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INTERNATIONALBARCELONA CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

May 13-152013

6th LET’S BUILD TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE TO DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE

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Dear Sir/Madam,

As representatives of the founding members of the Global University Network

for Innovation (GUNi), we are pleased to welcome you to the 6th International

Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, Let’s build transformative

knowledge to drive social change. The Conference, hosted by the Universitat

Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), is organized by GUNi with

the collaboration of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), the

Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research (GACER) and UNESCO Chair

in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education in

Victoria University.

GUNi proposes in this edition to discuss on Knowledge, Engagement & Higher

Education. We aim to call upon policy-makers, leaders and practitioners of the

higher education institutions around the world to rethink social responsibilities

of higher education and to become a part of a hub of societal innovation. The

Conference tries to provide visibility and to critically examine community-

university engagement as one of the most significant key features in the evolution

of higher education over the last 10-15 years.

We invite all of you to actively participate in the Conference as an open space to

share and learn together; with the conviction that it is by taking action that we

can build transformative knowledge to drive social change.

We very much hope you will enjoy this event.

Yours faithfully,

David Atchoarena David Malone Antoni GiróDirector Rector UPC RectorDivision for ED/THE UNU GUNi PresidentUNESCO

GUNi Founders Members welcome

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Supported by:

Sponsored by:

GLOBAL ALLIANCEON COMMUNITYENGAGED RESEARCH

Generalitatde Catalunya

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Dear Friends,

In our role as organizers of the 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher

Education, we would like to add our welcome and our deep appreciation to each

and every one of you for taking time from your other responsibilities, for finding

the resources to come to Barcelona and for agreeing to share your experiences,

your struggles, your passions and your dreams.

In spite of the difficult context that we are all experiencing a large part of the

global leadership of the community university engagement movement will be here

together. We are coming as activists in civil society, as Heads of Universities, as

researchers and scholars, as leaders in national and global networks, as public

service workers and funding agencies.

As the title of our conference says, “Let’s Build Transformative Knowledge to Drive

Social Change and Be Knowledgiastic”

Wishing you a wonderful experience,

Budd L. Hall Cristina Escrigas Rajesh TandoonCo-Chair, GUNi Executive Director President, PRIA Community-Based Research

Organizers welcome

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DAY BEFORE: Sunday 12thMAY 2013

16:00 - 18:00 BIG TENT MEETINGABBA GARDEN HOTEL

DAY 1: Monday 13thMAY 2013

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09:00 - 14:00 REGISTRATION HALL

09:30 - 13:00 PARALLEL SIDE-EVENTS VERTEx BuiLDiNGCopernicus Alliance Network, uNu institute of Advanced Studies & Regional Centres of ExpertiseVS208Latin American universities Meeting, Organized by CLAYSSVS210PASCAL workshopVS219institutionalization of Service Learning in Spanish universitiesVS217GACER and PRiA: Mainstreaming Community-based Participatory ResearchSALA D’ACTES

15:00 - 16:00WELCOME ADDRESS AuDiTORiChair: Antoni Giró, Rector uPC & GuNi PresidentPaulina Gonzalez-Pose, Head of the Higher Education Section, uNESCO Luk van Langenhoven, Director of the uNu institute on Comparative Regional integration Studies (uNu-CRiS)David Malone, Rector of the united Nations university (uNu) (video)Federico Morán Abad, General Secretary of universities, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Government of SpainAndreu Mas-Colell, Minister for Economy and Knowledge, Catalan Government

16:00 - 18:30OPENING SESSION AuDiTORi

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION Budd Hall, Canada; Cristina Escrigas, Spain; Rajesh Tandon, india This session will introduce how to build transformative knowledge to drive social change and the seven key issues that have been selected for the conference offering new visions and ways for the future. They are: Learning to read reality, Building the world we imagine; Why engagement is critical for social change?; Building partnership: making cooperation mainstream; Enlarging the conception of knowledge; Redefining political frameworks and structures for making engagement to happen and Engagement with added value and collective impact.

BUILDING THE WORLD WE IMAGINEChair: Jesús Granados, SpainWith the collaboration of Bruno Jayme de Oliveira, Brazil; Crystal Tremblay, Canada; Melba Claudio-González, Puerto Rico; Mireia Rey, SpainThis session will explore the vision of the world we want. We need to re-invent all systems that organize life: economic, political, environmental and social, to respond to new needs, overcoming the limitations and undesirable side effects of the models that we have used up to date. What is at stake is the very concept of the idea of progress. The session will present fresh and innovative ideas and visions of students, practitioners and scholars with the aim to share everyone’s imagined world. Education has a big intergenerational responsibility in building the world we imagine.

18:30 - 19:00WELCOME COCKTAILHALL & GARDEN

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DAY 2: Tuesday 14thMAY 2013

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09:00 - 10:30 WHY IS ENGAGEMENT CRITICAL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE?AuDiTORi Chair: Axel Didriksson, MexicoDzulkifli Razak, Malaysia; Robert Hollister, uSA; Shirley Walters, South AfricaEngagement necessarily entails struggles for change and transformation that require altering the current social structures and power relations. Engagement is key in breaking the conformity of thought by proactively criticizing the world of ideas and transforming those paradigms and beliefs established in the social systems about how we organize our community. With this key idea we want to discuss how community engagement is central for the creation of a new citizenship.

10:30 - 13:00 BUILDING PARTNERSHIP: MAKING COOPERATION MAINSTREAMAuDiTORi Barbara ibrahim Egypt; Mike Osborne, united KingdomPartnership is the central aspect in developing community engagement initiatives that deal with the issues of people. A partnership is a way of being and a way of working with others that implies mutual understanding, common good, reciprocity, collaboration in decision making and transparency regarding outcomes.

PARALLEL WORKSHOPSVERTEx BuiLDiNGWorkshop 1. Joanna Ochocka, CanadaVS217Workshop 2. Andrew Furco, uSAVS208Workshop 3. Lorlene Hoyt, uSAVS216Workshop 4. Carlos Cortez, MexicoVS218

13:00 - 14:00LUNCHHALL & GARDEN

14:00 - 16:00GOOD PRACTICES ON COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENTVERTEx BuiLDiNG Community-based research. Juliet Millican, uKVS208Science Shops & CBR. Norbert Steinhaus, GermanySALA D’ACTESEngaged scholarship. Jerome Slamat, South AfricaVS210Knowledge mobilization. Sophie Duncan, uKVS213Academic enterprise. Judith Favish, South AfricaVS214Service-learning i. Lorraine Mcilrath, irelandVS216Service-learning ii. Carol Ma, ChinaVS217Service-learning iii. Julia Preece, South AfricaVS218

16:00 - 16:30COFFEE BREAKHALL

16:30 - 18:30ENLARGING THE CONCEPTION OF KNOWLEDGEAuDiTORiChair: Cristina Escrigas, SpainFrançois Vallaeys, France; Jesús Granados, Spain; Lean Chan, Malaysia; Manuel Ramiro Muñoz, Colombia; Paul Wangoola, ugandaIn this session we will discuss what we understand by knowledge and its role in society, and how engagement contributes to make all cosmologies of knowledge count.

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DAY 3: Wednesday 15thMAY 2013

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09:00 - 12:00 REDEFINING POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS AND STRUCTURES TO MAKE ENGAGEMENT HAPPENAuDiTORiChair: Paul Manners, uKM. Nieves Tapia, Argentina; Paul Benneworth, The Netherlands; Andrew Petter, CanadaAdapt and create appropriated structures at all levels is key for the mainstreaming of community-university engagement. The session will examine inspiring institutional design examples, the most relevant national policies, political frameworks and the role of networks, and how they have contributed to a scholar’s cultural change.

PARALLEL WORKSHOPSVERTEx BuiLDiNGinstitutional Structures. Edward T. Jackson, CanadaVS208Policy. Paul Manners, uKVS214Funding. Claudia Neubauer, FranceVS213Networks. Michael Cuthill, AustraliaVS218

12:00 - 13:00POSTERS SESSIONS ON COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENTHALL

13:00 - 14:00LUNCHHALL & GARDEN

14:00 - 16:30 ENGAGEMENT WITH ADDED VALUE AND COLLECTIVE IMPACTAuDiTORiGeorge Openjuru, uganda; Hans G. Schuetze, Canada; Hiram Fitzgerald, uSA; John Saltmarsh, uSA (video)This session is about quality assurance of engagement. The session will discuss the need of a system of indicators that measures the quality of engagement, and how it can be generated in ways that is consistent with the spirit of engagement and that engages all actors together. The session will also explore ways in which the system of indicators of engagement can be defined collectively and be introduced in the international agenda.

16:30 - 16:45COFFEE BREAKHALL

16:45 - 18:30CLOSING SESSIONAuDiTORiBiG TENT - GLOBAL COMMuNiQuÉNorbert Steinhaus, Germany; Lean Chan, MalaysiaRiYADH DECLARATiON ON SOCiAL RESPONSiBiLiTYSalem Malik, Saudi ArabiaFiNAL REMARKSBudd Hall, Canada; Cristina Escrigas, Spain; Rajesh Tandon, india

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7 key issues on Community University

Engagement (CuE)

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1_ Learning to read realityWe know we cannot solve problems by using the same

kind of thinking we used when we created them, but we continue feeding an outdated system. We need to re-invent ourselves as society and how we organize ourselves. We must integrate the emerging idea of social innovation and revise the conception of what human progress is. In this matter, higher education’s greatest challenge in the coming years is to materialize the contribution made by knowledge to building a new reality and a sustainable future for humanity and for the planet.

2_ Building the world we imagine

We must reconsider the world we are creating, and Education has a big intergenerational responsibility in building the world we imagine, the world we want and the world we deserve. The paradigm shift must move from disconnection, individual competitiveness, economic profitability and a short-term focus, to enthusiasm, cooperation, individual and social responsibility for the common good, and long term sustainability. It is about new ways of knowing and learning how to be human.

3_ Why is engagement critical for social change?

Engagement is not just an idea, but a set of practical actions, which necessarily entail struggles for change and transformation that require altering the current social structures and power relations. Engagement is key in breaking the conformity of thought by proactively criticizing the world of ideas and transforming those paradigms and beliefs established in the social systems about how we organize our community. Community engagement is central for the creation of a new citizenship. The challenge for higher education institutions is to analyze why, for what, and how CUE takes place to ensure a positive social process of transformation, and to approach it in an integrated manner, in which engagement enhances teaching and research.

4_ Building partnership: making cooperation mainstream

Partnership is the central aspect in developing CUE initiatives that deal with the issues of people. A partnership is a way of being and a way of working with others that implies mutual understanding, common good, reciprocity, collaboration in decision making, and transparency regarding outcomes.

5_ Enlarging the conception of knowledge

We need to rethink what we understand by knowledge and its role in society. Knowledge is not complete and no longer produced exclusively by and consumed within universities. In this context, there is an emerging task for HEIs to become cosmopolitan centres of global culture by building bridges between different cultures, different kinds and sources of knowledge, and between knowledge and citizenship. This involves the necessary decolonization of knowledge and the need to establish an open dialogue between scientific and indigenous knowledge among others.

6_ Redefining structures and political frameworks for making engagement to happen

If we want universities to be transformative they have to transform themselves first. Adapting and creating appropriate structures at all levels is key for the mainstreaming of CUE. Current evidences of change include the implementation of top-down policies by universities to support CUE, the promulgation of educational laws at national level that place engagement and social responsibility as one of the main important elements of education, and also the contribution of networks acting as lobby for the mainstreaming of this movement.

7_ Engagement with added value and collective impact

There exists a need to measure the quality of engagement, and how it can be generated in ways that is consistent with the spirit of engagement and that engages all actors together. By collective impact we understand a substantial impact on a large scale social issue, which meets five conditions: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication and a backbone organization.

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CreditsORGANiziNG COMMiTTEEBudd Hall, CanadaRajesh Tandon, india

Melba Claudio-González Àngels CortinaCristina EscrigasÁlvaro García Jesús GranadosMarta FornsAdriana NadalGemma Puig

TECHNiCAL SECRETARiATManners Congressos

TECHNiCAL SuPPORTManuel FernándezJordi Gómez

DESiGNCarme Guri

PHOTOGRAPHERShayna Hadley, Canada

CREATiVE COLLABORATORSTaller de músics Roger SabartéJoan PalàMarc MenéndezTHE WORLD WE iMAGiNE SESSiONPerformanceDirector: Mireia Rey Actors: Marta Codina, Marc CarapetoParticipative activity Bruno Jayme, BrazilJesús Granados, SpainSession coordinationMelba G. Claudio-González, Puerto RicoVideo editingCrystal Tremblay, Canada

REPORTERSÍngrid Agud, SpainJulie Cunningham, CanadaMarta Gual, SpainMarta López, SpainAngelina Sánchez, SpainSara Segundo, SpainHalliki Voolma, united Kingdom

STuDENTSYulieth Acevedo Agudelo, Colombia Albukhary international university in Malaysia, Nepal Gustavo Arango Tabares, Colombia Leidy Johanna Baenal, Colombia Jennifer Bennett, Canada Afua Boahene, uSA Butrint Bozalija, Malaysia Alejandro Bueno Ossa, Colombia Linda Cavanaugh, Canada Eugenia Cerna Hinojosa, Chile Chautauqua Charter School, uSAJose Consul Gonsalves Junior, Australia CQuniversity Australia, Australia David Fernando Castaño López, Colombia Laura Franco Mejia, Colombia Carlomagno Gabriel, Mexico Suzanne Gaulocher, uSA Jamie Haft, uSA Kaitlin Hardy, uSA Faseeha Harthim, Sri Lanka / Malaysia Wendy Krauza, Canada Carlos Mario Quintero Gómez, Colombia Luis Carlos Monsalve, Colombia Andrea Montoya Garcia, Colombia Mohamed Muizzu Abbas, Malaysia Johnny Alexander Muñoz Jiménez, ColombiaLeonardo Naranjo, ColombiaNanya Pérez Martínez, MexicoDanielle Preiss, uSAJohn Eduard Ramirez, ColombiaErika Romero Correa, ColombiaPablo Romo Alvárez, MexicoArely Sánchez León, MexicoDavid Alexander Tafur Rodríguez, ColombiaGonzalo ulloa, ColombiaLaura Maria uribe Valencia, Colombia Javier Vasquez, Colombia Holly zahn, uSA Héctor zapata Ríos, Colombia

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