Heads of University Management & Administration Network in Europe

HUMANE Study Visit Europe

The Paris-Saclay Initiative: Vision, Strategy and Achievements

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKER

16:30

Registration and welcome coffee

17:00

Welcome and Introduction

  • Alex Pellacani, HUMANE President; Director General, University of Trento, IT
  • Nadine Burquel, Director General and Winter School Director, HUMANE, BE
  • Vincent Jolys, Director General of Services, Centrale Supélec, FR
  • Aurelia Carré de Lusancay, Director General of Services, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, FR

17:15

The Paris-Saclay initiative: the academic project  

Claude Chappert, Director Campus Paris-Saclay Foundation, FR

18:00

The Paris-Saclay initiative: the French government spatial and land policy project

Jérémy Herve, Director of Innovation and Economic Development, EPA Paris-Saclay, FR

19:00

Dinner

Thursday, 10 April, 2025

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKER

09:00

The vision and the strategy for Paris-Saclay

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Paris-Saclay: A major change management project: organisational cultural transformation in participating universities and schools?

Solange Chavel, CEO, Siris Academic, FR

11:30

Clustering public/private research excellence: challenges, opportunities and successes

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Successful examples: Joint doctoral schools, interdisciplinary initiatives, Graduate school

Sylvie Pommier, Doctoral coordinator for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, FR

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Visit Paris-Saclay Plateau

19:00

Dinner

Friday, 11 April, 2025

TIME

SESSION

SPEAKER

09:00

The ambitions and the implementation: a balancing act to integrate universities, French Grandes Ecoles, research and other organisations with different profiles and strategies

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Addressing together crucial issues: achievements and limitations

Isabelle Demachy, Vice-President, Academic affairs, Paris-Saclay University

12:00

Student life (housing, medical centre, sport facilities, language centre, learning centre, etc.)

12:45

Final words/close of the Study Visit

Camille Galap, President, Paris-Saclay University, FR; Nadine Burquel, Director General, HUMANE, BE

13:00

Closing Lunch

Please note that this programme may be subject to marginal change.

Study Visit Europe Programme Committee:

Aurelia Carré de Lusancay, Directeur General of Services, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Vincent Jolys, Director General of Services, CentraleSupélec

Cécile Chicoye, ADGS

Important information:

Neither HUMANE nor the Paris-Saclay University are liable for any losses, accidents or damage to persons or objects during the HUMANE Study Visit. Participants attending the HUMANE Study Visit do so at their own risk and responsibility.