HeKKSaGOn – Network of Universities


9th Japanese - German University Presidents’ Conference - 21/22 September 2023

“What Opportunities and Challenges does Artificial Intelligence offer to the Higher Education Sector?”

Göttingen University is pleased to welcome colleagues from the six HeKKSaGOn universities to Göttingen on September 21–22, 2023 for the 9th Japanese-German University Presidents' Conference.

Presidents, researchers, students and administrators from all HeKKSaGOn member universities – Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tohoku University, Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Göttingen University – will participate in this two-day event.

A draft program schedule can be found below. This will be successively refined and updated.

We invite you to register for this event by August 20, 2023.

Thursday, 21 September
Time Event
9:00 - 9:30 Get together for HeKKSaGOn Presidents
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome by President Metin Tolan, University of Göttingen
9:45 – 10:15 Opening Addresses
10:15 - 11:15 Presentations: “Current developments and future perspectives for HeKKSaGOn”
11:15 - 12:30 Panel discussion of the presidents on “What Opportunities and Challenges does Artificial Intelligence offer to the Higher Education Sector?” moderated by Prof. Ramin Yahyapour (Göttingen University)
Lunch break
14:00 – 17:00 Parallel: Working Groups, Summer School Students’ Groups, Rectors’ Meeting (Title: "What opportunities and challenges does artificial intelligence offer to the higher education sector?")
Break
18:30 – 19:30 Campus Tours
19:30 – 20:45 Standing reception with toasts of Presidents and Vice-Presidents: University of Göttingen, Tohoku University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Friday, 22 September
Time Event
9:00 – 11:30 Parallel: Closed Presidents’ Meeting, Working Groups, Summer School Students’ Groups
Lunch break
12:45 – 15:00 Plenary Meeting: Presentation of Summer School Students’ Group, Presentations of Projects, Report from the Presidents’ Meeting, Signing of the Joint Statement, Exchange of Presents, Welcome to next meeting in 2025 by Osaka University
15:00 – 16:00 Farewell Coffee

Registration

HeKKSaGOn

German-Japanese University Network



Contact

Dr. Tanja Falkowski
Göttingen International
Head and Deputy Director

Tel.: 0551 39-21334
hekksagon2023@uni-goettingen.de

Dr. Martin Jagonak
Göttingen International
Assistant to Head of International Relations

Tel.: 0551 39-21317
hekksagon2023@uni-goettingen.de