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).
GLOBDIVES INTRODUCED DURING THE UNED (THE SPANISH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION) OPENING CEREMONY
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.
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.
LAHTI SCIENCE DAY (21-11-2023)
A theme group on multiculturalism was a part of Lahti Science Day which functions as a platform for educational institutions in Päijät-Häme region to share research and project results to a local audience and really to everyone interested. Popularization of research is seen as an important topic in RDI activities in Finland. Jaana Häkli shared GLOBDIVES project results in the event by focusing especially on results from student and teacher questionnaires.
DIVE TO DIVERSITY (7-11-2023)
LAB University of Applied Sciences hosted its multiplier event by the name Dive to Diversity on 7.11. The event was arranged with slightly different program in both campuses of LAB, in Lappeenranta and in Lahti and online.
A keynote speech from DEI trainer Hodan Mohamed on how organizations can boost inclusivity was followed by Jaana Häkli’s presentation on research results gained in the project.
After that post-doctorate researcher Riikka Suhonen from Helsinki University highlighted every individual’s and HEIs’ roles in the implementation of global education.
Keynote speeches from Lappeenranta were streamed to Lahti and online. The multiplier event reached about 100 people for the pre-afternoon, streamed part.
Globalization and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration (GEBA 2023) Conference, October 19-21, 2023
Preliminary insights from the research conducted on higher education teachers were presented in Iasi, Romania at Globalization and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration (GEBA 2023) Conference hold from 19thto 21st of October 2023 (https://www.feaa.uaic.ro/geba). Carmen Claudia Aruștei (UAIC) and Jaana Hakli (LAB) presented the results from Output no 3 to an audience of 7 academics focusing on higher education teachers’ confidence in their diversity and inclusion competencies necessary for a more and more diverse classroom (Output no. 3). The GLOBDIVES project results reached academics from other Romanian Universities and the book of abstracts is available online and was also distributed to over 100 academics participating to the conference all over the world.
STAR GLOBAL CONFERENCE. UVIGO UNESCO CHAIR. OCTOBER, 2023. Vigo, Spain
Globdives members presented their main research findings at the Star Global Conference. Uvigo UNESCO Chair 2023:
Carmen Arustei
Jaana Häckli
Kerstin Heuwinkel
Petra Garnjost
Mercedes Mareque
Margarita Pino
Elena de Prada
PROJECT MANAGEMENT MEETING. OURENSE, SPAIN.
On the 6th of October 2023, GLOBDIVES members met in Ourense, Spain (Faculty of Education), hosted by the University of Vigo.
This meeting had the purpose of evaluating GLOBDIVES and organising the next steps for project development and implementation. The ways to organise training courses by the newly trained teachers were discussed. Once the project is finished, the objective is to integrate its proposals within the respective universities to promote and facilitate global citizenship and diversity in the classroom.
2023 EU-PAIR ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 2nd EDITION, “Challenges and Dynamics of European Administrative Area”, 22nd – 23rd of June 2023, Iași, Romania
Carmen Claudia Aruștei (UAIC) presented results from the project at 2023 EU-PAIR ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 2nd EDITION, “Challenges and Dynamics of European Administrative Area”, 22nd – 23rd of June 2023, Iași, Romania. 5 academics participated to the presentation entitled Developing diversity and global citizenship skills for university students – preliminary insights from a qualitative analysis.
The book of abstracts is available online (http://eu-pair.uaic.ro/).
The book of abstracts is available online (http://eu-pair.uaic.ro/).
GLOBDIVES IO1 EVALUATION AT HTW SAAR
Petra Garnjost (htw saar) and Kerstin Heuwinkel (htw saar) introduced the GLOBDIVES project objectives and key findings from the Intellectual Output 1 to an interested student audience. Furthermore, project results such as methods and activities were evaluated. The feedback was very positive and some of the ideas will be realised during summer term at htw saar.
GLOBDIVES IN LAHTI SCIENCE DAY
Jaana Häkli introduced GLOBDIVES project objectives and key findings from the Intellectual Output 1 and 2 to an interested audience in Lahti Science Day on 24th Nov in Finland. Lahti Science Day had its 20th anniversary and in 8 parallel sessions over 80 presentations on RDI work of different institutions of higher education and research institutions were introduced.
EXPERIENCES IN KA2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR HE: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Informative sessions "Nuevas oportunidades de financiación europea 2023 en el ámbito de la educación y la innovación, ejemplos de buenas prácticas", organized by el Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Transferencia e Innovación y el Área de Educación de la Oficina de Proyectos Internacionales.
Within the framework of these informative sessions, Elena de Prada, presented the structure and first steps in the project development to a wide audience.
The event was recorded and broadcasted by UVigo TV.
GLOBDIVES MEETING IN IASI (ROMANIA)
During the 13 and 14 of October 2022, Globdives members met in Iasi, hosted by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, and led by Bogdan Zugravu and Carmen Arustei.
Click here for additional information:
JOINT WORKSHOP – UVIGO AND HTW SAAR, OURENSE. SEPTEMBER 2022
GLOBDIVES DISSEMINATION IN IASI, ROMANIA, July 2022
GLOBDIVES in Iasi, on Wednesday, 13th July, 2022.
Carmen Arustei presented the project and led an interesting discussion with the audience.
The location was a student cafeteria called Erasmus Cafe which was recently renovated. We had 28 participants from all over the world, including Canada, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, etc.
It was an excellent, interesting discussion!
For some university participants, diversity is learned specialy by students coming from other countries, in online format, showing the 'local culture', most of the time. Global citizenship is not taught like this, but a lot of emphasis is put on sustainability, which is considered to be a related topic in some of the university participants.
GLOBDIVES IN CROACIA
In Croacia. News from Vern University.
Representatives of numerous world universities attended the event. They were introduced to the history of this Spanish city by local students.
Our English language lecturers Branka Šuput and Svea Kršul participated in the 10th International Week at the University of Vigo in Spain, which was held as part of the Erasmus+ Program for teaching staff mobility.
As the program took place on the campus in Ourense, along with professors from Germany, Latvia, and Portugal, on the first day our lecturers had the opportunity to get to know thit old Galician town under the expert guidance of local students. The sightseeing was organized and designed as a group competition called "Ourense Challenge" - each group of lecturers had the task of visiting ten places in the city, answering the questions, and confirming the answers with selfies on Instagram. In this interesting way, they were introduced to the history and sights of Ourense and had a lot of fun. The winners received hoodies with the X International Week logo.
Spanish and German students from the University of Bremerhaven participated in the lectures and workshops held by professors from the participating institutions.
For the international academic group, our lecturers held interactive workshops on the topics of tour guide language and academic writing skills, while lecturers from India, Turkey, and the United States gave their lectures online, as did professors from Finland and Romania. They held an intercultural workshop on the GLOBDIVES international project, on global citizenship and diversity management in higher education.
The participants concluded that such projects are a great way to connect within the global academic community, which was confirmed by one German student who, when asked if he felt like a global citizen, answered: "Now I feel like one".
Equally positive impressions had our lecturers.
For the complete report, click here: Croacia
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