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Newsletter - October 2021
NEWS UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022. 18-20 May 2022, Barcelona. New dates!
The 3rd UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) will take place from 18 to 20 May 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. This event has only been convened twice in Paris (1998 and 2009), and in 2022, for the very first time, it will be celebrated in the city of Barcelona, GUNi's headquarters. The WHEC2022 is organised by UNESCO in partnership with GUNi/ACUP, with the support of the Government of Spain, the regional Government of Catalonia, the City Hall and the Regional Authority of Barcelona and with the technical support of the IESALC.
It will offer new knowledge, innovative ideas, creative alliances, and produce an enlarged coalition of the global higher education community in favour of 2030 Agenda for Development and beyond. We are very honoured to be UNESCO’s main partner in the organization and celebration of such an event. The Conference will be a unique opportunity for the higher education sector all over the world. Read more here [2].
GUNi World Report-Special Issue - New Visions for Higher Education Institutions towards 2030 and the GUNi Int. Call for action 2021-2025
GUNi is working on the elaboration and edition of a “Special Issue” of the GUNi Higher Education in the World Report series, GUNi’s flagship project, called “GUNi World Report-Special Issue - New Visions for Higher Education Institutions towards 2030”. This Report will be officially presented and launched at the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022 (WHEC2022) in Barcelona and will constitute the springboard to the GUNi International Call For Action (2021-2025) project. Read more here [3].
You will find more information and details in the document "Concept Note - GUNi World Report-Special Issue - New Visions for Higher Education Institutions towards 2030" here. [4]
"Social Commitment and Community Engagement in Higher Education in Latin America and Europe: Sharing Experiences and Institutional Self-Reflection Frameworks"
Summary, video recording and presentations available here [5].
GUNi supports Scholars At Risk’s urgent appeal to take action for Afghanistan’s scholars, researchers and civil society
Read more here [6].
GUNi participates in the "Internationalization in Higher Education for Society" (IHES) project
IHES aims to involve the general community in internationalization. Read more here [7].
The Global University Network for innovation welcomes 7 new members
Read more here [8] and join the network!
RESOURCES
Assessing the Feasibility of Developing a Framework for Community Engagement in European Higher Education
A new publication entitled Assessing the Feasibility of Developing a Framework for Community Engagement in European Higher Education [9] has been issued as a part of the project Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education (TEFCE). Authored by Thomas Farnell (Institute for the Development of Education), Anete Veidemane and Don Westerheijden (Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente), the publication examines how community engagement could become a central part of the higher education policy landscape in Europe in the next decade.
Synergies between Humanities, Science & Technology: a transformative understanding of the Humanities
Keynote speech [10] by Josep M. Vilalta, GUNi Director and Executive-Secretary at ACUP, at the European Humanities Conference 2021.
Bringing responsibility and RRI into regional development: from theory to practice. TeRRIFICA contribution at the SeeRRI booklet
The SeeRRI project has focused on how to address solutions to territory’s challenges by integrating responsible #RRI criteria to the solution-making process.
Don’t miss out the TeRRIFICA contribution at the section “Approach from other RRI territorial projects” [11] (pages 28-29): Collaborative efforts for climate action.
ARTICLES
Do we educate to strengthen democracy and the common good?
"Curricula seem to be an infinite repository to which we tirelessly add subjects and knowledge". Read more [12].
Education as a pillar of the 2030 Agenda. Evolution and perspectives in the context of the Covid-19 crisis
"'Education is the point at which we decide if we love the world enough to take responsibility for it', wrote Hannah Arendt more than 60 years ago". Read more [13].
AGENDA / EVENTS
03/11/2021 - DECODE Launch of European Deans Council for Sustainble Development
The DECODE project will launch the European Deans Council for Sustainable Development [16] on Nov. 3rd, 2021, in an event hosted online at 15:00h (CET).
18-20/05/2022 - UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022
Organised by UNESCO in partnership with GUNi/ACUP, the WHEC2022 will bring together relevant stakeholders to define and prepare a roadmap for a new era of higher education. Read more here [2].
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