Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Conference Opening: Arrival, Registration and Welcome |
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| 1:00pm - 1:15pm |
Welcome: Welcome addresses |
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| 1:15pm - 2:15pm |
1st keynote: Sjur Bergan: LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR DEMOCRACY: THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE REFERENCE FRAMEWORK OF COMPETENCES FOR DEMOCRATIC CULTURE Biography Sjur Bergan is an independent education expert. He was Head of the Council of Europe’s Education Department until February 1, 2022, where, among other things, he led the Council of Europe projects on Competences for Democratic Culture and the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees. Sjur represented the Council of Europe in the Bologna Follow Up Group and Board between 2000 and April 2022 and chaired working groups on structural reforms in 2007 - 15. He was a member of EHEA groups on the fundamental values of higher education 2018 – 24 and a key author of the statements on fundamental values adopted by EHEA Ministers in May 2024. He is currently affiliated with the Fundamental Values WG as an expert in the NewFAV2 project. Sjur was series editor of the Council of Europe Higher Education Series. He is the author of Qualifications: Introduction to a Concept and Not by Bread Alone as well as of European Higher Education, Social Responsibility, and the Local Democratic Mission, published by Temple University Press in March 2025. He holds honorary doctorates from Dublin City University (2022) and the University of Oslo (2024) and is the recipient of the 2019 European Association for International Education Award for Vision and Leadership. |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
I. Session 1 · Track A: Theoretical Frameworks for Democracy Education Re-framing Democratic Culture through a relational logic: Enabling its assessment in Higher Education 3:00pm - 3:30pm Theoretical Foundations for Transformational Literacy in Higher Education. Transdiciplinary Learning and Experimentation for Social Innovation 3:30pm - 4:00pm Service-Learning for Sustainable Development: A Digital Course Design for Participatory and Reflective Teaching and Learning |
I. Session 2 · Track A: Civic Agency and Democratic Competences: Empirical Approaches Promoting Democratic Culture through Service-Learning in Higher Education: Initial Insights from a Scoping Literature Review Does Service Learning Foster Democratic Competences? An Empirical Study on Subjective Theories in Socio-Economic Teacher Education Between Classroom and Community: A Course as a Liminal Space for Transforming Students’ Habitus |
I. Session 3 · Track B: Institutionalising Service-Learning: Strategies and Structural Pathways From Program to Ecosystem: Institutionalizing Civic Engagement as Democratic Infrastructure in Higher Education: Case Study of Tulane University From Pilot to Institution: Embedding Service Learning in a Large Catholic University Institutionalizing Service Learning through a Tutoring Course in a STEM Institution |
I. Session 4 · Track C: Curriculum Models for Democratic Competence Development Reciprocal Service Learning as a Curricular Model for Democratic Competence Development: The Mannheim Approach From Campus Users to Democratic Co-Creators: Reciprocal Service-Learning for Institutional Transformation in Sustainable and Healthy Universities Strengthening Democratic Competencies and Entrepreneurship through Service Learning |
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| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee break: Coffee break |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Workshop 1 / Track A: Service-Learning in the Age of Generative AI Service-Learning in the Era of GenAI: Challenges, Opportunities and Democratic Futures |
Workshop 2 / Track A: Network Mapping and Democratic Design in Service-Learning Who’s in? Shaping Service-Learning for Democracy with Network maps |
Workshop 3 / Track B: Campus–Community Partnerships: From Strategy to Scale From Strategy to Scale: Testing a Campus-Community Partnership Framework |
Workshop 4 / Track B: Mutual Learning and Institutionalisation Across Universities SPACE Upside Down, Shallow-Deep: A Mutual Learning Exercise on Methods and Praxis for Institutionalising Engaged Research-Based Teaching and Learning Across Four Universities |
Workshop 5 / Track C: Embodied and Transformative Learning for the Future University Embodied service-learning: Connecting head, hands and heart through Social Presencing Theater |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
reception: reception |
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