The Co-creation Training Workshop which will be held on February 3rd to 5th, 2022 at the Athena Institute, Vrije University Amsterdam (VUA), the Netherlands, will provide a platform for Co-creation experts, practitioners, interested researchers and educators, Ph.D. students, and community partners to discuss and share knowledge and experiences on co-creation practices aimed towards connecting science and society. The main aims of the event are as follows:
Facilitate sharing of ideas and experiences on co-creation (best practices, pitfalls, innovations)
Connect co-creation experts, practitioners, students, and community partners from around the world
Build an engaged community of co-creation practitioners
Foster co-creation practices in research and education within and beyond the AURORA alliance
We may not have had the opportunity to visit all ten of the other universities, nor indeed those countries, but in the five years since Aurora began, how well do we really know our Aurora partners?
We’re all research-intensive with an international outlook, collectively supporting our students to become global entrepreneurs. But could you list the home country of each partner? Its academic strengths? Its research collaborations?
The Borderless Learning: Recognition and Mobility Group (WP3.3.1) is hosting a week-long series of webinars from November 2nd to 5th, aiming to answer questions from the very basic level – why would a student choose to study there – from its campus and location, to its courses, to its inclusive community. Each Aurora university will take just 60 minutes, all following a similar structure and format, to showcase itself to other Aurora universities.
Whether you’re a student, an administrative adviser or coordinator of placements, or an academic looking to strengthen your European partnerships; tune in (or watch the recordings) to find out more. You could just turn out to be learning about your next destination.
Get To Know Your Aurora University Study Abroad Partner Destinations – A Webinar Series for students and staff
Are you on a study abroad pathway? Interested in studying a short course abroad? Keen to experience living and learning in another part of Europe? Or helping to advise those that are? Join as many of these eleven webinars as you like! All will be live streamed and recorded for follow-up access.
This (Service) Design Thinking for educators course provides a way for educators to gain new perspectives on teaching, research, and problem-solving. It is a hands-on learning opportunity, not by talking about new teaching formats but by actually creating one.
During highly interactive sessions, you will work in teams and develop an exemplary course that intends to play with and maybe even breaks the traditional classroom boundaries.
To register within the University of Innsbruck, please use the VIS:online Tool of Universität Innsbruck and to register externally please send an email to personalentwicklung@uibk.ac.at.
In these times of climate change, pandemic, forced migration and increasing economic and political alienation, crisis talk is ubiquitous. While the world’s problems are unquestionably urgent, the current discourse of emergency risks aggravating them by privileging quick but ineffective reaction over the calm, reflexive analysis that is a necessary first step in combatting the woes besetting us.
The objective of this lecture series is to provide an antidote to impulsive disaster talk through perceptive academic analysis. Outstanding researchers within the Aurora University Alliance will give engaging online lectures during the 2021–2022 academic year on cutting edge research within two broad domains, Sustainability & Climate Change and Culture: Diversity & Identity
Each lecture will be followed by a virtual social hour for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers which will allow them to network with peers across the Aurora Alliance and start building the research teams that will deal with the challenges of the future.
13 October 2021, 17:00–18:30 CET
Circular innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Ir. Bart Bossink (Sustainability and Innovation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
27 October 2021, 17:00–18:30 CET
Ignorance, ritual, abuse, and competition: The politics of Holocaust memory in the 21st century
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Dirk Rupnow (History, University of Innsbruck)
NOVEMBER
11 November 2021, 17:00–18:30 CET
Have you ever loved someone without housing? Houselessness and fundamental rights in a welfare state
Dr. Luisa Schneider (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
18 November 2021, 17:00–18:30 CET
Insect declines in the Anthropocene: Framing is everything
Prof. Dr. Jeff Harvey (Animal Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
– WINTER BREAK –
FEBRUARY
16 February 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
Historical and literary perspectives on pandemics: The need for a gendered response
Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer (Postcolonial Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen)
17 February 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
Places to intervene in a system in crisis: Paradigm shift through Wellbeing Economy and Ecocide Law
Prof. Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir (Sustainability, University of Iceland)
MARCH
23 March 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
Measuring sustainability
Doc. Mgr. Miroslav Syrovátka (Development & Environmental Studies, Palacký University Olomouc)
24 March 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
Is there something new in ‘neo-nationalism’? Right-wing populism in historical perspective
Prof. Guðmundur Hálfdánarson (History, University of Iceland)
APRIL
7 April 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
The importance of early climate mitigation for future glacier change
Dr. Fabien Maussion (Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck)
19 April 2022, 17:00–18:30 CET
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Prof. Nadia Kiwan (French and Francophone Studies, University of Aberdeen)
The lectures will take place on Zoom and the networking sessions on the interactive Wonder platform.You can register for individual dates or the
entire series. You will receive a certificate for your participation.
The Department of Economic and Managerial Studies, Palacký University Olomouc would like to invite you to the 17th anniversary of the conference KNOWCON 2021:Knowledge on Economics and Management that will be held online on November 11-12, 2021. The conference is open to all students from within the Aurora universities free of charge.
International scientific conference KNOWCON: Knowledge on Economics and Management has been held since 2005 (before 2019 as Knowledge for Market Use) and its goal is to gather and present current knowledge on management, marketing, financial management, and other fields of knowledge economy. The conference proceedings of 2012-2017 have been indexed by WoS, the proceedings of 2018-2020 are being evaluated.
One of the panels of KNOWCON 2021 will be focused on social entrepreneurship with Kai Hockerts, social entrepreneurship specialist from Copenhagen Business School, as a keynote speaker with a special lecture. For more information please see https://kems.upol.cz/knowcon/
To register your interest in joining this free conference, please email Pavla Slavíčková at pavla.slavickova@upol.cz stating your name and University before November 1st 2021. You will receive a link to the conference thereafter.
On the 5th and 6th of October, the 1st Capacity Development Support (CDS) Training event organised by the South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’, Bulgaria, in collaboration with the Aurora CDS Task Team at Palacky University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The two-day training event will take place in hybrid format.
The event is open to academic and non-academic staff of the Associate university partners and members of the broader CDS Network involved in teaching, students’ mobility, internationalization of study programmes and university social engagement.
The 26th of September is the European Day of Languages proclaimed by the Council of Europe, under the patronage of the European Union. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of language learning to improve multilingualism and intercultural understanding. It also aims at promoting Europe’s linguistic diversity and encourage lifelong language learning.
European Day of Languages promotes awareness among the general public of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage. On this occasion, on the 27th of September (h. 4-6 p.m.) the Aurora Alliance will hold a round table on the concept of plurilingualism and its role within the Alliance.
As a European Alliance, we are committed to supporting the European Day of Language
To raise awareness about plurilingualism and cultural diversity
To reflect on and to promote plurilingualism
To present teaching and learning activities on plurilingualism delivered/provided within the different Institutions part of the Aurora Alliance
To support language diversity
To discuss possible implementation strategies of the aims mentioned above
To gather and discuss ideas, thoughts and experiences about implementing plurilingualism in teaching and learning activities
The round table will host the interventions: of Giancarmine Bongo (Aurora Plurilingualism Team), Alma Ágústsdóttir (Aurora Student President), and Sophie Belanger (Unite!) will present the choices, perspectives and difficulties of the Unite!
The meeting will be held online, and participants need to register at the following link :
On Friday, September 24, 2021, join us between 3.00 and 16.00 for an online workshop on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC. This workshop is organized in cooperation between the Faculty of Arts of Palacky University Olomouc, and the University of Innsbruck.
Our Aurora partners at the Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Innsbruck, together with Universität Duisburg-Essen invite you to participate in an innovative transatlantic teaching project.
The Aurora Lecture Series ‘Environment and Care: Canadian Perspectives’ is looking for a diverse range of lectures on the Canadian perspective on Environment and Care from various disciplines, combining the Aurora Pilot Domains of Culture: Diversity & Identity and Sustainability & Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.
If you are interested, send in your proposals for research-led teaching units (à 90 minutes) now! including an abstract of 250 words at most which make reference to the following:
Doris G. Eibl & Ursula Moser (University of Innsbruck)
Barbara Buchenau & Florian Freitag (University Duisburg-Essen)
tbc
Learning outcomes of the course:
Students can demonstrate a deeper insight into an environment and care sensitive understanding of Canada. They have become acquainted with exemplary research areas and are able to classify these in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals. Besides, this course aims at developing all forms of critical thinking, in particular with regard to the following competencies: System Thinking Competency, Anticipatory Competency, Collaboration Competency and Integrated Problem Solving Competency.
Course content:
The course, which is intended as an introduction to Canadian Studies, aims to present and discuss a number of recent developments in Canada through the lens of Environment and Care, which we see as key concepts for a future-oriented and sustainable understanding of different facets of the country. While the term “environment” refers not only to air, water, and land in or on which people or animals and plants exist, but also to circumstances, objects or conditions by which people or animals and plants are surrounded, the term “care” implies “everything we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining way.” (Tronto/Fisher 1990, 40)
Along the focal points
· Histories and Politics
· Indigenous Contexts
· Intersectional Issues
· Literatures and Media
· Mountain and Glacier Studies
· Multiculturalism and Federalism
· Urban Visions and Realities
Mode of delivery
Online
Suitability for short term mobility
no (lecture series)
Planned topics
The course is planned as a lecture series from week 17 to 25 (an overview concerning the academic calendars can be found under Question 17 in the FAQ of Aurora Office Innsbruck):
Assessment
Knowledge query based on questions concerning the single sessions
Passed (>60%) / failed (tbd)
Language of instruction
English
Registration procedure for non institutional Aurora-students and
Criteria for the allocation of places (e.g. “first come first served”)
Not applicable
(no limitation of participants)
Recognition
Students are asked to clarify the creditability of this course for their studies before registering! At Universität Innsbruck, the course is to be offered as a curricular course within the framework of Interdisciplinary Competences (elective module).
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