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. 

The program in the afternoon included workshops in Lappeenranta and a networking fair in Lahti.

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/).