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HES 2021: Daring to transform learning - for a future proof economy (Past)
This is an International online mini-conference about transforming (higher) education for a future proof economy.
Please Note: This event has now finished and can no longer be joined.
During this international mini-conference, we bring together the changemakers who, each from their discipline, want to rethink our economy into a safe and fair space for humanity through higher education.
You will have the opportunity to engage with these inspirational keynote speakers:
- Kate Raworth, known for her bestseller 'Doughnut economics: seven steps to an economy for the 21st century’
- Mamphela Ramphele, co-president of the Club of Rome
- Garry Jacobs, CEO of the World Academy of Art & Science
- Learn with Jelleke de Nooy van Tol (Catalyst4Change) how the 4 E's can support transition processes for safe and just humanity (engage, encourage, enable, exemplify)
- Write your story with Wendy Wuyts (author of 'Als Meubels Konden Spreken') to infuse the circular economy with social aspects via creative writing
- Take action with Bruno Delepierre (Happonomy) to get more quality of life from less consumption, or in short, to consume more consciously
- Step into the middle of society with Kathia Reynders (KU Leuven & UHasselt) in order to make the world more sustainable via Community Service Learning
- Organise with Sara Gilissen (UCLL) online and offline bootcamps with students and entrepreneurs about the circular economy using design thinking
- Learn with Evy Puelinckx & Griet Verbeeck (UHasselt) how students work with companies using the City Portrait Canvas to develop a project for a donut economy
- Explore with Gerben Nap (Social Trade Organisation) what higher education institutions can do locally to show the way to a more sustainable economy
- Create with Maha Ech-Chefaa (Enactus Morocco) social innovations to change the world locally and globally
- Discover your own misconceptions about other cultures and decolonise the curriculum in higher education with Latifah Abdou & Sebastian Van Hoeck (WeDecolonizeVUB & UCOS)
- Modernise economics education with Sam de Muijnck (Our New Economy) to engage young people for a better world
- Discover with Marilyn Mehlmann and Miriam Sannum (Legacy17) the role of money in society and what 'good money' for a better economic future can look like
You can register for the workshop of your choice when registering for the Higher Education Summit.
We will close the summit with a live debate between changemakers in business, higher education and students.
Will you take up the gauntlet for a more sustainable world? Register at our website and we see you on the 9th of December.
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Veronica Johnson
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Magali Audras
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Clothilde Saunier
Lille, France
PhD Student in Lille, I study Environmental Policy & Local Government
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Alexis Lalevée
Troyes, Grand-Est, France
Researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), I an interesting in Sustainability and I see the Doughnut as a tool to facilitate exchanges between researchers and the Society
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Ken Novak
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa USA
Ken Novak, Ph.D. is a public speaker, father of eight children, retired military officer, a hospice bereavement support chaplain and adjunct university professor. I do believe the future belongs to the storyteller, and donut economics is rewriting the narrative of our shared humanity. Currently, I am trying a new project with my business ethics students in seeing if they can help "advise" Mr. Tom Vazzo, CEO of Homeboys Inc. and author of The Homeboy Way, in considering how his desire for "Economic Equality Capitalism" (p.146) can be framed within the considerations of donut economics, especially with respect to the social foundation. Mr. Vazzo's "new way forward" includes a radical idea of putting "our best business minds to use in creating companies with huge employment returns as opposed to creating companies with huge financial returns as the priority" (p.149). That's bending the curve of growth toward people, and specific for Vazzo's consideration it means "invest[ing] in people who are just beginning to see life bloom before them." #socialjustice, ,
