Quality and Excellence in RTOsEARTO Office, Brussels

16th June 2008

Welcome!

Opening

• Attendance, Apologies

• Houskeeping– Visiting cards– Fire alarm– No smoking– Coffee– Lunch– Finishing time

Proposal for an RTO Yearbook- First Ideas -

Why?

• EARTO Objective: Establish RTOs as Key Policy Category– Some success, but not enough

• Follow-up to RTOs in the Evolving European Research Area• Annual publication to remind who we are

– perhaps published each year with a high-level reception in Brussels

What and How?

• Contents– Statistical snapshot of RTO sector– Selected articles on RTOs, e.g. impact studies, case studies

• e.g. republished and translated material

• Statistical snapshot– Ambitious, because RTOs not an established category in official statistics– Thus have to collect data ourselves through a survey

• Identify RTOs individually, country and country• Invite non-members to contribute and/or gross up the numbers

– What indicators?