CESAER Annual Meetings 2025

Dedicated website for CAM 2025

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In addition to the detailed event page linked above, you can find an overview of CAM 2025 below.

Registration

Registration for CAM 2025 has now closed. If you have questions regarding the registration, please contact our Operations Manager Indrė Antanavičiūtė.

CAM 2025 highlights

Highlights include:

• High-level conference with inspiring leaders from Europe and beyond focusing on shaping the future of higher education in science and technology — featuring Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (Member of Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu, European Commission), Amitava Mitra (Executive Director of New Engineering Education Transformation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nicolas Peter (Senior Advisor to the Director General of the European Space Agency), and contributions from students, researchers, rectors and presidents of our Members.
• Workshop on navigating challenges and opportunities in responsible internationalisation with contributions from senior officials of the Government of Czech Republic, several invited case studies from across our Members and focused small group discussions to address challenges and explore solutions from the institutional perspective to real-life cases.
• High-level roundtable on governance and strategic vision of European Universities alliances featuring invited representatives from European Commission and the European University Association, together with leaders and student representative from across Members.
• Exclusive leadership track ‘Competitive by design: Leadership in STEM from lab to global impact’ at Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno hosted by CEO Petr Střelec together with Ladislav Janíček (Rector of Brno University of Technology), featuring an executive tour of Europe’s electron microscopy hub followed by high-level discussions with senior industry representatives and leaders from MIT, Thermo Fisher, Honeywell, and FabLab Brno.
• General Assembly, including elections of our next Board and President, and key discussions and decisions on our association’s Strategy 2030. Join us to elect our next leadership team and set the course for the decade ahead.
• Welcome reception at the one-of-a-kind Brno Observatory and Planetarium and conference dinner at the exceptional Grand Passage Ballroom of the historical Hotel Passage.

DAY 1 - Wednesday, 22 October 2025

All timings below are local time Brno.

Cloakroom will be available during the day for luggage and coats

12:00 - 13:00 Informal meetings of task forces:

• Task Force Openness of Science & Technology, Room 2.25
• Task Force Learning & Teaching, Room 1.29  
  
• Task Force Sustainable Funding, Room 2.04 
  

12:30 - 13:00 Arrival and registration - Rector’s office building (Google maps link)

12:30 - 14:00 Networking lunch - Rector’s office building, Rectorate Hall

14:00 - 16:00 Two parallel high-level sessions:

• Workshop on navigating challenges and opportunities in responsible internationalisation - Rector’s Office Building, Room 1.29
• Roundtable discussion on governance and strategic vision of European Universities alliances - Rector’s Office Building, Room 3.03

16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment break - Rector’s office building, Rectorate Hall

16:30 - 18:30 Workshop for Institutional Liaisons - Rector’s office building, Room 1.29

19:00 - 22:00 Welcome reception - Brno Observatory and Planetarium (Google maps link)

DAY 2 - Thursday, 23 October 2025

Cloakroom will be available during the day for luggage and coats.

08:30 - 09:00 Refreshments & welcome of Presidency - Rector’s office building, Rectorate Hall (Google maps link)

09:00 - 10:00 Meeting of Presidency - Rector’s Office Building, Room 1.29

09:00 sharp: Registered participants for leadership track meet at entrance of Rector’s office building (Google maps link) for transfer to leadership track 

09:30 - 13:00 Leadership track (for registered participants only) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Brno Technology Center

10:00 - 13:00 Social programme (dedicated information will be provided directly to registered participants)

10:00 - 10:30 Refreshment break & welcome of Board of Directors - Rector’s office building, Rectorate Hall (Google maps link)

10:30 - 13:30 Meeting of Board of Directors - Rector’s office building, Room 1.29

13:00 - 14:30 Registration & buffet lunch - Rector’s office building (Google maps link)

14:30 - 17:30 High-level conference - Rector’s office building

15:55 - 16:20 Refreshment break

17:30 - 17:45 Photo moment

19:00 - 22:30 Conference dinner - Hotel Passage, Grand Passage Ballroom (Google maps link)

DAY 3 - Friday, 24 October 2025

Cloakroom will be available during the day for luggage and coats.

08:30 - 08:45 Registration for Delegates & refreshments at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Google maps link)

09:00 - 13:30 Thirty-ninth General Assembly (open to all registered participants) - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Hall Q)

13:30 - 14:30 Buffet lunch & networking - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

14:30 - 15:00 Farewells & close of CAM 2025