Other Events
Other Events
EURASHE 23rd Annual Conference
Higher Education - Making the Knowledge Triangle Work
9 - 10 May 2013, Split, Croatia
EURASHE as the voice of professional higher education in the Bologna Process invites you to join them and their 7 keynote speakers on each of the three sides of the Knowledge Triangle -
Education - Innovation - Employability
Over 125 participants from 30 countries from within and outside the EHEA have already registered. Don't miss the opportunity to play a role in the European Commission's Horizon 2020 policies.
For more detail on the keynote speakers, conference programme, registration and practical information please click on this link: http://eurashe.eu/conferences-and-events/eurashe-annual-conferences/split-2013/
Third SiS Catalyst Policy-Practice Interface Conference
Global Catalysts: the Potential and Ethics of Learning from Children
University of Tartu, Estonia
24th - 26th April 2013
At the heart of SiS Catalyst is our target group of children aged 7-14 – the locally defined minorities – who are least likely to progress to higher education in a specific locality. As children are the future we must respect their rights to participation and find ways to empower them.
We welcome those who have an interest in learning about what we do to the third PPI conference, “Global Catalysts: the Potential and Ethics of Learning from Children” at the University of Tartu, Estonia. In Tartu we will consider the ethical guidelines and capture the organisational and societal learning which occurs as a consequence of working with, and listening to children and young people.
The conference is free of charge and registration is now open. To register and find out more about the conference programme, accommodation and practical information please go to: www.siscatalyst.eu/tartu
First SiS Catalyst Policy Briefing Seminar
Children's Rights, Institutions' Responsibilities: Transforming Strategy into Reality
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
28th February 2013
The focus of this seminar is on the importance of listening to children and how institutions and national governments can play a role in establishing a culture of respect for children's views and decisions. It hopes to engage with policy makers in contributing to the implementation of objectives 1: promoting child-friendly services and systems; and 2: promoting child participation; of the Council of Europe’s “’Building a Europe for and with Children’ – a strategy for 2012-2015”. For more information about the seminar and programme: http://www.siscatalyst.eu/future-events/policy-makers-briefing-february-2013
Policy makers are also change makers. They are leaders within our governments, institutions, business and community organisations. They are people who can make the changes needed to ensure that children have opportunities to engage with decision makers and to participate in education. At this seminar participants will be invited to endorse the SiS Catalyst Ankara and Porto Declarations on children’s rights and our responsibilities: www.siscatalyst.eu/policy-makers/declarations
Please note that this seminar is by invitation only.
Second Strategic Development and Embedding
SiS Catalyst & EUCU.NET Conference
28th - 30th November 2012
Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto - Reitoria, Praça Gomes Teixeira
This conference is going to explore the impact of new technologies on children and the potential of new technologies for targeting and highlighting educational opportunities. We are going to capture the learning within the conference in various workshops and mentoring through the contributions of junior advisors. The aim of the conference is to discuss the advantages and drawbacks of information technology and its accessibility from various perspectives. This will include children and young people, politicians, educationalists, sociologists, university managers, lecturers and geeks.
This conference will take place alongside the European Children's Universities Network (EUCU.NET) conference.
For more details, conference program and registration, please go to http://www.siscatalyst.eu/porto.
Second SiS Catalyst Policy Practice Interface Conference
Children as Change Agents for Science and Society
"Putting global thinking into action"
University of Zagreb, Croatia
25th - 27th of June 2012
We are the custodians of our children´s future but how are they included in our institutional learning? Over recent years there has been a global shift in the vision of the role that education can play in our collective future. This has included a growing recognition of the personalised learning journey that we, our learning institutions and society are undertaking in an increasingly interconnected world.
The pace of change is accelerating and the mission of the SiS Catalyst project is to turn such ideas into reality through the mobilisation of our mutual learning and the identification of the cultural change that we need to embrace. SiS Catalyst specifically focuses on how we include children in the dialogue between society and the academic communities.
This conference will be an opportunity for the curious to explore the vision of SiS Catalyst and to see how it relates to their own.
What are Mentoring Associates?
For more information on SiS Catalyst, please visit http://www.siscatalyst.eu/
UNeCC Sixth Annual Conference: "Ageing Society, Ageing Culture?"
18-19 October 2012, Maribor, Slovenia, European Capital of Culture 2012
Conference Themes and Call for Papers