between regional planning and sustainable energy transition
Regional Partners, WP7 and WP9
- Sabrina Fredin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spatial Planning, BTH
- Robert Hedman, Energy Strategist, Region Blekinge
- Linus Johnson, regional Spatial Planner, Region Östergötland
Location: H313 Lövsalen, BTH
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel tracks for Interregional conference participants
Track I - Emerging Technologies - Resilience and Sustainability in Practice
Location: Virtual Productions Lab and Länken, BTH
- From Research to Impact: Co-Creating Regional Resilience through RESIST & DISTURB.
- Marco Bertoni, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BTH
- Johan Nilsson, Project Manager, Regional Growth, Region Blekinge
- Agricultural Weed Detection with Drones and Artificial Intelligence
- Saleh Javadi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, BTH.
- BTH Research and Education Clinic, Health Department
- Health Technology Research Lab”,
- "Clinical Trials Unit” and "Health Education Lab (+ Student-led clinic)
- Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Professor, Head of BTH Research and Education clinic, Department of Health, BTH
- Filippa Stenberg, PhD-student, University lecturer, Partnership Manager, Department of Health, BTH
- Benjamin Grossmann, Senior lecturer, Head of Health Education Lab / International coordinator, Department of Health, BTH.
Track II - Future Skills and Collaboration for Sustainable Regions
Showcasing collaboration projects between BTH and regional partners.
Location: G410 Learning Lab and Ericsson Space Lab, BTH
- Ericsson Space Lab at BTH: Academia-Industry Collaboration
- Anna Eriksson, Coordinator, Education and Research Projects, Department of Software Engineering, BTH.
- Stefan Wilke, Program Manager Innovation & Research, Ericsson
- Jonas Svegland, PRAISE, Ericsson Space Lab, Department of Software Engineering, BTH
- The How for Sustainable Regions: Creating Direction, Agency and Action Viable Cities and D-Green
- Lisa Wälitalo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, BTH
- Cecilia Bratt, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies, Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, BTH
- Dana Bergman, University Lecturer, Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, BTH
- Climate-neutral Karlskrona Network Representatives
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel track for WP6
Track III: Micro-credential request and development and other topics
Location: J1360
- Moderator: Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol
16:00 – 17:00 Dissemination and Impact for WP7 and WP9 contributors
- Facilitators: Noémie Rousset and Katja Zimmer
Location: J1270, BAUHAUS4EU, BTH
16:00 – 17:00 Parallel session IPCs and WP6
- Presentation of the first BAUHAUS4EU language course, Start German
- Dr. Ulrike Garde, Head of the Language Centre / Centre for Language and Cultural Learning, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Location: J1360, BTH
19:00 Dinner at The Naval Officers’ Club Restaurant (Sjöofficersmässen)
Thursday 15 October
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome
Location: MaX, Saltö. Location outside campus
09:00 – 10:00 From Knowledge to Capability: The Partnership between BTH and The Swedish Navy
- Jenny Elfsberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Emerging Technologies, BTH
- Andreas Nilsson, Head of Research Section, Swedish Naval Warfare Centre.
10:00 – 11.30 Synthesizing Conversations and Opportunities (+ FIKA)
- Facilitators: Prune Antier, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol and Andre Benaim
11:30 – 12:00 Summarizing the Interregional Conference
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Parallel sessions for WP6
- WP6 Staff Week wrap-up & next steps
Location: Stora Lokalen, MaX Saltö
- Task 9.2 Working Session
Location: Stora Lokalen, MaX Saltö
- WP7 Working session on the deliverable and next EBC Call
Location: Känsö, MaX Saltö
- IPCs meeting on annual reporting
Location: Berga, MaX Saltö
14:30 – 15:00 Swedish FIKA
15:00 – 16:00 Regional coordinators meeting
- Facilitator: Prune Antier
Location: Stora Lokalen, MaX Saltö
WP6 Staff Week
Micro credentials, intercultural competencies and future skills for all.
Program for WP 6 Staff week
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
09:30 Welcome by Vice Chancellor Henric J.
Location: G – House, Room G312
Moderator: Viroj
10:30 Fika
10:45 Internal WP6 Meeting
Moderator: Viroj & Kennet
12:00 Lunch at Villa Oscar
13:30 T6.4 Survey presentation; Comparing methodologies for
micro-credential development across institutions
Location: G – House, Room G312
Moderator: Daniela
15:30 Fika
15:45 Making an Inventory of Existing Micro-Credentials
Across Institutions (round 1)/Task Meeting
Moderator: Prune
18:30 Dinner (own expense)
Location: Ristorante Italiano
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
08:00 Registration
Location: J1504 Multisalen, BTH
08:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Vanja Lindberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization,
• BSK Student Union and PhD Committee
o Adrian Murray, President of Blekinge Student Union
o Nayla Nasir, Doctoral student, BTH
o Elaine Daly, University Lecturer & Doctoral Student, BTH
09:00 “Getting to know each other”
09:30 Speed Dating & Swedish fika
10:00 Regional Perspectives and Local Development in Blekinge
• Marcus Fredriksson, Business Developer, Karlskrona Municipality
• Erika Augustinsson, Innovation Strategist, Region Blekinge
• Andreas Larsson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships, BTH
11:00 Collaboration through Educational Formats
• Facilitators: Noémie Rousset and Katja Zimmer
Regional Living Labs (RLLS)
The City, the University, and the Common Good
• Claudio Cecchinelli, Municipality of Bergamo, UNESCO Office
• Stefano Morisini, Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and
Foreign Cultures, UNIBG
Gjirokastra UNESCO Heritage Restoration Camp
• Keti HOXHA, Researcher and lecturer in Architecture, Faculty of
Architecture and Civil Engineering, POLIS
Education for Inclusive Regions and Sustainable Societies
• Jake Murdoch, Professor, Department of educational studies, UPJV
• Luís Quinta-Nova, Professor, Agrarian School, UPCB
• Lisa Wälitalo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic Sustainable
Development, BTH
BAUHAUS4EU Climate Fresk Hackathon: Understanding Climate Change
Through Collaborative Learning
• Ilda Rusi, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design, POLIS
12:00 Lunch at Bistro J
13:15 Parallel session for educational coordinators and WP6 and WP7 (hybrid)
Course catalogue, certificate overview; Communicating Educational Offers:
Strategies and Tools
Location: Lövsalen H313 (hybrid session)
14:15 Making an Inventory of existing micro-credentials across institutions
(round 2)
Location: Lövsalen H313
15:00 Swedish fika and celebration of Erasmus Days
15:30 Working with Regional Partners through Network: Inspiration + Workshop
Regional Partners, WP7, WP9 and Task 6.4
• Matilda Håkansson, BTH Innovation Office
• Kennet Henningsson, BTH Innovation Office
• Martin Svensson, Associate professor, Department of Industrial economics
Location: J1504 Multisalen, BTH
16:00 Parallel session Milestone report review session WP6
Location: Lövsalen H313
17:00 – 18:00 City Tour: World Heritage and the History of Katlskrona
Meeting point: Main square – Stortorget, on Trösso, by the statue of King Karl XI
19:00 Dinner at Blomlövs Rökeri
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER
08:30 Opening session
• Henric Johnson, Vice-Chancellor
• Martin Andersson, Professor, Department of Industrial Economics and Dean
of Faculty of Engineering .
Location: G340
09:00 Entrepreneurship and innovation beyond start up – Student Case + Workshop
(T6.4)
• Matilda Håkansson, BTH Innovation Office
• Kennet Henningsson, BTH Innovation Office
• Martin Svensson, Associate professor, Department of Industrial economics
Location: Lövsalen H313
09:00 Parallel session IPCs and WP6 (T6.1-T6.3)
Sharing Innovative Education across Universities – insights from the Weimar
Lernwerkstatt.
Location: G312
Moderator: Ronny Schüler, Professor, Fakultät Architektur und
Urbanistik, BUW
10:00 Fika
10:30 Multistakeholder conversations
Regional Partners, WP7, WP9 and Task 6.4
• Jimmie Andersén, University Lecturer, Department of Spatial Planning,
BTH
Location: H313 Lövsalen
10:30 Parallel session for IPCs and WP6 (T6.1-T6.3)
• Facilitator: Tonia A. Schmitz
Leadership Development across BAUHAUS4EU – insights from
essence2lead
• Beate Haltmeyer-Forstner – Head of Human Resources Department, BUW
AdMINT – Internationalising University Administration
• Petra Beyer – Staff Development Officer, BUW
Location: G3125
11:30 Parallel session (T6.1-T6.4)
• Making WP6 funding available for micro-credential Development;
Presentation of proposed micro-credential list
Location: G312
Moderator: Henrike Kühnlenz, Zaryab Chaudhry, Tonia A. Schmitz
13:00 Lunch at Bistro J
14:00 Parallel track for WP6
Micro-credential request and development and other topics
Location: J1360
Moderator: Viroj
16:00 Parallel session IPCs and WP6
Presentation of the first BAUHAUS4EU language course, Start German
Location: J1360
Moderator: Dr. Ulrike Garde, Head of the Language Centre / Centre for
Language and Cultural Learning, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
19:00 Dinner at The Naval Officers’ Club (Sjöofficersällskapets Restaurang)
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
08:30 Welcome
Location: The Swedish Navy's Experimental Office (MaX), Saltö
Moderator: BTH
09:00 From Knowledge to Capability: The Partnership between BTH and the
Swedish Navy
Moderator: Swedish Naval Warfare Centre & BTH
• Jenny Elfsberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Emerging Technologies,
BTH
• Andreas Nilsson, Head of Research Section, Swedish Naval Warfare
Centre.
10:00 Synthesizing Conversations and Opportunities
Moderator: Prune Antier, et al
11:30 Summarizing the Interregional Workshop
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Staff Week Wrap-up & Next Steps
Location: Stora Lokalen, MaX Saltö
Moderator: Viroj
14:30 Fika