GLOBDIVES INTRODUCED DURING THE UNED (THE SPANISH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION) OPENING CEREMONY

The Project GLOBDIVES was presented within the framework of a plenary lecture on intercultural sensitivity  at the UNED academic opening ceremony in Ourense on the 28th of November 2022. The title of the lecture was "Actores y espectadores en un mundo globalizado: la interculturalidad a escena".

About 100 national and local authorities, together with professors, students, and interested participants attended the event, and showed great interest in the topic.

Click here to know more about it (in Spanish).

TRAIN THE TRAINERS SESSION IN OURENSE (SPAIN). OCTOBER, 3-5, 2023.

 

The members of the European project KA2 Global Citizenship and Diversity Management Skills in Higher Education (Globdives) met at the campus of Ourense to carry out one of their lines of action, a training programme for teachers based on the research findings obtained by the group. 

The course delved deep into the development and implementation of a global citizenship and diversity management skills programme in higher education.

 A total of 30 teachers from Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, and Spain actively participated and shared their insights to optimise the elaboration of the training toolkit.

GLOBDIVES TOOLKIT

 

GLOBDIVES: Taller interculturalidad

 

Train the trainers local: University of Vigo

From November 23 to December 1, 2023, three different workshops of Train the 

Trainers were celebrated on the three campuses of the University of Vigo: Vigo, Pontevedra, and Ourense, with a total of 113 participants from different subject areas. Alba Quintairos, Sherine Samy, and Elena de Prada adapted the project toolkit to Spanish and worked on different scenarios and contexts, taking into account the participants' previous experiences.

The sessions on interculturality generated a great deal of debate and participation and had a powerful effect on the attendees.

The participants considered that introducing the analysed concepts and practices into their specific situations was highly relevant.

Multiplier event: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (Romania)

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, as a partner within the project  GLOBDIVES – ”Global Citizenship and Diversity Management Skills in Higher Education” financed through the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (KA2 component, Strategic Partneships), organised on November 28th, 2023, a Multiplier Event that reunited teaching staff from various universities from Iasi and Romania and privat and non-guvernmental organisations both onsite and online.

The event aimed to disseminate the project’s results and the event agenda comprised the presentation of the project activities and its main intellectual outputs as well as a roundtable in which we discussed how to develop diversity management skills for students so that the labour market could capitalize on the benefits of a diverse work environment. The discussions strated from the premises that ”We are all in this together” (universities, companies, NGOs) and starting from the challenges that each of the actors have we shared possible best practices and future solutions.

The GLOBDIVES project was implemented between January 1st, 2022 – December 31st, 2023 by  a consortium made up of five universities: Kauno Kolegjia, Lithuania (coordinator), LAB University of Applied Sciencies, Finland, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (htw saar), Germany, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania and Universidad de Vigo, Spain. The goal of the project was to increase the awareness level of organisations’ representatives and teaching staff about the importance of addressing topics related to diversity management and global citizenship in the academia.

The results of the project are especially relevant for:

·      Academic teaching staff from any study field who wish to integrate these topics in their curricula;

·      Present and future teaching staff who wish to increase an inclusive learning environment;

·      Students from any study level, interested in the topics of global citizenship and diversity management;

·      Organisations involved in the training of diversity management skills for their trainees and employees.

The participants had the opportunity to see for themselves the importance of gaining diversity management skills and ways to put them into practice in their daily activities. They also contributed to parallel discussions run both onsite and online regarding the challenges and possible solutions in academia, business and the community they belong to. 

Those interested in getting more information about the project or how to apply the diversity management and global citizenship topics in their own work environment, are kindly asked to check the link https://globdives.blogspot.com/.

FERA CONFERENCE IN VAASA, (23-24-11-2023)

Fera conference on education is the biggest conference in Finland in the field of pedagogy This year the conference was held in Vaasa, on the western coast of Finland. Researchers’ topics in the conference are very versatile and they range e.g. from inclusion to primary education challenges, from digitalization of teaching to sustainable education and pedagogics for children with special needs. Global education had an own special-interest group in the conference as well and in it Jaana Häkli gave a presentation on GLOBDIVES results that awoke interesting comments, questions, and possible collaboration possibilities in the future. As a result of this presentation, a blog post on GLOBDIVES will be written also on the GERIF website, Global Education Research in Finland. It was wonderful to meet people with similar research interests and to get new ideas for future research projects from the conference.