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 |
I. Session 2 · Track A: Civic Agency and Democratic Competences: Empirical Approaches |
I. Session 3 · Track B: Institutionalising Service-Learning: Strategies and Structural Pathways |
I. Session 4 · Track C: Curriculum Models for Democratic Competence Development |
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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 |
Workshop 2 / Track A: Network Mapping and Democratic Design in Service-Learning |
Workshop 3 / Track B: Campus–Community Partnerships: From Strategy to Scale |
Workshop 4 / Track B: Mutual Learning and Institutionalisation Across Universities |
Workshop 5 / Track C: Embodied and Transformative Learning for the Future University |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
reception: reception |
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