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

 

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/.

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 19^thto 21^st 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 was at the STAR Global Conference-Uvigo UNESCO Chair on Transformative Education, participating in a round table session and chairing a panel about global citizenship and diversity management, in which four different research papers based on the project results were presented.

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

Full Program

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.

Further information

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”, 22^nd – 23^rd 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/).

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:

https://www.feaa.uaic.ro/diseminare-proiect-erasmusglobdives/

https://portal.feaa.uaic.ro/Stiri/Pages/FEAA-GLOBDIVES-oct2022.aspx

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. PRESENTATION AT THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL WEEK. OURENSE. APRIL 2022

In April 2022, GLOBDIVES members, Jaana Häkli and Carmen Arustei, presented GLOBDIVES project's objectives and preliminary findings during the 10th International Week, celebrated in Ourense, Spain.

There were more than 100 participants from different universities around the world. The event was broadcasted through Uvigo tv.

An interesting debate about global citizenship and diversity management was generated among participants. Both students and professors generated highly relevant insights.