We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference! More details about the programme, form of interaction, participation, and contributors will be announced shortly. Please, stay tuned!
Specific objectives:
- To identify challenges and enablers of access and participation in Higher Education more broadly, specifically in connection to the Sustainable Development Goal 4.
- To share experiences & provide space for networking - discuss and map areas of further improvement of the inclusive university of the future, including the involvement of all stakeholders and students’ voices.
- To exchange knowledge and share policies and practices.
- To realise Inclusion in Action: Identifying areas of action & recommendations for relevant stakeholders (EU/higher education/civil society/youth).
Outcomes:
- The state of the art will have been mapped. Stakeholders will have shared their vision and mission for the inclusion agenda. They will have outlined barriers and enablers to accessing and participation for all, especially underrepresented groups or those at risk of exclusion.
- The conference will have provided space and time for learning about various stakeholders and participants and their experiences, journey in terms of access and participation, experiencing exclusion, discrimination, and stereotypes, prejudices.
- Participants will have shared specific policies and practices (good practices and "lessons learned" experiences/practices) to support each other and minimise the need to start from scratch to design and implement inclusive measures.
- The key learning moments, takeaways, and messages will be presented by stakeholder groups. A call to action, including a list of recommendations, will be drafted by the conference organisers and shared with decision-makers at the EU, national and regional levels.
Target audience (in-person and online participation)
- EU Stakeholders
- Policy groups
- Civil society and youth groups
- European University Alliances
- University management/boards
- University Educators
- Students