STUVO-congres: verbinding valt niet uit de lucht
Victor Rousseaulaan 75
1190 Brussel
Het thema van congres van de Vlaamse studentenvoorzieningen is dit jaar: ‘Sociale cohesie’. Hoe brengen we studenten bij elkaar? Hoe creëren we ontmoeting? En welke rol kunnen de studentenvoorzieningen of de hogescholen hierin spelen?
About the conference
During this 1 day-conference we will bring an overview on how UASA’s fulfill their duty on the implementation of global engagement in restricted times.
Starting with lots of individual and collective opportunities for mobilities for students and staff and in 2020 being forced to stop these exchanges due to the pandemic, UASA’s were showing their great adaptability skills. Good practices, innovative methodologies and new types of exchanges and practice-oriented trainings in line with environmental and travel restrictions will be shown by experts in the fields.
A new model of a professional training for teachers beyond the border of time, space and institution will be presented. In full preparation of the next 5 year program, lessons learned will be shown.
In an increasingly rapidly changing world, Global Engagement is becoming a more important theme than ever at the Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts in Flanders.
The conference is taking place at the Campus Narafi of the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. On this Campus, LUCA School of Arts organizes professional bachelor courses in Film, TV and Video and Photography. Narafi was founded in 1939, making it the oldest film and photography school in Belgium. From the beginning, the students found a home in the Duden Castle in the park of the same name in Forest.
Programme
09:45 - Welcome
Maria Meulders, host
09:50 - Opening Conference
Koen Goethals, President Vlaamse Hogescholenraad
10:00 - Keynote 1 - “Equal partners in an unequal world – is that possible?”
Gie Goris, Mo Magazine
10:20 - Keynote 2 - “Towards Sustainable Institutionalized COILing; Lessons from Intercultural Engagements”
Goitom Tegegn, Mekelle University, Ethiopia
10:40 - Q and A
11:15 - Breakout Sessions 1 - 4
12:15 - Lunch - “Drink a Coffee with...”
14:00 - Keynote 3 - “Global Engagement Staff Lab”
Ezra Charlier, Hogeschool UCLL
14:15 - Keynote 4 - “Connecting & unlearning dichotomized development”
Prof. Lizahn G. Cloete & Anne-Mie Engelen
Stellenbosch University & HOGENT
14:30 - Keynote 5 - “The theory of Change Global Minds 2.0”
Steven Schoofs, VLIR-UOS
14:40 - Q and A
14:50 - Breakout Sessions 5 - 8
15:50 - Keynote 6 - “International solidarity: from charity to justice”
Els Hertogen, 11.11.11
16:05 - Global Minds Award Ceremony
16:15 - Reception
Keynotes
Keynote 1
Equal partners in an unequal world – is that possible?
Gie Goris — Mo Magazine
North-South cooperation will always carry the heritage of the colonial era and the consequences of global inequalities. Which forces us to confront the question whether this cooperation provides a necessary support for our colleagues or projects in the Global South, or whether it is instrumental in reproducing their permanent disadvantages. How can universities and colleges in the Global North approach and handle the inequalities in incomes and power between themselves and their partners in the Global South? In his keynote, Gie Goris will not focus on the correct answer, but on interesting praxis.
Gie Goris
was editor-in-chief of MO*magazine (2002-2020) and of Wereldwijd
Magazine (1990-2002). He also woked as educator for Broederlijk
Delen-Welzijnszorg (1980-1990). He is one of the experts contributing to
the Global Engagement Staff Lab and continues to work as a (now
retired) journalist for MO* (see e.g. this essay (Dutch) about development cooperation versus international cooperation)
Keynote 2
Towards Sustainable Institutionalized COILing; Lessons from Intercultural Engagements
Goitom Tegegn — Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Due to the pandemic, our Universities of Applied Sciences were forced to overthink their usual activities and projects. In a context of uncertainties, many periods of no-communiation and immobilities Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts were showing their flexilibity in cooperation with their local partners. Turning a South Intensive Project into a COILSIP was one of these successes. Goitom will explain how he experienced it from his University in Ethiopia.
Goitom
Tegegn Admasu is a lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education,
Institute of Pedagogical Sciences at Mekelle University, Ethiopia. With a
passion to the application of trending educational technologies, he has
taught courses focusing on diversity accommodation, curriculum and
instruction, and instructional technology to undergraduate and graduate
students. He has established and led the international office of Mekelle
University for seven years during which major achievements were made in
partnerships, staff and student mobilities, and recruitment of
international students. Goitom firmly believes that higher education
efforts should put maximization of opportunities for students at the
core of their mission.
His training and practice in internationalization
has given him broader network of partners from all corners of the
globe. He is currently engaged as a guest lecturer at Thomas More
University of Applied Sciences in Belgium, where he, in addition to
other internationalization efforts, is serving as the coordinator of an
interdisciplinary and intercultural North – South Collaborative Online
International Learning course, the Tackling Global Challenges. He is
part of the ICECube team, a flagship program at Thomas More University
of applied sciences that inspires, engages and coaches driven students
through their journey in exercising Innovation, Creativity and
Entrepreneurship.
Goitom has a Master of Education degree in Multicultural and Multilingual Education and is a certified expert in Management of Internationalization.
Keynote 3
Global Engagement Staff Lab
Ezra Charlier — UCLL
In a constantly changing world, higher education faces great
challenges. We strive to ensure that students are prepared to live and
work in a world where borders become more faded. Encouraging engagement
and responsibility to deal with the challenges of a globalised world is
therefore a key focus in Global Engagement in higher education.
The
Global Engagement Staff Lab offers colleagues from all universities of
applied sciences tools to reflect on and shape their work from an
intercultural perspective. Through exchange, the GESLab strives to
inspire policy and practice. During this keynote, you can get a taste of
what is offered in the Global Engagement Staff Lab.
Ezra Charlier is international relations adviser at UCLL, University of Applied Sciences. After working in international cooperation for several years, she started her career in higher education in the advanced bachelor Global Citizenship and Development. She currently works in Global Engagement in higher education, both on practice and policy level and is one of the project leaders of the Global Engagement Staff Lab, developed in cooperation with the Vlaamse Hogescholenraad.
Keynote 4
Connecting & unlearning dichotomized development
Prof. Lizahn G. Cloete & Anne-Mie Engelen
A decolonized process against imposed occupation creates opportunities for unlearning notions perpetuate dichotomies such as the rich and the poor, those who know and those who don’t, the north and the south. When global minds connect we have the potential to address global issues as we foster spaces where partners can collaborate on equal terms while we unlearn tendencies to ‘have power over’, ‘keep control over’, separate ‘us’ from ‘them’ and ‘impose our ideas on the project’.
Lizahn
Cloete is an associate professor in the Division of Occupational
Therapy at Stellenbosch University. She has numerous publications in
peer-reviewed journals and co-authored a number of book chapters. She
coordinates postgraduate research at departmental level. Her practice
and research focus on creating supportive environments for women and
children affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. She engages with
communities of practice in education, social development and
non-governmental -sectors. She specialises in capacity appreciation and
capacity extension of vulnerable groups, and takes particular interest
in research on decolonising undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in
higher education. She has extensive teaching experience in relational
ethics, professionalism, management and quality assurance and policy
implementation in occupational therapy.
Anne-Mie
Engelen is a lecturer & international coordinator Occupational Therapy at
HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her focus is about
working in and with the context. This is about involving parents,
brothers and sisters in therapy but also about working with the
neighbourhood/community. International networking is evident to her as a
person and a professional.
Keynote 5
The theory of Change Global Minds 2.0
Steven Schoofs — VLIR-UOS
The current Global Minds programme is coming to an end. Steven will
present the ambitions of the new 5-year programme of VLIR-UOS as well as
the new Theory of Change for Global Minds.
Steven Schoofs coordinates the Global Minds programme of VLIR-UOS. He has a background in international development cooperation and has worked in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the Philippines.
Keynote 6
International solidarity: from charity to justice
Els Hertogen — 11.11.11
Els will share some of her insights together with some principles who can guide the Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts through the development of the new 5 year programme based on equity, equality and reciprocity.
Els Hertogen recently published a book 'Van liefdadig naar rechtvaardig'.
Breakout Sessions 1 - 4
Session 1
The International Educating Class - for more than 10 years, an International Living Lab
Melanie van Oort-Hall
& Chinidu Blaise Nze
Hogeschool UC Leuven-Limburg
Session 2
PTEC-KdG COIL 'Effectiveness of Teaching
Pieter Borremans
& Maayke Nabuurs
Karel de Grote Hogeschool
Session 4
Inquiry-based science education in metal polluted areas in Peru
Tom Peeters
& Daniel Guerra
Erasmushogeschool Brussel
Breakout Sessions 5-8
Session 5
Prevent chronic malnutrition during the first 1,000 days of life
Martine Willems,
Claudia Rokx
& Sigrid Kramer
Odisee
International student mobility and Global South partnerships - How ethical are our practices?
Sebastian Van Hoeck
& Loes Verhaeghe
UCOS
Session 7
Breaking physical, personal and environmental boundaries through innovative education
Frederik De Laere
& Helen Caldwell
Howest
How a cross country - interdisciplinary approach will pave the way to a multi-dimensional intercultural understanding
Elke Van de Moortel
& Retha Bloem
Hogeschool PXL