Events by TJD

Edu­ca­tion on Tech­nol­o­gy for Human Security

How can tech­nol­o­gy edu­ca­tion meet human secu­ri­ty needs while impart­ing the knowl­edge need­ed to min­i­mize the side effects of technologicaldeployment?

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Trans­dis­ci­pli­nary Per­spec­tives for Human 

Explor­ing how edu­ca­tion can sup­port human secu­ri­ty for all through trans­dis­ci­pli­nary, holis­tic, human-cen­tered perspectives.

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Edu­ca­tion in the Arts for Human Security

Lib­er­al arts edu­ca­tion as a pow­er­ful medi­um for pro­mot­ing social aware­ness, under­stand­ing, val­ues and com­mit­ment to human secu­ri­ty for all.

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The Human­is­tic Approach 

Explor­ing changes in con­tent and ped­a­gogy that can make the full spec­trum of human­i­ties edu­ca­tion a more effec­tive and con­scious tool to pro­mote Human Secu­ri­ty for All.

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In the cur­rent cli­mate change sce­nario, solv­ing the envi­ron­men­tal imbal­ances can be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to build a renewed per­spec­tive of society’s progress and wel­fare, hav­ing as a start­ing point the con­cil­i­a­tion of eco­nom­ic, social, and envi­ron­men­tal interests.

In this sense, the 4^th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of CEGOT has a sig­nif­i­cant objec­tive to debate the role of Geog­ra­phy in the Con­struc­tion of Sus­tain­able Territories.

In an impor­tant moment in the His­to­ry of Human­i­ty, Geog­ra­phy has an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to reaf­firm itself as Science.

Prof. Dr. Ben­no Werlen deliv­ered as keynote speak­er the conference’s open­ing lec­ture on ​“Glob­al Under­stand­ing – Under­stand­ing the Glob­al Con­di­tion. A new geo­graph­i­cal par­a­digm for the 21^st cen­tu­ry?” on Wednes­day, Octo­ber 26, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Under the slo­gan ​“con­nect, empow­er, and trans­form”, the Glob­al Cit­i­zen­ship Con­ven­tion (GCC) has tak­en place at the Friedrich Schiller Uni­ver­si­ty of Jena from Octo­ber 13 – 21. More than 70 par­tic­i­pants from 20 dif­fer­ent coun­tries par­tic­i­pat­ed in the conference.

The pri­ma­ry motive of the Glob­al Cit­i­zen­ship Con­ven­tion 2022 is to bring peo­ple togeth­er from all over the world, to con­nect them, and to enable an exchange of young pio­neers, prac­ti­tion­ers, and experts to devel­op col­lab­o­ra­tive solutions.

Prof. Dr. Ben­no Werlen deliv­ered an intro­duc­to­ry pre­sen­ta­tion to the pan­el dis­cus­sion ​“Mak­ing Sense of the World” on the top­ic ​“Cul­tur­al and Region­al Dimen­sion of Glob­al Sus­tain­abil­i­ty”. He also par­tic­i­pat­ed in the sub­se­quent World Café.

More infor­ma­tion: The Glob­al Cit­i­zen­ship Convention

What can our lives and our liv­ing togeth­er look like in the future that is per­me­at­ed by sus­tain­abil­i­ty? What can a cul­ture of sus­tain­abil­i­ty look like? These ques­tions are debat­ed at the UNESCO Chairs Con­fer­ence « Cul­tures for Sus­tain­able Futures » at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Jena by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of UNESCO Chairs, artists, com­mit­ted cit­i­zens as well as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of inter­na­tion­al organizations.

The videos of the con­fer­ence on youtube

Every six months, the EC2U Alliance orga­nizes a week to pro­mote open dia­logue on press­ing soci­etal issues and share best prac­tices. The 4^th EC2U Forum was host­ed by Uni­ver­sità di Pavia from April 4 – 7, 2022 in Pavia as a hybrid event. Stu­dents, teach­ers, researchers, employ­ees of all sev­en EC2U uni­ver­si­ties, and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the sev­en cities gath­ered to con­tin­ue the ongo­ing work to build the Alliance. Prof. Dr. Ben­no Werlen, UNESCO Chair on Glob­al Under­stand­ing for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty at Friedrich Schiller Uni­ver­si­ty, deliv­ered the keynote address on ​“Cul­tur­al and region­al dimen­sions of glob­al sus­tain­abil­i­ty” at the ​“SCC Vir­tu­al Insti­tute” on April 6^th.

The Jena Dec­la­ra­tion @ Inter­na­tion­al UNESCO Chairs Forum at Expo Dubai

Italy and UNESCO at Expo 2020 Dubai joint­ly orga­nized the Inter­na­tion­al UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of High­er Edu­ca­tion to mark the Inter­na­tion­al Day of Edu­ca­tion 2022. The Forum fits with­in the over­all frame­work of UNESCO’s Futures of Edu­ca­tion ini­tia­tive which seeks to gen­er­ate an agen­da for glob­al debate, research, and action on the futures of edu­ca­tion, learn­ing, and knowl­edge in a world of increas­ing com­plex­i­ty, uncer­tain­ty, and pre­car­i­ty. The Jena Dec­la­ra­tion has been pre­sent­ed in the last sec­tion of the con­fer­ence as a part­ner­ing project of the Ital­ian UNESCO Chairs Dec­la­ra­tion for Sustainability.

5^th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Future Edu­ca­tion is orga­nized by the World Uni­ver­si­ty Con­sor­tium and World Acad­e­my of Art & Sci­ence. This con­fer­ence will exam­ine the chal­lenges in high­er edu­ca­tion today, and iden­ti­fy cat­alyt­ic strate­gies capa­ble of address­ing glob­al prob­lems, sup­port­ing imple­men­ta­tion of the UN SDGs and Human Secu­ri­ty for all.

The Jena Dec­la­ra­tion was pre­sent­ed on Decem­ber 6, 4 – 5 PM in the frame­work of:

Glob­al Lead­er­ship Chal­lenge in High­er Edu­ca­tion for Effec­tive Mul­ti­lat­er­al­ism & Sus­tain­able Human Security

Chair: Ben­no Werlen

Pan­elists

- Mam­phela Ram­phele: Co-Pres­i­dent, The Club of Rome
- Anne Snick: Philoso­pher of Edu­ca­tion KU Uni­ver­si­ty Leu­ven, Club of Rome; Fel­low WAAS
- Joanne Kauff­man: Inde­pen­dent Expert, Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Sci­ence, for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of
Tech­nol­o­gy (MIT).
- Fad­wa El Guin­di: Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gist, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les; trustee WAAS
- Sander van der Leeuw: Direc­tor of the ASU-SFI Cen­ter for Bioso­cial Com­plex Sys­tems, Ari­zona State
Uni­ver­si­ty
- Car­los Alvarez-Pereira: Exec­u­tive com­mit­tee, The Club of Rome; Fel­low, World Acad­e­my of Art &
Sci­ence
- Luiz Oost­er­beek: Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tion­al Coun­cil for Phi­los­o­phy and the Human Sci­ences
(CIPSH)
- Howard Blu­men­thal: Founder, Kids on Earth; Pro­duc­er, Rein­vent­ing School, The Uni­ver­si­ty of
Penn­syl­va­nia
- Paul Shri­vas­ta­va: Direc­tor of the Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Insti­tute and Chief Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Offi­cer, Penn­syl­va­nia
State Uni­ver­si­ty, Mem­ber of The Club of Rome

In coop­er­a­tion between RWYC and the Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion & Cul­ture of the Repub­lic of Indone­sia presents the 1^st Inter­na­tion­al RWYC Con­fer­ence 2021, ​“Recon­nect­ing with Your Cul­ture in The World” — We are Ambas­sadors of Culture. 

BACK­GROUND

Ana­lyz­ing the real­i­ties of dif­fer­ent coun­tries of the world, from the Far East to the far West, there is a need to acti­vate a new ​“human­ism” and for this rea­son, it is nec­es­sary that Cul­ture enters ful­ly into the whole ideation of the new and inno­va­tion on which it is impor­tant from now on to invest. To do all this, how­ev­er, we must start from the younger gen­er­a­tions and then plant seeds to obtain good fruits and there­fore a very good har­vest in the near future.

In con­junc­tion with Nation­al Cul­tur­al Week (Pekan Kebu­dayaan Nasion­al 2021) in Indone­sia, it is the right moment to hold an Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence address­ing Cul­ture. We would be pre­sent­ing the inter­na­tion­al ped­a­gog­i­cal project ​“Recon­nect­ing with your Cul­ture” pro­mot­ed by the EdA Inter­na­tion­al Research Cen­ter Esem­pi di Architet­tura and UNESCO Uni­ver­si­ty and Her­itage. The project pur­sues the ​“Qual­i­ty edu­ca­tion” objec­tives of the UN 2030 Agen­da. The ped­a­gog­i­cal method ​“Recon­nect­ing with your cul­ture” brings chil­dren and young peo­ple clos­er to the themes of cul­ture and civic for­ma­tion because only by know­ing and enhanc­ing their respec­tive cul­tur­al her­itages is it pos­si­ble to appre­ci­ate the present and build the future well. For these rea­sons, it is very impor­tant to hold this Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence address­ing Cul­ture in Nation­al Cul­tur­al Week (PKN 2021).

AIMS

• Intro­duc­ing RWYC ped­a­gog­i­cal method to Indone­sia and Inter­na­tion­al audiences.
• To bring young gen­er­a­tions clos­er to the val­ues and con­tent of local cul­tures, at the same time expos­ing them to the diver­si­ty of cul­ture in the world.
• To open dia­logu­ing between nations based on cul­ture address­ing cul­ture edu­ca­tion to the young generation.
• To share cul­tur­al knowl­edge from Indone­sia and Inter­na­tion­al participants.
• To present some per­for­mance, craft­ed, draw­ing or oth­er cul­tur­al prod­ucts from chil­dren in Indone­sia and Inter­na­tion­al as well.

CON­CEPT OF ACTIVITY

RWYC Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence con­sists of online activ­i­ties through the zoom plat­form to intro­duce the ped­a­gog­i­cal method of RWYC Inter­na­tion­al pre­sent­ed by Glob­al Direc­tor of RWYC Inter­na­tion­al Prof. Olimpia Niglio. The RWYC Indone­sia com­mit­tee will also present the results of the RWYC work­shop in Indone­sia. As one of the ini­tia­tors, the Direc­torate Gen­er­al of Cul­ture of the Repub­lic of Indone­sia Dr. Hilmar Farid will join the conference.

RWYC Net­work, around the world from 4 con­ti­nents will also join as par­tic­i­pants and speak­ers as well. We also have the inten­tion to invite the Min­is­ter of Edu­ca­tion and Cul­ture of the Repub­lic of Indone­sia H.E. Nadiem Makarim.

Par­tic­i­pa­tion is open to the pub­lic in Indone­sia (espe­cial­ly the Edu­ca­tion Bureau from all provinces) and Inter­na­tion­al as well, includ­ing all chil­dren that have par­tic­i­pat­ed in RWYC work­shops from around the world.

This activ­i­ty is an event that is inde­pen­dent pure­ly from ini­tia­tives to sup­port Qual­i­ty Edu­ca­tion in Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals no. 4 pro­claimed by the Unit­ed Nations (SDG UN Goals 2030).

CON­FER­ENCE THEMES

“Recon­nect­ing with Your Cul­ture in the World”
Tagline: We are ambas­sadors of Culture

AGEN­DA

09.00 Open­ing and Intro­duc­tion by Host
09.10 Mes­sage from the Pres­i­dent of RWYC Inter­na­tion­al by Prof. Olimpia Niglio
09.15 Mes­sage from the Direc­torate Gen­er­al of Cul­ture of Repub­lic of Indone­sia by Dr. Hilmar Farid
09.35 Expo­sure About RWYC by Prof. Olimpia Niglio
10.00 Les­son Learned RWYC (RWYC Net­work) by Prof. Rana P.B. Singh and Prof. Adi­ti Mis­ra
10.20 Pre­sen­ta­tion of RWYC Indone­sia (results of RWYC work­shop in Indone­sia) by Dr. Mira Sar­ti­ka
10.40 Video Pre­sen­ta­tion and exhi­bi­tion from chil­dren around the world includ­ing from Indone­sia,
Japan, India, Latin Amer­i­ca, Europe and Africa
10.50 Mes­sage from UNESCO Chair on Glob­al Under­stand­ing for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty at the Friedrich
Schiller Uni­ver­si­ty Jena by Prof. Ben­no Werlen. Fol­low with sign­ing cer­e­mo­ni­al the
Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing between UNESCO Chair and RWYC Inter­na­tion­al.
10.55 Mes­sage from the Min­is­ter of Edu­ca­tion, Cul­ture, Research, and Tech­nol­o­gy of the #
Repub­lic of Indone­sia
11:00 Clos­ing

The 5^th Leisure Expo and Forum
Octo­ber 15 – 17, 2021, Hangzhou, China

The 5^th World Leisure Expo and Forum was host­ed by the World Leisure Orga­ni­za­tion (WLO) and the Hangzhou Munic­i­pal Peo­ple’s Gov­ern­ment on ​“Dig­i­tal Smart Future. Liv­able Par­adise”. Estab­lished in 1952, the WLO is a world­wide asso­ci­a­tion, non-gov­ern­men­tal and non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion, that pro­motes leisure as an inte­gral part of social, cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic, and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. The UNESCO Chair hold­er was invit­ed as the Founder and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Glob­al Under­stand­ing and Chair of the IGU Research Group ​‘Glob­al Understanding’, 

The deliv­ered online pre­sen­ta­tion you find here: 

5^th World Leisure Organization

The online kick-off event will fea­tures con­tri­bu­tions from promi­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the JD action lines, (arts, learn­ing and civ­il soci­ety). They include, among oth­ers, Mam­phela Ram­phele, Co-Pres­i­dent, The Club of Rome; Mir­wais Sidi­ki, Musi­col­o­gist, Afghanistan; youth activists such as Luisa Neubauer, Ger­many; and per­for­mances by artists includ­ing Andy Innes and his group, Musi­cian, South Africa.

All videos of the event on salve​.tv

The Euro­pean Human­i­ties Con­fer­ence will take place from May 5 – 7, 2021 in Lis­bon and as an online event. The con­fer­ence that will be held under the Por­tuguese Pres­i­den­cy of the Coun­cil of the Euro­pean Union will address top­ics such as ​“Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Dynam­ics as Edu­ca­tion and R&D strate­gies for mean­ing­ful prob­lem solv­ing“, ​“Her­itage, mobil­i­ty and iden­ti­ties“, ​“Influ­ence and impact of the Human­i­ties in soci­ety“, and ​“The Human­i­ties in the 21^st Cen­tu­ry“. Ben­no Werlen serves as a mem­ber of the con­fer­ence’s sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee and as one of the ambas­sadors of the EHC (see here).

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Vir­tu­al Con­fer­ence
Octo­ber 21 – 22, 2020
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The online con­fer­ence ​“Human­i­ties and Social Sci­ences for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty”, orga­nized by the UNESCO Chair at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Jena (Ger­many), was held from Octo­ber 21 – 22, 2020 at the vir­tu­al Dorn­burg Palaces. Under the aus­pices of the Cana­di­an Com­mis­sion for UNESCO, 24 speak­ers and dis­cus­sants from all parts of the world debat­ed new strate­gies to strength­en human­i­ties and social sci­ences per­spec­tives in sus­tain­abil­i­ty research and policies.

Enter the vir­tu­al conference