The Rome conference will cover following themes:

• National and institutional policies in the changing pedagogical landscape
• Empowering universities for excellence in higher education, improving the quality of higher education
• The modernisation agenda for European universities: education for innovation and entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship
• Blended degree education on campus
• Flexible continuing education (incl.CPD) and new types of courses (short learning programmes) to accommodate 25+ students
• Open education (OERs and MOOCs)
• Learning analytics and learning technologies
• Social inclusion and higher education for minorities (refugees, migrants)
• Euro-Mediterranean cooperation