On October 25th Vision was in Berlin, where the Conference of German Rectors (HKR) organized a major event on Master Programmes (presentation on Internationalization of MBAs). Previuosly, on October 10-11th, Vision presented its ranking of Italian Universities in Bratislava (presentation), during the conference organized by IREG on National Rankings. On April 14th, we held in Perugia the fifth annual conference "The furure of Universities in the global market of ideas: internationalization and new competitors (agenda). The discussion focused on effectiveness of different internationalization strategies, and new competitors of Universities in the global market of innovation and knowledge, such as Think tanks and new media. During the conference Vision released the paper "The Internationalization Imperative" and the ranking of "the most international italian universities". The broad, ambitious Vision project is to imagine (and design) the universities on the future focusing on issues like: the marketing and the internationalization; the methodologies for ranking universities; the impact of the Internet; the new segments of students.

On June 16-19th, Vision was at the 9th Europe Asia Young Leaders Forum in London, to hold a workshop the European Social Innovation Index, within the broader theme “The Growth We Need: Innovations in Politics, Business and Society”. The conferences main topics were the rise of the Big Society on one side, and possible initiatives to make it happen on the others (like social finance).

On May 13th, Vision was at the British School at Rome, for the conference "The end of the Leviathan and the rise of the Big Society" (agenda). Among the speakers involved: Jessica Asato (Director of Labour Yes), Linda Lanzillotta (President of Glocus and MP), Max Wind-Cowie (Demos), Paolo Reboani (President of Italia Lavoro) and John Hooper (Italy correspondent for The Economist and The Guardian). The discussion developed a debate on the different paths - taken in the UK and Italy - to solve the difficult equation of increasing the quality and quantity of public services by reducing the costs.