Young European Research Universities YERUN General Assembly University

Young European Research Universities YERUN General Assembly University of Ulm 26 October 2017

Working Group 5: Promoting graduate employability and business engagement Billy Kelly, Dean of Teaching & Learning, Dublin City University

YERUN WG on Graduate Employability § YERUN members want the network to promote graduate employability and business engagement, and be an advocate for universities delivering high-quality, high-value learning, within the wider setting of Europe’s cultural, social and economic needs. § In order to achieve this, YERUN members will: § Champion the value of research-led education. § Seek ways for our students to benefit from a broader and more diverse educational experience, improving levels of competencies and skills and enhanced employability prospects. § Encourage student enterprise programmes and internships and placements. § Advocate the value of business engagement.

Employability and YERUN § Employability will have different emphases in differing institutional and national contexts § § What should employability mean in the context of a research university? § A European university? § A young university? § Need to develop a shared dimension and focus of employability

Employability and research universities § Employability should go beyond technical knowledge focused on gaining employment § Goal should be to foster students potentially becoming innovators in respect of theoretical knowledge which underlies the development of new techniques § How do we conceptualise employability in our network of research universities? § Develop an agreed meaning/conceptualisation of employability in a YERUN context

Sharing good practice § Review survey completed in 2016 to develop a template to allow us to identify: § Examples of good practice in our institutions that we would like to share with others in the network § Identify areas of good practice that have proved challenging to scale/implement in our institution

Identifying good practice § Are there shared practices we might want to develop? § What models of teaching and learning can best stimulate research/ innovation/entrepreneurship in our students?