24.09.
2024
DKC Veritas
Dominikánske nám. 8
Košice, Slovakia
Training will be held in English.
The training is targeted at staff and students of P. J. Safarik University in Kosice
About the event
Join us for the Aurora Alliance Capacity Development Program (CDP) training to learn about ways to support and implement inclusive strategies, policies and practices on Aurora Alliance campuses.
The training will focus on: socio-economic, ethnic, gender and cultural diversity and aims to present examples of good practice at partner universities and motivate students and staff at our university to deepen their knowledge in this area.
With lecturers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Palacky University Olomouc, you will have the opportunity to engage in constructive debates with university management, academics and students on intercultural experiences, best practices and challenges of inclusion.
The training participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance after finishing the training.
08:30-09:00
Registration of Participants and Welcome with Coffee
(Aurora Capacity Development Team)
09:00-09:30
Welcome words and introduction to the event (Silvia Rucinska, UPJS)
- Introduction to Aurora, CDP 2030 and programme concept (Selma Porobic, UP; Oleksandr Khyzhniak, VU)
09:30-10:15
Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion Topic
- Aurora value: positioning the diversity and inclusion (Selma Porobic, UP; Mathilde Chaumont, UPEC)
- UPJS perspective on diversity and inclusion (Silvia Rucinska, UPJS)
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
PANEL SESSION: ‘Diversity and Inclusion at Aurora Universities – Trend or Transformation?’
Moderator: Eliska Zasadova (UPJS)
Speakers:
- Ludmila Elbert – Vice Rector for Education (UPJS)
- Zelmira Macejova, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine, (UPJS);
- Jozef Benka, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts, (UPJS);
- Pavlina Flajsarova, Vice-Dean for Internationalisation, Faculty of Arts (UP), Culture: Identities and Diversities Hub (Aurora)
- Puneet Bindlish, Professor, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices, CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:00-13:00
Lunch and Networking
13:00-15:00
Parallel workshop sessions:
- ‘Student Peer Learning on Diversity and Intercultural Competences’ (Mathilde Chaumont, UPEC; Simona Gibalova, UPJS)
- ‘Educational practices and mixed classroom approach for academic staff’ (Pavlina Flajsarova, UP, Ingrid Madárová, UPJS)
- ‘Diversity office and its benefits’ Q&A with Sharda Nandram, VU
15:00-15:15
Coffee Break
15:15-16:15
Reflections and discussions
Reports from Workshops
16.15-17.00
Concluding remarks and wrap-up
Expert Guarantors
- doc. Ing. Silvia Ručinská, PhD., university professor, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation
- Prof. Puneet Bindlish (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Prof. dr. Sharda Nandram (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Selma Porobić, PhD., Institutional Aurora Coordinator(Palacky University Olomouc)
Organisation Team
- Mgr. Mária Vasiľová, PhD., international relations officer (UPJŠ)
- Bc. Oľga Gállová, international relations officer(UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Filip Šera, PhD., international relations officer (UPJŠ)
- Ing. Michaela Lukačinová, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Vitalii Horovenko, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Dmytro Hrytsu, researcher, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Milana Hrachova, PhD student (UPJŠ)
