Events & Activities

Round Table - (Dis)advantages of teaching the humanities and social sciences

Country of Venue: Poland
Event Leading Organisation: Adam Mickiewicz Uniersity in Poznan

Date: November 23, 2022

The Round Table in Poznan that will take place approximately in the middle of the project will serve to promote the project among specialists and to provide valuable feedback for the next phase. The event will be based on completely new data obtained by analysing the psychosocial aspects of HE of SSH (result 01). The round table will be organized as a one-day event consisting of experts from all participating institutions and other experts and will also be open to virtual participants. We expect the participation of the management members from all participating universities and possibly other managers from other institutions. The aim of the round table will be to share the newly acquired knowledge, discuss it among experts and HE managers and improve it together for further use in the project. All experts in SSH education and the psychosocial aspects of the field are welcome.

Workshop on Intercultural Skills

Country of Venue: Slovakia
Event Leading Organisation: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Date: September 13, 2023

The workshop intends to support the education of HE teachers and to equip them with appropriate mentoring knowledge and skills for development of innovative curricula and materials for further education and continuous professional development. The event will be based on preliminary results of
intercultural dimension analysis (result 02) and address topical issues as intercultural skills, internationalization at home, internationalization of curriculum, minorities, gender and national identities in the HE of SSH. The event will be open for all HE teachers of SSH aiming to develop their pedagocial knowledge and skills in accordance with the changing world of the 21st century. The active participants in the workshop are therefore supposed to describe the basic plan of the project works and research and to enable broader brainstorming activities coming from the involved academic public from all related disciplines to university education, history, sociology and social sciences.

International Conference & Workshop

Country of Venue: Czech Republic
Event Leading Organisation: University of Hradec Králové

Date: May 15-17, 2024

The international conference and workshop will be held in the last year of the project implementation and will serve as a preparatory phase for finalizing the main research project results and as the closing ceremony of the project. The participants will be invited to participate in lectures, seminars and workshops of parallel events – the international conference (providing professional platform for international academic discussion on the topic) and workshop (focused on joint discovering of the best practice of involved attendees). The event will take place in Hradec Králové and will be organized as a three-day event with a wide participation of experts specializing in the theory of university education, “ordinary” HE teachers who are willing to deepen their pedagogical skills and other relevant stakeholders. The event will be based on the preliminary form of project results 03 and 04 and will address general approaches and principles of teaching SSH at universities, thus providing valuable feedback for the finalization of the above results 03-04 (the handbook and elearning materials) from external participants. The event will be open to all HE teachers whose goal is to develop their pedagogical knowledge and skills in the changing world of the 21st century.

Complete information about the conference is available here: International Conference May 15-17, 2024