Residential Academic Leadership Course

The course is targeted at middle/senior-level leaders in informatics and related disciplines who have substantive leadership roles. Indicative examples are project leader, group leader, theme leader, or head of an institute, school, faculty, department (or equivalent in your institution); or any other academic leadership service roles.

With this 3-day residential program, you will:

• Appreciate the unique opportunities and challenges of academic leadership;
• Evaluate your own strengths as an academic leader;
• Locate your academic leadership within its wider context;
• Identify and practice simple techniques for helping you to survive and thrive as an academic leader;
• Identify and practice simple techniques to transform your interactions with the people you are leading;
• Integrate evidence-based recommendations with reflection on your and others’ experience with individual, pair, and small-group activities;
• Develop a plan of action for growing as an academic leader;
• Develop strong professional relationships with other participants as the basis for a subsequent ongoing peer-support network.

Additional takeaways from this course are:

• A clearer sense of your own leadership identity and style;
• Strategies for self-care, self-management, life hacks, cognitive hacks, work-life integration, being a good role model;
• An understanding of what makes people tick;
• Strategies for identifying and developing people’s strengths and building a collegial culture;
• Strategies for communicating powerfully through good attention, questions, listening, and dealing with challenging conversations.

All participants of the Academic Leadership Course will receive an Informatics Europe Certificate recognising their participation in the course.

This 3-day course will take place 27 - 30 June 2023, starting with an opening lunch on the first day and completing with a closing lunch on the last day.

Successfully registered participants will receive an email from the facilitators about the detailed agenda and preparation work before the course.

Venue

Registration is closed now.

Places are limited to 18 participants. The registration fee includes the full cost of the seminar, accommodation in single occupancy room for three nights, access to the indoor swimming pool, sauna, and gym, coffee breaks as well as breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets for the days of the seminar (10 meals in total).
Not included: travel costs, alcoholic beverages, drinks at the bar, and additional drinks at lunch and dinner.

The registration fee payment* is due within 14 days from the invoice date. Your registration will only be confirmed upon receipt of your full registration fee payment. 

The course will take place provided a minimum of 12 participants is reached. In the case of course cancellation, the paid registration fee will be reimbursed. All registered participants will receive a course re-confirmation on or before May 19th. We highly recommend our participants book refundable and/or changeable train/flight tickets to avoid hassles due to last-minute changes.

*Please note that the amount of the bank transfer will have to include any bank fee related to the transfer and/or processing.