Conference programme

Day I.
19. May CET 13.00 – 17.00

1. Opening Lectures: Rankings and the Decision-Makers         CET 13.00 – 14.00

Chair: Prof. Helga DORNER, Director, Institute of Research on Adult Education an Knowledge Management, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Prof. Luiz Claudio COSTA, President, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Brazil

Prof. László PALKOVICS, Minister for Innovation and Technology, Hungary

Prof. Laszlo BORHY, Rector, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

2. Are There Theories of Rankings?          CET 14.00 – 15.00

Chair: Prof. Helga DORNER, Director, Institute of Research on Adult Education an Knowledge Management, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

The Hidden Theoretical Underpinnings of the University Ranking Discourse – Keynote

Prof. Ulrich TEICHLER, University of Kassel, Germany

Reflections, comments

3. Rankings – Nowadays             CET 15.00 – 16.00

Chair: Prof. Helga DORNER, Director, Institute of Research on Adult Education an Knowledge Management, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Crisis, Conflict and University Rankings – Keynote

Dr. Richard HOLMES, University Ranking Watch, UK

4. Reflections of Ranking Providers and Experts             CET 16.00 – 17.00

Chair: Zsuzsanna BALÁZS, journalist, Hungary

Svetlana GRISHANKOVA, Rating-Agentur Expert RA, Russia

Nicolas CLETZ, Times Higher Education Ranking, UK

Ben SOWTER, QS World University Ranking, UK

Day II.
20. May CET 15.00 – 20.00

5. Meeting of Three Cultures: Universities, Rankings, and the Social-Economic Environment – Presentations and Roundtable Discussion CET 15.00 – 16.00

Chair: Dr. Gergely KOVÁTS, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary

Dr. Csilla STEGER, PwC, Hungary

Bartłomiej BANASZAK, Department of European Affairs in the Ministry of Economic Development, Labour and Technology, Poland

Dr. András TELCS, Budapest Ranking Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Pannon University, , Hungary

6. New Rankings Initiatives – for New Publics? CET 16.00 – 17.00

Chair: Dr András TELCS, Budapest Ranking Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Pannon University, Hungary

“EngiRank” – European Ranking on Engineering Programs. New approaches to design of regional and discipline oriented rankings.

Waldemar SIWINSKI, President, Perspektywy Education Foundation and Vice President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Poland

Ranking of the University Sport

Dr. Mózes SZÉKELY, Digital Success Programme, Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Hungary

Sports uni ranking

Zsombor LACZA, Anita STURM, Judit KÁDÁR, University of Physical Education, Hungary

Ranking for the V4 Countriese

Prof. László GULÁCSI, Óbuda University Budapest, Hungary

7. Rankings as Social Phenomena          CET 18.00 – 19.00

Chair: Dr Sándor SOÓS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

The evolution of the social game we all play – Keynote 

Prof. Peter ERDI, Kalamazoo CollegeWigner Research Centre for Physics, USA

Inversions of Measurement: We Value What We Rank – Keynote

Prof. Theodore PORTER, UCLA, USA

8. Reflections of Ranking Providers and Scientometrics II.         CET 19.00 – 20.30

Chair: Dr Sándor SOÓS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Bob MORSE, US News Ranking, USA

Gero FEDERKEIL, U-Multirank, Germany

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang GLÄNZEL, KU Leuven, Belgium

Day III.
21. May CET 14.00 – 18.00

9. Theoretical Approaches to Excellence CET 14.00 – 15.00

Chair: Prof. Ildiko HRUBOS, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary

The internal structure and predictors of scientific excellence – Keynote

Prof. Csaba PLÉH, Central European University, Hungary-Austria

10. Universities in the Ranking Games CET 15.00 – 16.00

Chair: Prof. Ildiko HRUBOS, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary

Imitative universities: ranking-driven resemblance of university missions

Gergo Papp, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Panel Discussion:

Prof. Mircea DUMITRU, University of Bucharest, Romania

Prof. Mirko Degli ESPOSTI, University of Bologna, Italy

Dr. Zuzanna GORENSTEIN, German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), Germany

11. Fresh glances to the Rankings – lectures CET 16.00 – 17.00

Chair: Waldemar SIWINSKI, President, Perspektywy Education Foundation and Vice President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Poland

Measuring Universities progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – THE Impact Rankings

Dr. Raghu RAMAN, Amrita University, India

World-Class Universities and Subjects Evaluation Report (2020-2021)

Dr. Rui ZHANG – Prof Junping QIU, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Predictibility of the QS ranking based on Scopus and SciVal data

Anna URBANOVICS, University of Public Service, Hungary

Performances of the Brazilian Universities in the “U-Multirank”

Antonio PRADO, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.

12. Closing Reflections       CET 17.00 – 17.30

Chair: Waldemar SIWINSKI, President, Perspektywy Education Foundation and Vice President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, Poland


Measured or Communicated? – Keynote

Dr. György FÁBRI, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Closing Reflections

Prof. Luiz Claudio COSTA, International Ranking Expert Group, Brazil