hednews frontpage — Global University Network for Innovation

Document Actions

Higher Education News: News on Higher Education; The Washington Center call for Civic Engagement Awards
The award recognizes institutions achieving breadth and depth of civic engagement through sustained and mutually transformational partnerships that define and address issues of public concern from local to global levels
Read more...

Call for submissions on Community and Civic Engagement
The All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of scholarly research into Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Read more...

Chilean Universities finish community projects supported by Talloires Network
The projects addressed a diversity of goals with an emphasis on serving women and girls
Read more...; More News...

GUNi.Highlights: About our activities; GUNi announces its new representatives in Latin America & The Caribbean
Changes in the presidency and secretariat of the regional representation
Read more...

6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education: Let’s Build Transformative Knowledge to Drive Social Change
If you are working on Community-based research (CBR), engaged scholarship, academic enterprise, knowledge mobilization, implementation science and research utilization, science shops and service-learning, this is your conference!
Read more...

COPERNICUS Alliance and UNU IAS team up for a side event at the 6th GUNi Conference
The goal is to share learnings, challenges and successes in engaging higher education communities in social change for sustainability
Read more...; More News...

GUNi.Talks: Interviews; Budd Hall & Rajesh Tandon - Guest editors of the GUNi 6th Conference
In this interview Budd Hall, Secretary of the Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research, and Rajesh Tandon, Founder and Chief Functionary of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), elaborate on the main themes of the upcoming GUNi 6th Conference: transformative knowledge and the importance of community-university engagement for social transformation.
Read more...

Daniel Mato
In this interview, Daniel Mato presents the Project “Cultural Diversity, Interculturality and Higher Education" of the International Institute of UNESCO for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), which analyzes the current demands and access conditions of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant students within the different types of Latin American Higher Education Institutions, and assesses their impact, responsibilities and challenges in regards to intercultural education, amongst other issues.
Read more...

William Scott
In this interview William Scott, emeritus professor at the University of Bath and director of the South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition, highlights that students need to be helped in seeing connections between the sustainability-related issues they study formally in their degrees, and real-world sustainability activities.
Read more...

Cristina Carballo
In this interview Cristina Carballo, from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, explains her vision of the university in Argentina and how the challenges of sustainability and cultural diversity have been addressed.
Read more...

Mercè Junyent Pubill
In this interview, Mercè Junyent talks about the competencies of Higher Education professionals on sustainability and highlights the least developed competencies and what are the training needs for Higher Education professionals.
Read more...; More Talks...