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Abstract submission deadline: Sunday 12 December 2010
Notification of acceptance: Wednesday 29 December 2010
Paper submission deadline: Monday 28 February 2011
Registration: Thursday 10 March 2011

Keywords: higher education, employment, employability, human capital, skill, training, university cooperation, demand for graduates, supply of graduates, graduate labour markets, international mobility, gender, inequality, policy evaluation, public and private performance, survey methods, statistical indicators, representative samples.

Introduction
The recent economic and financial crisis is deeply affecting the labour markets, depressing in particular both the occupational opportunities and the earnings capacity of the young people. In this respect, the capability to carry out the education of competent graduates, to employ them and to foster continuing education becomes crucial in order to increase both people’s employability and firms’ competitiveness.

At the end of the first ten years of the Bologna Process, the Council of the European Union has adopted the "Europe 2020" strategy, for promoting employment based on an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth. One of the five priority targets is to reach the 40% threshold of graduates in the 30-34 age group population. Furthermore, the overall perspective of the European Higher Education Area is strongly fostered.

The global scenario
In the global economy scenario, characterised by such a severe crisis, the European actions aimed at endorsing convergence in the educational systems could remain too much isolated. A wider scope integration of higher educational systems is highly needed. For this reason, both the African and the Euro-Mediterranean higher educational systems could be important assets for future co-operation. In these areas several highly qualified research and teaching institutes are present, which prove the effectiveness of investments in higher education in developing countries, and favour the creation of a safe and riskless Euro-Mediterranean area, ready for the mobility of high quality human resources.

General objectives
The aim of this Conference is to foster the exchange of inter-disciplinary knowledge, information, experiences and best practices among young graduates and researchers, transnational firms, cluster of small and medium size firms, the Euro-Mediterranean universities and the governments of the regions of the Mediterranean Sea.

The 13th AlmaLaurea Survey on Italian Graduates’ Employment Conditions (previous surveys), based on the experiences of over 370.000 graduates 1, 3 and 5 years after graduation, will be presented and put in comparison with similar survey and studies carried out internationally. This will allow the promotion and strengthening of international research networks in the field and the design of policy proposals aimed at deploying higher education outcomes through the Euro-Mediterranean area as well as promoting the development of human resources at the international, national and local levels.

The leading actors
a) university graduates and researchers coming from the countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
b) scholars and academicians coming from the universities of the UfM countries
c) business managers coming from UfM countries
d) policy makers coming from UfM countries
e) global observers coming from other countries

Topics
The Conference welcomes papers focused on a number of different topics including:

• Skill needs and demand for graduates before and after the global crisis
• Youth choices and graduates supply before and after the global crisis
• Governance of graduate labour markets after the crisis: career guidance, intermediation, mismatch, over-education
• University cooperation and international mobility of graduates and researchers
• Gender issues, inequality and human development
• Public and private higher education achievements and policy evaluation
• Surveys methods and statistical indicators in tracer studies
• Requirements for representative samples in tracer studies
  
  Possible additional topics will be considered for acceptance by the Scientific Committee.

Submission of abstracts
Abstract proposals (600-700 words) should be delivered by the 12th of December 2010 on the AlmaLaurea web site. Abstracts should clearly mention:

• the title of the paper
• the name of the author(s) and the full address of the corresponding author (postal address, fax and email)
• the aim of the study and its methodology
• the kind and source of data employed
• the expected results and conclusion
• up to 5 keywords

Submitted abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee of the Conference, representing different countries of the European and Mediterranean Area. The best proposals will be selected for presentation. The Conference will also host a poster session.
The authors of the selected proposals will have the opportunity to present their work to an international and interdisciplinary audience of academics, employers and policy-makers. The selected proposals will also have the opportunity to be published and circulated among academic and expert networks throughout the European and Mediterranean Area. Economic support for travel and accommodation in Bologna will be provided to the authors of the best selected proposals. Special grants will be awarded to meet submissions coming from countries of the South Bank of the Mediterranean Sea.

Scientific Committee
Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi (Former United Nations Special Advisor), Romano Prodi (Former President of the European Commission and Italian Prime Minister), Mohammed Zaher Benabdallah (Rector, University of Meknes, Morocco), Patrizio Bianchi (Emilia Romagna Region, Councillor for School, Training, University and Research), Lino Cardarelli (Vice-Secretary, Union for the Mediterranean), Ivano Dionigi (Rector, University of Bologna), Michèle Gendreau-Massaloux (Responsible for Higher Education in the French mission Union for the Mediterranean), Josef Mifsud (President, Euro-Mediterranean University), Kate Purcell (Warwick Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick), Fabio Alberto Roversi Monaco (President, AlmaLaurea Inter-university Consortium), Hermann Schwengel (Pro-rector for Research, University of Friburg), Ulrich Teichler (University of Kassel, Director Emeritus of the International Center for Higher Education Research), Andrea Cammelli (Director, AlmaLaurea Inter-university Consortium), Gilberto Antonelli (AlmaLaurea’s Scientific Committee Coordinator)

Organization committee
Carla Salvaterra (Deputy Rector for International Relations, University of Bologna), Roberto Antonietti (University of Padua), Angelo di Francia (AlmaLaurea), Angelo Guerriero (AlmaLaurea), Giovanni Guidetti (University of Bologna), Matteo Sgarzi (AlmaLaurea)
For any question and inquiry please write to: international@almalaurea.it

Registration: Conference registration will be opened on line on the AlmaLaurea web site. Conference attendance is free of charge.

Grants: special grants will be awarded to proposals coming from countries of the South Bank of the Mediterranean Sea.

Economic support: economic support will be provided to the authors of the selected proposals.

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