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Deputy Minister Maria Elżbieta Orłowska
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
of the Republic of Poland meets the graduates of Top 500 Fall 2011 Program
Deputy Minister Maria Elżbieta Orłowska
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
of the Republic of Poland
Modernization of Higher Education
EU and Polish Perspective
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Stouffer Auditorium
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Please read our report on the presentation
Poland has all the tools, the economy, and the intellectual strength to become a leading world economy but innovation leadership is lacking. Part of the solution is to educate Poland’s intellectual elite to be not only deep discipline experts but also broad solution thinkers. Ministry of Science and Higher Education instituted a program Top 500 Innovators for young Polish scholars to undergo professional development at leading US academic institutions. The first forty Top 500 Innovators will complete their Science Management Commercialization program at the Stanford Center for Professional Development on December 13, 2011.
Polish institutions of higher education have produced many leaders in science, technology, and liberal arts whose potential was recognized, appreciated, and promoted abroad rather than in Poland. The higher learning and science institutions of Poland as well as of other European countries, functioning over centuries in an excessively conservative environment, themselves became constrained and rigid. A deep re-thinking of the structure of governance, financing, and accountability was needed. Deputy Minister, Secretary of State, Prof. Maria Elżbieta Orłowska spent the last four years preparing such reforms and introducing them to the Polish Parliament. Her lecture will address the nature of those reforms, the successes and difficulties of the process, as well as the EU perspective of the challenges in higher education.
Deputy Minister Maria Elżbieta Orłowska was born in 1951 in Warsaw, specializes in Information Technology, 1995-2007 head of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Division of the University of Queensland; in 2003 was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, since 2008 Secretary of State of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.
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