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Managing & Evaluating Partnerships

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11 - 25 Nov 2026

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3 days

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Take the next step in your career and learn to govern and manage multiple partnerships effectively with expert strategies for relationship management, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Develop tools to streamline activities, address challenges early, and ensure mutually beneficial collaborations.

Did you know? Participating in this course will earn you 1.5 Continuing Education Units and a UIIN Badge!

*Please note that dates might be subject to change. They will be confirmed closer to the start date of the course. 

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Who should attend

Perfect for professional staff responsible for developing and managing partnerships or external engagement activities, whether within departments, faculties, or at the institutional level. If you are looking to build or strengthen strategic partnerships that drive value, this is for you

Learning outcomes

This course will help you to

  1. Master effective relationship management strategies
  2. Govern and manage multiple partnerships effectively
  3. Understand the importance of account and relationship management tools in streamlining partnership activities
  4. Have an approach to measuring and evaluating your partnerships
  5. Foster a culture of continuous improvement within your organisation
  6. Ensure mutually beneficial relationships and address potential challenges at an early stage
  7. Conduct partnership health checks to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement
  8. Expand your personal and professional network

Course elements

Week 1

11 Nov

Introduction to the program

12:30pm - 1:00pm UTC

Onboarding

Managing Partnerships Governance and Relationships Management | Workshop

1:15pm - 3:15pm UTC

Explore effective governance structures for partnerships, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes. Understand the role of account and relationship management tools in streamlining partnership activities, tracking progress, and enhancing communication.

Week 2

18 Nov

Measuring and Evaluating Partnerships | Workshop

1:00pm - 3:00pm UTC

Discover measurement and evaluation strategies to assess the effectiveness and impact of your partnerships and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Explore how you can conduct partnership health checks to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

Refining Partnership Management Practices | Practice Exchange

3:15pm - 4:15pm UTC

In this interactive session, participants will share their real-world experiences and approaches to managing partnerships, discussing effective governance structures, account management strategies, and evaluation techniques. Participants will exchange insights on partnership health checks, CRM tools, and methods for fostering long-term, successful collaborations.

Week 3

25 Nov

Develop a Partnership Health Check | Knowledge-to-Practice

12:30pm - 2:00pm UTC

Work with your peers to design and draft a partnership health assessment as a base for measuring and evaluating the state of your partnering activities.

Closing

2:15pm - 2:45pm UTC

Wrap-up

Facilitators & Experts

Dr. Sarah Jaber
Dr. Sarah Jaber

Director

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Dr. Sarah Jaber
Director
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Sarah is a Director at UIIN and an experienced consultant. She advises universities globally about university – industry engagement, strategic partnerships and institutional strategy. At UIIN, Sarah leads the advisory and business development practice, designing and delivering innovative solutions to enhance universities’ external engagement.

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Arno Meerman

CEO & Founder

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Arno Meerman
CEO & Founder
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Arno Meerman is the founder and CEO of UIIN. He has expanded UIIN into one of the world’s leading organisations in the field of university-industry engagement and works with UIIN’s global community to train and advise university leaders and professional staff to become more innovative.

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Dr. Balzhan Orazbayeva

Director Research and Training

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Dr. Balzhan Orazbayeva
Director Research and Training
UIIN

Balzhan is Director of Research & Training at UIIN, where she leads the development and scaling of training courses and ensures that research insights are translated into practical value for our community. She holds a PhD in university–business collaboration and brings deep expertise in connecting research, practice, and innovation to strengthen collaboration between higher education and industry.

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A/Prof. Dr. Todd Davey

Associate Partner

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A/Prof. Dr. Todd Davey
Associate Partner
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Todd has consulted to the European, Australian, and Vietnamese Governments, and to multiple universities. Todd is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the IMT Business School in Paris and a visiting researcher at Imperial College (UK), Technical University of Vienna (AUT) and the University of Adelaide (AUST) in the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation.

"As a result of the training, you become stronger and better at engaging with industry and adding value to your region."
Eve-Anne McCarron, External Engagement Manager, Atlantic Technological University
“The experience was very rich. The highlight of this course is to optimise my strategy with frameworks and very defined steps, that will guide the path for our strategy for next year.”
María del Mar Nicolás Fernández, Responsible for Business Development, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
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