The APIKS-Conference Krems 2023 is scheduled in between the CHER 2023 conference in Vienna, and the EAIR Forum 2023 in Linz.

The conference will be held as a hybrid event. For participants presenting a paper as well as online participants the conference will be free of charge. For on-site participants without an active role in the conference, we will charge a fee of € 150.- for full board. 

15:00 – 17:30 WELCOME/Arrival and registration
15:30 – 17:15 Pre-Conference Workshop on the Future of APIKS
                      (APIKS-Members only)
17:30 – 17:45 Opening ceremony
                          Attila Pausits
                          Friedrich Faulhammer
                          Mónica Marquina
17:45 – 18:30 Panel Discussion on the conference theme
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

09:00 – 09:30 Coffee and arrival
09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Paper Session 1

Session 1/1: Societal Engagement | Chair: Franziska Lessky
 

• Two sides of academic engagement? Institutional discourses and academics behaviours in knowledge society
  Teresa Carvalho, Ana I. Melo, Anabela Queirós, Sara Diogo (Universidade de Aveiro)
   
• Academics’ Societal Engagement in Switzerland and Austria: A replication study attempt
  Katharina Sommer von Schönberg (ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Corinna Geppert (University for Continuing Education Krems), Attila Pausits (University for Continuing Education Krems), Carole Probst (ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Florian Reisky (University for Continuing Education Krems), Christian Wassmer (ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
   
• Academic reforms and change of knowledge-based institutions
  Timo Aarrevaara (University of Lapland), Ville Tenhunen (University of Helsinki), Paula Tulppo (University of Lapland)

Session 1/2: Governance and Management | Chair: Glen Jones
 

• The changing governance and management perceptions in the knowledge-based society – a cross-country comparison of changes over time and by gender
  Alenka Flander (CMEPIUS), Sebastian Kocar (University of Tasmania)
   
• A Comparative Study of Governance and Management of Universities in Four East Asian Countries and Societies: Based on the analysis of Findings of the APIKS Surveys in 2017
  Futao Huang, Yangson Kim (Hiroshima University)
   
• Differences in perception about the competent leadership by the academic profession: Based on the analysis of Findings of the APIKS Surveys in 2017
  Akira Arimoto, Tsukasa Daizen (Hiroshima University)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Paper Session 2

Session 2/1: The changing academic profession | Chair: Magdalena Fellner

• Gender Differences in the Academic Profession in Latin America and Europe: Influence of the role “caring for others”
  Etty Estévez Nenninger, Edgar Oswaldo González Bello (Universidad de Sonora)
   
• Changes in the working conditions of academics in Argentinia and their impact on the satisfaction and stress with the profession
  Mónica Marquina, Cristian Perez Centeno, Nicolás Reznik (UNTREF)
   
• From teachers to researchers: changing priorities of academic profession in post-Soviet countries
  Isak Frumin (Constructor University Bremen), Daria Platonova
   

Session 2/2: Internationalisation | Chair: Barbara Hönig
 

• Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions: A Comparative Study in Taiwan and Japan 
  Sophia Shi-Huei Ho (University of Taipei), Robin Jung-Cheng Chen (National Chengchi University), Futao Huang (Hiroshima University), Ying-Yan Lu (Kaohsiung Medical University)
   
• Croatian academics’ evolving “relationship” with university governance and management: A decadelong changing nature of individual and socio-organisational patterns
  Bojana Ćulum Ilić, Nena Rončević (University of Rijeka)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Paper Session 3

Session 3/1: Academic identity and sense of belonging | Chair: Teresa Carvalho

• The desirability of an academic career – a cross-country comparison
  Franziska Lessky (University of Innsbruck), Nicolai Götze (INCHER Kassel), Alison Elizabeth Jefferson (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Corinna Geppert (University for Continuing Education), Christian Schneijderberg (INCHER Kassel)
   
• Academic Identity and Attachment: Job Security as a Driver of Community
  Stefan Lundborg, Khayala Ismayilova, Lars Geschwind, Anders Broström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
          
• Interdisciplinarity and academics’ sense of belonging
  Anna-Lena Rose, Sude Pekşen, Liudvika Leišyte (TU Dortmund)

Session 3/2: The development of an academic career | Chair: Tsukasa Daizen

• Shining Stars or Hidden Scars? Unveiling the Quest for Academic Tenure Track System in China 
  Gaoming Zheng, Maobo Pan (Tongji University)
   
• Many years running after new research targets, and then what? The actual consequences of a change of promotion criteria
  Giulio Marini (University of Catania)
   
• Interdisciplinary Research at Universities in Austria 
  David F.J. Campbell (University for Continuing Education Krems) (withdrawn)

16:00 – 16:30 Closing of the day
                          Timo Aarrevaara

18:00 – 19:30 Social Event: Guided Tour through the city of Krems, Stein

19:30 – 21:30 Dinner

09:00 – 09:30 Coffee and arrival
09:30 – 11:30 APIKS consortium meeting (APIKS-Members only)
11:30 – Farewell