Michael Hindley has been consultant adviser to Blackburn College, Lancashire, UK since 2007.

www.blackburn.ac.uk

The College is developing ambitious plans to become the University of Pennine Lancashire and Michael’s advice has led to international connections with South Africa, Poland, India and Russia.
(picture r.shows Sir Bill Taylor, Chair of College Governors, with a Polish delegation of local and regional government officers and NGO leaders). A connection set up by Michael.

In November, Michael arranged for a visit to Blackburn College by Rectors from 5 Belarusian Universities for extensive talks about possible cooperation.

Michael is working as expert adviser by the European Economic and Social Committee's Trade Committee preparing a report on Europe's relations with Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan). This report is now available under articles.

Previously he has acted as expert on reports on “Europe/China relations” and the EC Commission’s programme for bilateral trade “Global Europe” and a report on "Food Security and World Trade"

Since January 2011 Michael has been acting as adviser on international links for the University of East London (UK)  

www.uel.ac.uk 

and under his guidance UEL has now signed Memorandums of Understanding with:

The Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

The Academy of Economic Science of Moldova

University of Mariupol, Ukraine

National Institute of Banking anf Finance, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Michael Hindley was a guest lecturer on Cunard's flagship Queen Mary II  in March from Osaka, Japan to Hong Kong , giving a series of talks on "Europe and Asia".

Michael was a keynote speaker on "The Politics of the EU's integration" at a Jean Monnet Conference, in Chisinau, Moldova in early May. Michael's background conference paper "European Integration and national sovreignty" is now available under ARTICLES

Michael was guest lecturer at the Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania in the week of 31st May.

www.ubbcluj.ro/en/

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Michael organised the participation of UEL in the "Discover Donbass Conference", Ukraine where UELVice-Chancellor, Patrick McGhee delivered a keynote address "A tale of two cities, Lonbdon and Donetsk, sharing experiences about their great sporting events of 2012 and planning for the future".

UEL held talks about cooperation with Mariupol University and the Sevastopol National Institute of Banking and signed Memorandums of Understanding with both. 

Below Michael Hindley and Mikhail Yurlov, Director of the Sevastopol Fund, stand before the Stone of Reconciliation, (Memorial to the fallen of the Crimean War) Balaclava, Ukraine.