UNESCO Chairs Seminars
Futures of Higher Education
Seminar 2: Knowledge-driven actions – Transforming higher education for global sustainability
Wednesday 15 February 2023, 17:00-18:30 (Paris time)
Dear UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks,
Dear Colleagues,
We thank you for your interest in the second of our series of three UNESCO Chairs Seminars on the Futures of Higher Education, co-organized with UNESCO’s Higher Education Section. If you have not yet registered your participation, we warmly encourage you to do so at the following link:
** Register here **
Seminar 2 will discuss Knowledge-driven actions: Transforming higher education for global sustainability, a report prepared by the Independent Expert Group on Universities and the 2030 Agenda.It will take place online on Wednesday 15 February 2023, 17:00-18:30 (Paris time), with English and French interpretation. Together we will explore the possibilities and challenges for transformations in higher education, to continue conversations initiated at the 3rd World Higher Education Conference in May 2022.
Please also save the date for Seminar 3:
· Seminar 3: Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:30 (Paris time)
Reimagining Our Futures Together: A new social contract for education,Report from the International Commission on the Futures of Education, UNESCO 2021.
Click here to register for Seminar 3
We would like to thank everyone who joined UNESCO Chairs Seminar 1, Beyond Limits: New Ways to Reinvent Higher Education, on UNESCO’s Higher Education Roadmap. You can watch the recording here in English or French. The open call for contributions to enrich the Roadmap is still on the WHEC2022 website (deadline: 15 February 2023).
Finally, if you are attending the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES2023) conference from a UNESCO Chair or UNITWIN Network (Washington D.C., 18-22 February) please do let us know in advance.
Please feel free to forward this message to your networks. You may also propose a future UNESCO Chairs Seminar by emailing us: unitwin@unesco.org
We hope that you can make it to Seminars 2 and 3.
Best wishes,
UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme Team
Futures of Learning and Innovation
