The quality of education is an aggregate result of complementary forces ranging from society and business to academia. Fostering strong partnerships among different stakeholders (i.e., individuals, companies, institutions, communities, etc.) has gained momentum as a prerequisite of value co-creation within the wider ecosystem. This is why a discussion on quality education should take into account all these layers and should attach the proper importance to each of them:
“Bridging Society, Business, and Academia for Quality Education” is the name of the Masterclass that took place on the 20th of October, that was organized by the team of the CNFIS-FDI-2022-0051 project “Academic Excellence”, and was addressed to teachers, lectors, assistants, and PhD students, both from the Faculty of Management or from other faculties that are part of SNSPA.
The workshop had 3 speakers, including Edoardo Campanella (Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Research), Florina Pînzaru (Dean of the Faculty of Management, SNSPA), and Beáta Fehérvölgyi (Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pannonia, Hungary). They addressed the importance of promoting partnerships between individuals, companies, institutions, and the community. Thus, it was highlighted how society can provide a context conducive to the development of quality educational programs, how companies can support such a context, and how there can be built a bridge between the private and the public sector through which doors can open for students` future careers. Moreover, the concept of partnerships between actors and the methods of measuring results was defined, and at the end of the Masterclass, there was carried out an exchange of good practices, underlining the need of becoming more digital and how to capture students` attention.
The workshop ended with a series of questions and answers.
Report by Mădălina Stratone, PhD Candidate, SNSPA
