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As part of the transversal course “Global Citizenship Skills” taught by prof. Massimiliano Tarozzi, ten students enrolled at the University of Bologna had the opportunity to participate in a study visit to Tunisia, organised by the NGO WeWorld Onlus and funded by the Italian Buddhist Institute Soka Gakkai, from 20 to 26 May 2024. The…

The conference, which celebrates the recognition of the Portici di Bologna as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, aims to launch a discussion on the need to protect the historic urban landscape and to question the role of UNESCO sites. The aim of the two-day event is to identify common strategies to protect the urban heritage from the effects of challenges such as climate change or catastrophic events such as wars, but also ways to protect and enhance it in everyday life, promoting a sense of community and active participation of citizens in the care of their heritage.

On 8 May 2024, from 13.00 to 14.30, the third seminar in the series of Lunchtime Seminars organised by the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education, entitled “Promoting global citizenship in China: University English teachers’ dilemma and voices”, will be held in Bologna at the Celio Lecture Hall, via Zamboni 38. The author, Enze Guo from University College London, will present some reflections resulting from his research on the promotion of global citizenship in Chinese universities.

First event “The experiences of a correspondent in war zones. Meeting with journalist Azzurra Meringolo”
Organised by Prof. Alessandro Tolomelli, the seminar will take place on Monday 19 February from 13.00 at the Aule Belmeloro, via B. Andreatta 8, Bologna.

Marcella Milana, member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Chair, will speak at a policy roundtable on ECGs at the European Parliament on 16 November. The event will be broadcast live from 9-11am. Registration is required to attend.

On 17 and 18 November 2023, the first transnational conference ‘Creating Glocal Perspectives – Global Citizenship Education for a Transformed Future’, organised by the University of Klagenfurt, will take place online. Professor Tarozzi will participate as a speaker in the panel discussion ‘Different Perspectives of Global Citizenship Education’.

Applications are now open for the Intensive Course on Global Citizenship Education to be held in Tunis from 13 to 18 November. The course is organised by the Italian Foundation for Higher Education in Africa (IHEA) in collaboration with the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb in Tunis and the UNESCO Chair in ECG.

Registration closes on 30 October.

On Wednesday 08/11/2023 at 16.45 in the Sala Stabat Mater of the Archiginnasio Library there will be a seminar promoted by the Departments EDU and FILCOM of the University of Bologna on the topic of complexity applied to educational contexts and the visions of the future that the new generations can aspire to. The event is free of charge.

On Friday 29 September, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Room 2, Via Azzo Gardino 33, Bologna, Riikka Suhonen, visiting professor at the University of Helsinki, will give a seminar on the challenges that different forms of knowledge, information and disinformation from social media pose for critical global citizenship education. Free admission.

On Thursday, September 21, in Bologna, the UNESCO Chair invites you to the First Interregional Forum on Global Citizenship Education organized as part of the R-Educ- – “Regions for Global Citizenship Education: Models of Governance and Good Practices” project.

R-Educ project website is online. The initiative funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Region, aims to develop and sustain the concept of “citizenship” and promote change and awareness for a more sustainable and just world.

The call for applications is open for the two-year first level Master’s Degree proposed by the Department of Educational Sciences “Giovanni Maria Bertin” with the aim of training professionals working within the reception system for migrants on Italian territory.

On Monday 15 May at 5pm, a conference will be held at the Gambalunga Library, Via A. Gambalunga 27, Rimini, to launch the Global Education and Learning (GEL), a database collecting more than 3400 publications in 10 different languages in the field of Global Citizenship Education.

On Thursday 20 April, from 15.00 to 17.00, in the Aula Bodoniana 5, Via San Donato 19/2, there will be a seminar on sport and cultural studies with guest speaker Nicola De Martini Ugolotti from Bournemouth University.

On Wednesday 18 January 14:00-17:00, ReCUI – Network of Italian UNESCO Chairs organizes a meeting at the Aquarium Hall, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University, Rome

From Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 in Tunis, UNESCO organized a meeting to reflect and define topics to be included in a university course aimed at pre-service teachers

On 14 December 2022, Massimiliano Tarozzi intervened at the seminar held at the Politecnico di Milano – Polo di Mantova on the conceptualization of GCE, outlining objectives and implementation methods

On Friday 2 December, the city of Bologna hosts Danilo Dolci sociologist, poet, educator, at Palazzo d’Accursio, Sala Tassinari. The event will start at 3 p.m. and is open to all.