IHERD, Marseille, July 2013

Higher Education and Research for Development (IHERD) is an OECD based project
supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
The overall objective of the programme is to increase strategic and coherent
investments in innovation, higher education and research on a global level;
to raise awareness and increase knowledge of policy and management instruments
in higher education, research and innovation; to share this knowledge
so that countries are better able to plan, produce and use research for sustainable
economic development and growth.

As a member of the Advisory Group for IHERD-OECD, the Director of HERC, Professor
Maria Slowey participated in an expert meeting in Marseille, France on 1-2
July 2013. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the preliminary reports/results
of six research projects that IHERD has undertaken so far with policy makers,
practitioners and academics in order to take their views and comments on
board in preparing the final reports.