The event will also showcase the results of the ECML’s current programme – Languages at the heart of learning – and launch the next programme 2020-23 – Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences. Plus...
09 décembre 2019
ECML 25th Anniversary Conference – Livestream starting at 10:30 CET on 5 December
08 décembre 2019
Free to Think 2019 is out!
Free to Think 2019 draws on data from SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project to identify trends related to violent attacks on higher education communities, including a series of deadly bombings targeting scholars and students in Afghanistan; wrongful imprisonments and prosecutions of scholars, particularly in Turkey and Sudan; pressures on student expression involving more than one hundred documented incidents around the world; and restrictions on academic travel, deployed most prominently by authorities in the U.S., Israel, and China. More...
Last call for registration for the International PhD course on "Philosophy of Responsible Innovation" in Delft/Wageningen
The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and Wageningen University invite PhD students in philosophy to register for the course “Philosophy of Responsible Innovation” to take place from January 8th – 17th 2020. More...
IESALC announces International Scholarship Program on public policies in higher education
UNESCO-IESALC announces its International Scholarship Program on public policies in higher education. This Program has the support of the República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Postgraduate or doctoral students of any discipline of the social sciences whose current thesis are relevant to higher education may apply. Details follow. More...
Pilot visit of TEFCE in Dublin: towards a European Framework for Community Engagement of Higher Education
The fourth and last pilot visit of the EU-funded project TEFCE (Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement) was held last 7th and 8th of November 2019 at the Technological University of Dublin (TUD), Ireland, co-hosted by TUD and the Dublin City Council. More...
Application For British Council #IdeasChangeLives Global Innovation Challenge Is Ongoing
#IdeasChangeLives is a global innovation challenge by British Council to find digital solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems. There will be a pitch and the winning pitch gets £20,000 to invest in their idea. Also, they get support and mentorship for a full year from British Council. More...
Citizens’ Conventions, Taking Democracy Seriously Highlights of the Conference and 3rd TeRRIFICA Reflective Workshop in Paris
The 3rd TeRRIFICA Reflective Workshop and Conference “Citizens’ Conventions, Taking Democracy Seriously” was held in Paris on October 14th and 15th 2019. The event was hosted at the Economic Social and Environmental Council (CESE) and the Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer. More...
The engaged university. Linking the global and the local: ACA-CMEPIUS Conference 2019
The ‘core business’ of ACA and of CMEPIUS is internationalisation of higher education. Internationalisation is also one of the issues this event will deal with. But it was not the main theme and it was a theme only insofar as international activities impact on the – local – university. Much more than on internationalisation, the conference was about the engagement of higher education institutions with their local and regional ‘habitat’. More...
Posthuman Knowledge
The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive capitalism. More...News from Maria Cano University Foundation in Colombia
Today, with 31 years of experience in the education sector in Colombia, Maria Cano University Foundation is present in the provinces of Antioquia, Huila, Cauca and Valle del Cauca, committed to continuing as to consolidate the principles that build the future of Colombia, through the integral formation, the generation and development of knowledge in all forms and expressions, to consolidate itself more and more as a development factor in scientific, cultural, economic and ethics, in contexts such as local, regional, domestic and international. More...
