IUNC North America 2016-The 2nd International Universities Networking Conference + EduAgencyWorkshop

Building the Global HigherEd Community
Event Dates
2016-02-11 - 2016-02-12
Event contact title
Ms.
Event contact first name
Yulia
Event contact last name
Yakovleva
Email
info@iunc.net
Event contact telephone number
+7 495 769 27 39
Description
IUNC Organizing Committee cordially invites you to participate in the 2nd Annual International Universities Networking Conference - IUNC North America 2016 on February 11-12, 2016 in Miami (Florida, USA). IUNC North America 2016 welcomes educators & edu agents from all over the world who have the objective to initiate collaboration or broaden relations with universities and colleges of the USA and Canada. In Miami (Florida, USA) on February 11-12, 2016 the US and Canadian institutions as well as foreign HEIs & edu agents, interested in cooperation, will get together to have a great time among the top-notch professionals and prospective international partners. The IUNC North America 2016 conference will create the opportunities for sharing Int’l HigherEd expertise and professional opinion, exchanging the views and ideas, and, of course, for finding new ways of cooperation. Intensive conference program will give an opportunity to dive into local and global educational trends and keeps posted about latest HE news, changings and possibilities. The US and Canada are the global HigherEd giants with the deepest international engagement. Every year a vast number of international students choose these countries to start or continue their education. The solid partnership relations with Asian and European countries grow stronger every year, providing the non-stop inflow of the inbound students and giving the widest range of choices for outbound students to study abroad. The main distinctive feature of the IUNC North America 2016 is the format of prescheduled one-to-one meetings. Inspired by the best practices in international networking we are offering you a state-of-the-art meeting e-scheduler for making appointments with suitable parties quickly and efficiently. So you can preschedule all your meetings before arriving to the conference. At the conference each participant will get numbered workplace (meeting table) and all your prospective partners will easily find you among others attendees. Participation in IUNC North America 2016 will ultimately increase the number of your international partners. The event will help you to create new connections with worldwide universities, interested in cooperation particularly with your HEI, find well-motivated and reliable edu agents for recruiting students abroad, and make your university more attractive for local students and faculty, providing reach opportunities for international learning, research activities and exchanges. The 8th in series of IUNC events, IUNC North America 2016 will definitely become one of the best networking conferences for establishing university partnerships. We are welcome universities, colleges, languages schools, recruiting agencies and other educational service providers to join us in Miami (FL, USA). The Conference program includes: — Open sessions and seminars on various topics about: trends of international education and latest HE analytics effective ways of cooperation between universities recruitment technologies state scholarship programs — Prescheduled meetings with universities — Campus tour to prospective partner universities — Networking activities The participants will find the following avenues for cooperation at the Conference: Academic exchange of students Faculty exchange Student recruitment Creating joint educational programs Exchange of educational products Joint grant applications
Attendee information
Participation fee from EUR 390 to EUR 990 Special offer for Multi-booking
Future dates
IUNC Latin America 2016 - March 10-11, 2016 IUNC Eurasia 2016 - May 11-13, 2016 IUNC Middle East & Africa 2016 - October 25-26, 2016
Partner Voices
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