Euroculture IP 2023No Europe for the Young?
Euroculture IP 2023 At the IP, we’ll have a unique chance to meet all the consortium students of the 2022-2024 cohort in one place. That’s why we’d like to hold a roundtable with student representatives to get feedback on your first year with Euroculture. The Directors of Studies as well as the coordinators from all eight partner universities will take part in the roundtable on 28 June, 17:00-19:00 (Wednesday) in Olomouc.
We are really interested in knowing more about your Euroculture experience so far, and kindly ask you to actively participate in collecting and sharing any feedback you might have.
We’ll especially be interested in feedback relevant to the Euroculture Consortium as a whole, as opposed to individual universities (as in the first semester, you will be able to evaluate each course of your second semester and the IP itself via an e-survey).
To business: What are the steps that must be undertaken to make your voice heard about your experiences?
At the roundtable, 16 students will be present alongside the staff. Each university will have one representative from the 1st and from the 2nd semester groups. You are requested to get in touch with your 1st semester group as well as your current 2nd semester group. For each group, choose one student who will represent your group from each of your universities.
Please note that any one student can only be representative for one group at a time! We need a total of 16 students present at the roundtable. Submit your choices through this Google Form before Thursday, June 15 at 17:00!
You will not receive further reminders from us about the IP Roundtable, as it is up to you as students to collect feedback by yourselves. Once you have a representative, they may immediately begin collecting feedback.
Get in touch with your first semester group as well as your second semester group via email or other means and collect relevant feedback on the semester you had at the respective university.
This feedback needs to be organized in a so-called ABC format. During the roundtable, you will have color-coded cards on which you will write down ideas on what the Euroculture as a Consortium should Abandon, Begin, or Continue (hence ABC). Abandon refers to negative practices (what should not be done again in the future?), Continue to positive ones (what went well? what did you appreciate?), and Begin is about proposing new solutions or practices to the Consortium.
Your feedback should be prepared and ready before the roundtable takes place, but does not need to be submitted to us in advance of the meeting!
After collecting ABC feedback from the group, representatives come to the roundtable in Olomoux. The roundtable will be held in two stages, a detailed description of which is to be found in the attachment. Read it carefully, especially if you are the representative of your 1st or 2nd semester group.
Please note: student representatives should be actually voicing opinions of the entire group, and not just their personal experiences!
After the roundtable, feel free to follow up with your student representative on how the questions raised were tackled, and what suggestions (in the Begin group) were taken on board.
Please note: even though the roundtable will focus on consortium-related issues for the most part, all the feedback brought to the roundtable will be made record of and will be addressed, if and where possible, either on the local or on the Consortium level.
Please see the attached description of the roundtable and don’t hesitate to contact us in case of any questions.
We look forward to receiving the names of your representatives as well as to getting feedback from you. It really helps us to make the program better and also to continue our best practices!
Tentative timeframe: 30 minutes
In the first part, we have eight bulletin boards (one for each partner university). At each board, there is a small group of people: two student representatives from a partner university (one per semester) meet with one representative of “their” university, and one representative of another partner university (=impartial member). The student representatives do an ABC evaluation of “their” university based on the feedback collected from their groups. With red, yellow and green cards, they indicate what the program should Abandon, Begin, or Continue (Abandon: Negative practices / Begin: New ideas to consider implementing / Continue: Positive practices to keep on doing).
These small discussion groups then determine which issues can be dealt with locally at this partner university, and which issues should be debated further in the larger roundtable for the consortium. The four people in the small group have to unanimously agree that an issue is purely “local”, so even if just one of the participants wants to discuss an issue at the consortium level, the issue is transferred to the second stage of the roundtable.
There will be a photo protocol of all ABC cards handed in during the roundtable, so even though the roundtable will focus on consortium-related issues, all the feedback brought to the roundtable will recorded and addressed, if and where possible, either on the local or on the consortium level.
Tentative timeframe: 60 minutes
In the second part, the groups bring all the cards that they think are relevant for the whole consortium to the open floor discussion with a common ‘bulletin board’. We then group these cards according to similar topics on the board and discuss the topics in turn with the entire consortium.
There will be a photo protocol of all ABC cards handed in.
Please note: student representatives should be actually voicing opinions of the entire group, and not just their personal experiences.
We believe the roundtable format will help us to: