THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE

Shifting learning practices by innovative technologies

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated radical changes in educational methods. Dramatically increased use of technology has led to deep and far-reaching insights into what human development and learning looks like. Insights which could pave the way to shifting educational methods from traditional content dissemination to augmented relationships with teachers, together with increased personalisation and independence.

Availability of new technologies should enable the educational sector to innovate its systems and expand access, so that all can benefit from better quality education. Alongside this, an even more important opportunity is on the table. The possibility of teachers using innovative technologies to facilitate and encourage learning beyond the straightforward acquisition of knowledge, to nurturing a culture that values learning in itself.

The technology which is already a big part of today’s classrooms has inspired teachers and education developers to look for new ways to improve education systems. With this, new technologies such as artificial learning, digital innovations and educational software are not only changing the way students learn, they are also changing the role of teachers and their approach to education.

In contrast to all this progress, moving the world’s students online has exposed deep societal inequities. These include a digital divide whereby those without devices or reliable internet connections are completely cut off from education, together with the shocking number of children who rely on going to school for food and a safe environment.

Conference programme

Education

17 January 2022

10:30
Aligning curricula and teacher education, especially with Artificial Intelligence

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Access to new technologies should provide the education sector with the means to innovate education systems and expand the access to better quality education for all. What matters even more is how innovative technology is used in the classroom by teachers to facilitate and encourage student learning beyond simple knowledge acquisition, and nurture a culture that values learning.

There is a general agreement that rapid technological change could have an important impact on the achievement of the SDGs. The vital role of science, technology and innovation in sustainable development and in facilitating efforts to address global challenges to improve education is widely recognised.

Technology is already a big part of the current classrooms, as teachers and education developers are looking for ways to improve our education systems. New technologies as artificial learning, digital innovations and educational software not only change the field of study for students, they also change the role of teachers and their approach to education.

During the Covid-19 crisis the education-system changed radically. The pandemic is giving technology massive insights at scale as to what human development and learning looks like, allowing it to potentially shift from just content dissemination to augmenting relationships with teachers, personalization, and independence.

On the other hand: moving the world’s students online has exposed deep inequities in the education system, from the shocking number of children who rely on school for food and a safe environment, to a digital divide in which kids without devices or reliable internet connections are cut off from learning completely.

Chaired by

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Keynote speech

Promoting inclusive education in the post-pandemic, technology-driven society

Leymah  Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; African peace activist; Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Founder and President

Laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, based in Monrovia. Leymah is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s nonviolent peace movement. Leymah Gbowee’s personal and professional experiences attest to the significant role education plays in the advancement of girls and women. As of April 2017, Gbowee is also Executive Director of the Women of Peace and Security Program at AC4, Earth Institute, Columbia University. She is best known for leading a nonviolent movement that brought together Christian and Muslim women to play a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s devastating, fourteen-year civil war in 2003.

Keynote speech

The role of technology and Artificial Intelligence in the future of education

Dirk Van Damme

Dirk Van Damme

Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR), Harvard University; Former Head of CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation)

Dirk Van Damme currently is working as a distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR), Harvard University. He is the former Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress Division (IMEP), which covers both the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and the Indicators of Educational Systems (INES) programme, in the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills. He holds a PhD degree in educational sciences from Ghent University and is also professor of educational sciences in the same university (since 1995).

He also was part-time professor in comparative education at the Free University of Brussels (1997-2000) and visiting professor of comparative education at Seton Hall University, NJ, USA (2001-2008). His main fields of study and research have included comparative education, lifelong learning and higher education policy. Alongside his academic career and before joining the OECD in 2008, he has been professionally involved in educational policy development in various governmental positions.

He also served as an expert for several national and international organisations, mainly in the higher education and quality assurance sector. His current interests focus on innovation in education, comparative analyses of educational systems, new developments in the learning sciences and knowledge management in education.

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Alexandre  Lyambabaje

Alexandre Lyambabaje

Vice Chancellor of University of Rwanda; former Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa

Alexandre Lyambabaje is the University of Rwanda Vice Chancellor. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa. He has served in different capacities in the Government of Rwanda. In 1999, he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education. In 2000, he was appointed Minister of Commerce, Tourism, Industry, Investments Promotion and Cooperatives, a position he held until 2003. He also contributed to the regional integration process through active participation in the ministerial meetings of East African Community and COMESA. Prof Lyambabaje holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Mathematics from University de Rennes in France.

Nazar Mohamed Hassan

Nazar Mohamed Hassan

UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States

Senior Science & Technology Regional Advisor

Nazar M. Hassanhas been the Senior Regional Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Specialist for the Arab States at UNESCO since 2009, where he has initiated several networks to build up the region’s techno-preneurship culture. Previously, he worked as Senior Economist in the Sustainable Development Division of UN ESCWA (Lebanon).

Hassan has a number of published papers and reports in the areas of sustainable development goals, science policy development, and strategic energy management, together with a number of patents in renewable energy. He is one of authors and editors of volumes 20 and 21 of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook 2018 and 2019, which is refereed by the University of Bremen. Hassan is also one of the co-authors of the Arab States chapter within the 2016 UNESCO World Science Report.

Hassan is an engineer by profession, and he has received his PhD (systems optimization) in 2003 from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the United States, with a focus on Sustainable Energy Development.

Gong Ke

Gong Ke

World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)

President

Gong Ke, Chairman, the Academic Committee of Nankai University; Executive Director, Chinese Institute for New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Former Rector Nankai University and Tianjin University, China.

Gong Ke is an electronics engineer with the expertise in information, communication technology, and more than 30 years’ experience in engineering education, research and management. Gong Ke has been working in the field of telecommunication and electronic engineering. He has led many projects of Chinese high-tech research and development programs, for terrestrial and satellite wireless communication. He has led the development of the Chinese technical standard of digital TV transmission, the first Chinese micro-satellite, the rural radio communication system, etc, and won numbers of rewards including the National Award for Technical Invention.

He is author/co-author of more than 100 technical papers. From 2013 to 2017, he was appointed by Ban Ki-moon to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Chandrika Bahadur

Chandrika Bahadur

UN SDSN Association

President

Chandrika Bahadur is the President of the SDSN Association. Previously she was Director of Education Initiatives at the UN SDSN. From 2008-2011, she was advisor to the Chairman and Managing Director at Reliance Industries, where she helped set up Reliance Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic foundation focusing on areas of education, health, rural development, and urban renewal.

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Closing remarks

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Michelle Ran Ye

Michelle Ran Ye

KU Leuven

Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

18 January 2022

11:45
Bridging the digital divide for more equitable and inclusive childhood education

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Access to the internet supports learning and provides educational resources, making it an effective, low-cost solution for children’s education. However, not every child is connected to the internet, and this automatically creates a digital divide. And among children who are connected, certain groups are discriminated against and excluded. Both scenarios need to be addressed in order to achieve inclusiveness and equality in digitally-supported education.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a booming technological domain which has already begun producing new teaching and learning solutions. These are now being used to ensure equitable and inclusive access to education and appropriate learning opportunities for marginalised people and communities, people with disabilities, refugees, those out of school and those living in isolated communities. However, for all of these positive aspects, AI presents its own challenges and there is a need to ensure this doesn’t create its own digital divide.

Chaired by

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

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Lynn Ang

Lynn Ang

UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Professor of Early Childhood Education, Pro-Director and Vice-Dean Research

Lynn Ang is Professor of Early Childhood, Pro-Director and Vice-Dean Research at UCL Institute of Education. She is also currently Head of the Department of Learning and Leadership. Her research interests include the interdisciplinary fields of early childhood and international development, and early childhood across cultures particularly in South East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Lynn is interested in the social, cultural and policy influences on children’s development and early learning in a range of formal and informal contexts such as preschool and home-based settings. Prof. Ang is particularly interested in constructions of early childhood care and education from an international perspective, the impact of research, and the ways in which socially relevant research and advocacy for children and families are translated into policy and practice.

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Manos Antoninis

Manos Antoninis

UNESCO

Director of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report

Manos Antoninis is the Director of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report since 2017. He was previously responsible for the monitoring section of the report. He coordinated the financing gap estimates for the 2030 education targets, the projections on the achievement of universal primary and secondary education completion, and the World Inequality Database on Education. He has been representing the report team in the Technical Cooperation Group on SDG 4 indicators, which he is currently co-chairing.

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Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal

Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal

United Arab Emirates University

Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education

Myra Garces-Bacsal is the Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University. She also serves as Associate Professor with the Department of Special Education. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she served as a teacher educator in Singapore where she taught for eleven years.

She was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2019, recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2012 and a Service Commendation Award in 2013. She was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich as an International Fellow in 2016 and 2017. She served as Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) held annually in Singapore from 2011-2019 and currently serves as the International Advisor-at-Large for the AFCC.

She has edited five books on Asian children’s literature featuring the Philippines, Malaysia, China, India, and Japan.

Eduardo Cascallar

Eduardo Cascallar

Co-Director of International Cognitive Research Consortium; Guest Professor of University of Leuven, Belgium; CEO AGI (USA/EU)

Eduardo Cascallar received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently Invited Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, as well as Managing Director for Assessment Group International (Belgium/USA). He is also an international consultant for the World Bank, OECD and UNESCO. He was Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, working in international assessment projects, assessment of higher education examinations, and in automated predictive methodologies in national security applications.

In 1991 Cascallar received a recognition from the American Psychological Society for his contributions to scientific psychology, and in 1994 he received the Hammer Award from the Office of the Presidency of the USA for his contributions to the USA government. He also held research and/or faculty positions at UCLA, ETS Georgetown University and with the US Federal government intelligence community.

Cascallar was Director of Assessment at CUNY, and Dean of Assessment at Excelsior College. His research includes work on the assessment of cognitive abilities, the role of working memory and executive attention in academic outcomes and in complex problem solving, the role of heritability in cognitive processing levels, educational assessments, performance assessment, large-scale testing, IRT applications, and computer- based assessment. More recently he has worked in various predictive methodologies in educational, medical, and national security applications.

Cascallar has a long list of publications and presentations at international conferences and is active in various international professional organizations, providing consulting services to academic and corporate institutions, and to international governmental and private organizations in many countries.

Najelaa Shihab

Najelaa Shihab

Indonesia

Founder of Sekolah Cikal, Sekolah.mu and Karier.mu

Najelaa Shihab is an educator who initiated many organizations in the education field. Some of them are directly dealing with children. She has found schools from preprimary up til senior secondary, like Sekolah Cikal, and a Blended Learning School called Sekolah Murid Merdeka. She is also the Head and Founder of Sekolah.mu, a blended learning platform that provides a range of elective classes to complement school programs and Karier.mu is an education platform for jobseekers and talent development.

She works extensively with different stakeholders in the education ecosystem in many initiatives. Supporting teachers’ development and collaboration through Yayasan Guru Belajar, research and policy advocation with the government, in Pusat Studi Pendidikan dan Kebijakan. She also initiated an organization that focuses on family education – Keluarga Kita, working with thousands of volunteers in more than 150 cities named Relawan Keluarga Kita, and founded Semua Murid Semua Guru Network which is a hub of collaboration for more than 800 NGOs and education communities working on the field for education reform in Indonesia.

Kehkashan  Basu

Kehkashan Basu

Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation, UN Human Rights Champion

Kehkashan Basu is a Winner of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize for her work on children’s rights and the environment, and the first-ever Voices Youth Gorbachev-Shultz Legacy Award for her work on nuclear disarmament.

Kehkashan is the Founder President of the social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, which provides over 225,000 young people in 25 countries a networking platform to engage in the sustainable development process and take actions to mitigate climate change. Her internationally acclaimed work on sustainability has resulted in her being named one of the Top 100 SDG Leaders in the world and one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.

She is the youngest member of Canada’s Women in Renewable Energy forum and the youngest Councillor of World Future Council. She has just been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, making her, at 20 years old, its youngest trustee in its 127-year history.

Syed  Munir Khasru

Syed Munir Khasru

The Institute for Policy and Governance (IPAG)

Chairman

Q&A

Closing remarks

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Michelle Ran Ye

Michelle Ran Ye

KU Leuven

Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

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Educating tertiary students to become sustainable innovators

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Educating tertiary students to become sustainable innovators

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Because technology is developing so fast, the skillsets tertiary students need to acquire to prepare them for the real world is also changing really fast. So fast, that it isn’t even possible to predict what will need to be taught in just a few years’ time. When planning tomorrow’s education, more focus therefore needs to be on how the curriculum itself needs to change, rather than on updating the contents within existing courses.

One thing which is currently known, however, is the need to provide education in the context of sustainable development. Tomorrow’s innovators will need to have the ability to transform the world to sustainability, using the emerging technologies of the 4th industrial revolution. To achieve this, the educational curriculum and methods of engineering education should be aligned with SDGs and the 4th industrial revolution.

Tertiary education of the future might thereby be designed around (1) embedding knowledge and skills related to sustainable development into the design of the curriculum itself (2) strengthening all adult learners’ skills for using Information Communication Data Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ICDT&AI) (3) extending inter-disciplinary and international cooperation capability (4) enhancing engineering ethics education for responsible engineering practices.

To guide the evolution of the world’s education and ensure its quality, it will be necessary to establish a global benchmark standard of graduate attributes.

Chaired by

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Keynote speech

Alexandre  Lyambabaje

Alexandre Lyambabaje

Vice Chancellor of University of Rwanda; former Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa

Alexandre Lyambabaje is the University of Rwanda Vice Chancellor. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa. He has served in different capacities in the Government of Rwanda. In 1999, he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education. In 2000, he was appointed Minister of Commerce, Tourism, Industry, Investments Promotion and Cooperatives, a position he held until 2003. He also contributed to the regional integration process through active participation in the ministerial meetings of East African Community and COMESA. Prof Lyambabaje holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and a Doctorate in Mathematics from University de Rennes in France.

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Angelo Paletta

Angelo Paletta

University of Bologna

Head of Department of Management

Angelo Paletta is Delegate of the Rector of the University of Bologna for “Budget, strategic planning and process innovation”; President of the University Scientific Technical Committee for Social and Sustainability Report; Co-director of the Master in “Public Management and Innovation” at Bologna Business School (BBS); He has been a member of numerous scientific committees including MIUR, INVALSI, INDIRE, IPRASE.

He has written numerous books and articles on: Corporate Internal Controls, Cost Management; Corporate Performance Measurement, Corporate Crisis Management, Public Management, Educational Leadership, Governance and Accountability of Universities; Circular economy and business models. He is currently coordinator of the European project Horizon 2020 “Developing and Implementing Sustainability- Based Solutions for Bio-Based Plastic Production and Use to Preserve Land and Sea Environmental Quality in Europe.

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Muhannad Anwar  Al-Shboul

Muhannad Anwar Al-Shboul

University of Jordan

Vice Dean for Quality Affairs and Development at the School of Educational Sciences

Al-Shboul currently is a Vice Dean for Quality Affairs and Development at the School of Educational Sciences in The University of Jordan. He is a Professor of Educational Technology (e-Learning) at The University of Jordan in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction/Educational Technology Program.

He earned his bachelor degree in the area of Business Administration, major in Accounting, from Yarmouk University in Jordan (January, 1996). He earned his M.S. in the area of Computer Science, major in Web Design, from Northeastern Illinois University in the United States (May, 2002). Al-Shboul finished his Ph.D. in the area of Educational Technology, major in Web-Based Learning (e-Learning), from Northern Illinois University in the USA (May, 2007).

Nibal  Idlebi

Nibal Idlebi

Chief of Innovation at UN-ESCWA, Senior expert in Technology for Development, Digital Government and Knowledge Society

Nibal Idlebi is the Chief of Innovation Section at UN-ESCWA. She is a senior policy expert in digital transformation, innovation and technology for sustainable development and digital and open innovative government. She has long experience on policies and strategies advancing knowledge society, digital government transformation, innovation policies and innovation and technology for promoting entrepreneurship in the Arab countries.

She also supervised several regional initiatives on Digital Arabic Content, building trust in cyber space; regional profile of information society and she is currently leading the ESCWA initiative on fostering open government in the Arab region and the ESCWA Award for Digital Arabic Content.

Idlebi is active member in several international and regional working groups and is a jury member of regional and international awards on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital content, and she was a jury member in many e-Government Awards in the Arab Region.

Before joining ESCWA, Idlebi was deputy Minister in the Ministry of Communication and Technology and professor of IT in the Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Syria. Idlebi has a computer engineering degree and a Ph.D in Computer Science from France.

Isabel  Rimanoczy

Isabel Rimanoczy

Convener PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset

Isabel Rimanoczy Ed.D is the Convener of the PRME Working Group of the Sustainability Mindset, an international network of scholars promoting a mindset for shaping a better planet. She has authored fifteen books, most recently a guide for educators: The Sustainability Mindset Principles. Her latest project is the Sustainability Mindset Indicator, a personal development tool for individuals and a teaching support for instructors, due to be launched in autumn 2021.

Raja Maznah

Raja Maznah

Sultan Qaboos University

Professor at Institute of Education

Raja Maznah Raja Hussain obtained her PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University in 1988. She is currently working as Professor at Sultan Qaboos University since 2017. She is an Instructional Designer and Coach with a passion to make things easy for people to learn. She has vast experience in designing and developing training programmes for schools, higher education institutions and others.

Recently she has been an advocate of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) encouraging teachers (especially in higher education) to examine their practice and to share the teaching that makes learning happens with others. She is interested in helping individuals and institutions develop learning environments that help learners learn. Her main research interests are in Instructional design; Technology Enhanced Learning Environment; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Shannon Kobran

Shannon Kobran

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Lead, SDG Academy Kuala Lumpur

Shannon Kobran leads the SDG Academy’s Kuala Lumpur team as part of the new SDSN-Asia office of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, having spent three years as an Education Manager in the New York office. Prior to joining SDSN, she coordinated outreach and development for a small nonprofit that promotes global citizenship through cultural exchange between international students and local communities in New York City.

Her first career, before transitioning to international education, was as an editor and project manager for a leading educational publisher. Shannon holds an MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University, where her research thesis focused on the intersection of technology and intercultural education; and a BA from Dickinson College, USA, where she studied English literature.

Alexander D’Hooghe

Alexander D’Hooghe

Chief Strategic Officer and Founding Partner, Organization for Permanent Modernity and Associate Professor, MIT

Alexander D’Hooghe is Associate Professor at MIT and Chief Strategic Officer and Founding Partner of the design agency and think tank, ORG Permanent Modernity based in Brussels and New York, which is active internationally in systems, urbanism and architecture. He has published internationally, notably with ‘the Liberal Monument’ (Princeton, Fall 2010) and with recent papers in relevant journals in Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA, etc. His urban designs and analyses have included sites in New York City, Shenzhen, Belgium, The Netherlands, Iceland, South-Korea, Malawi, Ghana, parts of Russia, etc.

His expertise is regularly engaged in large multi-functional infrastructure projects and masterplans such as the current resiliency plan developments with coastal design and multifunctional offshore infrastructures in the North Sea as well as new architectural typologies in the canal district of Brussels that mixes education and the arts, with manufacturing, commercial, residential and public spaces. He serves as the director of the advisory committee in Amsterdam to develop meaningful infrastructure to connect the banks of the IJ river. Additionally, he is commissioned to support long-term development plans for Malawi’s urban and rural agricultural and industrial development, focusing on land use efficiency, infrastructural connectivity, environmental sensitivity and diverse economic productivity.

Alexander was formerly the director of MIT Centre For Advanced Urbanism (CAU), which focuses on the large-scale, complex urban issues of our time. D’Hooghe obtained a PhD from the Berlage Institute in 2007with T.U. Delft, published as the book ‘The Liberal Monument’ (Princeton Press, 2010). He previously obtained a Master’s degree in Urban Design from Harvard in 2001, and a Master’s degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Leuven in 1996. He worked with among others Rem Koolhaas and Marcel Smets.

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Closing remarks

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Michelle Ran Ye

Michelle Ran Ye

KU Leuven

Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

19 January 2022

14:00
Why enterprises need to facilitate lifelong learning

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Why enterprises need to facilitate lifelong learning

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The combination of rapid technological change, climate change, circular economy and new forms of work are disrupting every aspect of work and life. At the same time, they are creating new opportunities for innovation and employment creation across all sectors. The relentless pace of all this change means lifelong learning and the capacity to innovate are increasingly important. Not just for enabling adaption to it, but also for driving future direction in economic and social development.

In order to maintain, and even increase, a company’s human capital and remain competitive, enterprises need to facilitate lifelong learning. And with the unique set of resources they have, employees have a crucial role to play. Occupational and technical skills are, by themselves, no longer enough. To be of value in the increasingly dynamic workplace, todays and tomorrow’s workforce needs transversal and foundation skills including skills in learning, adaptability and entrepreneurship.

The question is what can enterprises do to foster lifelong learning? And what role can science, technology and innovation play?

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Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

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Françoise Chombar

Françoise Chombar

Melexis, Belgium

Co-founder and Chairwoman

Françoise Chombar is Chairwoman and co-founder of Melexis. She has been the CEO of Melexis for 18 years. Melexis designs and develops innovative microelectronic solutions for the automotive industry, and is also growing in the smart appliance, home automation, industrial and medical equipment sectors.

Françoise Chombar is member of the board of directors of Umicore, a global materials technology and recycling group and member of the board of directors of Soitec, an international semiconductor materials manufacturer. She is also president of the board of BioRICS and member of the advisory board to Byteflies, both Belgian health tech companies.

Françoise Chombar is chairwoman of the STEM platform, an advisory board of the Flemish Government that encourages young people to follow a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) education.

Françoise Chombar was mentor for 17 years of the SOFIA network, a coaching, networking and training program for female entrepreneurs and women in management. As a ‘STEMinist’, she advocates more STEM and more inclusiveness and gender balance. That commitment is driven by her deep belief in its positive social impact.

In 2012, Françoise Chombar received the title of Honorary Ambassador for Applied Linguistics from UGent. She won the Vlerick Award in 2016 and the Global Prize for Women Entrepreneurs in 2018. That year she was also elected ICT Personality of the Year by Datanews and appointed Science Fellow at the VUB. In 2019, she received the Honorary Sign of the Flemish Community.  In 2021, she received the Computable Lifetime Achievement award and the first Medal of Honor, awarded by the Science and Technology Group of KU Leuven.

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Khalid Al-Begain

Khalid Al-Begain

President of Kuwait College of Science and Technology; Former President of ECMS and Eurosim

Khalid Al-Begain is the first and founding President of KCST since 2015. Prior to KCST, he was a professor at the University of South Wales, UK and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies, UK. He occupied several leading positions in international organisations such as the President of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) and Past President of the Federation of European Simulation Societies (EuroSim).

He received his MSc and PhD in Communications Engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary. He received Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Glamorgan, UK in 2011 and the prestigious “Senior Strategic Leadership” certificate from The Leadership Foundation in Higher Education in the UK.

He has a distinguished academic record with 2 registered patents, 2 authored books, 22 edited books and over 200 refereed publications. He established and chaired 25 international conferences and supervised 28 successful PhDs. He secured over £20million research funding.

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Nazar Mohamed Hassan

Nazar Mohamed Hassan

UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States

Senior Science & Technology Regional Advisor

Nazar M. Hassanhas been the Senior Regional Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Specialist for the Arab States at UNESCO since 2009, where he has initiated several networks to build up the region’s techno-preneurship culture. Previously, he worked as Senior Economist in the Sustainable Development Division of UN ESCWA (Lebanon).

Hassan has a number of published papers and reports in the areas of sustainable development goals, science policy development, and strategic energy management, together with a number of patents in renewable energy. He is one of authors and editors of volumes 20 and 21 of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook 2018 and 2019, which is refereed by the University of Bremen. Hassan is also one of the co-authors of the Arab States chapter within the 2016 UNESCO World Science Report.

Hassan is an engineer by profession, and he has received his PhD (systems optimization) in 2003 from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the United States, with a focus on Sustainable Energy Development.

Jessica Li

Jessica Li

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Associate Dean for Research, College of Education

Jessica Li is a seasoned human resource development professional with more than 25 years of working experience in both business corporations and academic institutions. Her professional skills include creating coaching and mentoring programs, overseeing talent management and retention strategies, establishing corporate universities, and developing leaders. She is an accomplished practitioner and researcher with strong people and leadership skills.

Jessica is currently an associate professor of Human Resource Development and the Director of the Human Resource Development Program. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal Human Resource Development International, regional editor for the Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management, and the theme lead for education and workforce development, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System.

She was a past member of the Advisory Board of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, the Chair of the Education and Workforce Development Working Group, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System, a member of the board of directors at the Academy of Human Resource Development from 2014 to 2018, and the dean’s fellow for faculty development and diversity initiatives from 2014- 2016.

Before joining the faculty at Illinois, she taught at the University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the North China University of Technology. Prior to becoming a professor, Jessica worked as a business executive for Motorola, Raytheon, and Nokia. Her Ph.D. is from Pennsylvania State University.

Lars  Moratis

Lars Moratis

Chair in Management Education for Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Business (AMS / BUas); Founder of Impact Academy

Lars Moratis leads the Chair in Responsible Management Education at Antwerp Management School and Breda University. His research and teaching activities focus on CSR strategy and implementation. His current main interests are the credibility of corporate CSR claims, CSR standards (including ISO 26000), the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives, critical views on CSR, and education in responsible management.

Jan  Beyne

Jan Beyne

Antwerp Management School

Researcher at the Sustainable Transformation Lab

Jan Beyne combines his academic knowledge in the field of sustainable development with a wide range of practical experience. As a researcher and teacher at Antwerp Management School and PhD candidate, he specialises in integrating SDGs in all kinds of organisations, companies and local authorities.

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Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Michelle Ran Ye

Michelle Ran Ye

KU Leuven

Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

25 October 2021

14:00
Creating sustainable mindsets through management education

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Creating sustainable mindsets through management education

25/10/2021, 14:00 - 15:30 GST (Dubai)

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Creating sustainable mindsets is critical for societal prosperity, preservation of nature, future business success and the credibility of the concept of sustainability itself. If there is one place where creating sustainable mindsets and developing sustainability intelligence is crucial, it’s in management education. In the business schools where young, ambitious people from a variety of backgrounds find the context within which they develop their belief systems, their moral values and their attitudes.

Individuals develop sustainability intelligence by focusing on three enablers:
• self-awareness, leading to stronger cooperation with others
• global perspective, leading to a developed global mindset, allowing individuals to find better solutions to problems and complex issues
• societal consciousness, leading to sustainability in essential economic processes.

This session examines the term “sustainability intelligence” by describing a Global Leadership Skills (GLS) programme that was developed and implemented for Master’s students at Antwerp Management School in Belgium. In the second part of the session, you will discover how students felt after completing this programme and the impact it’s has on them.

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Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Presentation

Creating sustainable mindsets

Jan  Beyne

Jan Beyne

Antwerp Management School

Researcher at the Sustainable Transformation Lab

Jan Beyne combines his academic knowledge in the field of sustainable development with a wide range of practical experience. As a researcher and teacher at Antwerp Management School and PhD candidate, he specialises in integrating SDGs in all kinds of organisations, companies and local authorities.

Lars  Moratis

Lars Moratis

Chair in Management Education for Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Business (AMS / BUas); Founder of Impact Academy

Lars Moratis leads the Chair in Responsible Management Education at Antwerp Management School and Breda University. His research and teaching activities focus on CSR strategy and implementation. His current main interests are the credibility of corporate CSR claims, CSR standards (including ISO 26000), the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives, critical views on CSR, and education in responsible management.

Presentation

Fariz  Ghaith

Fariz Ghaith

UNESCO

Director Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States

Panel discussion

Interactive discussion

Isabel  Rimanoczy

Isabel Rimanoczy

Convener PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset

Isabel Rimanoczy Ed.D is the Convener of the PRME Working Group of the Sustainability Mindset, an international network of scholars promoting a mindset for shaping a better planet. She has authored fifteen books, most recently a guide for educators: The Sustainability Mindset Principles. Her latest project is the Sustainability Mindset Indicator, a personal development tool for individuals and a teaching support for instructors, due to be launched in autumn 2021.

Isabelle  Byusa

Isabelle Byusa

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Master's Candidate in International Education Policy

Isabelle Byusa was IDEA4Africa’s first Country Director in Rwanda. Originally from Kigali, she is a 2013 graduate from Babson College in the US with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Prior to working with IDEA4Africa, she played a lead role in developing youth entrepreneurial leadership programmes for Babson College.

Kim  Ceulemans

Kim Ceulemans

Toulouse Business School

Assistant Professor of the Department of Management Control, Accounting and Auditing

Kim Ceulemans is an Assistant Professor of Management Control and Sustainability at TBS Business School in Toulouse, France. She earned her PhD in Business Economics at KU Leuven University, Belgium, and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada. Her primary research interests include sustainability management, assessment and reporting, with a particular focus on the role of higher education institutions in embedding sustainability.

Before obtaining her PhD, Ceulemans worked as a sustainability coordinator at a Belgian university, where she led projects such as developing the organisation’s sustainability reporting process. Ceulemans is currently part of the PRME Chapter France-Benelux Steering Group and a member of the External Advisory Board of the Copernicus Alliance.

Thomas Dyllick

Thomas Dyllick

The Institute for Business Sustainability

Director

Thomas Dyllick has been running the Institute for Business Sustainability located in Lucerne, Switzerland, since October 2019. He has been at the University of St. Gallen since 1974. First as a student, graduating with a PhD in 1982, then as a Professor in Sustainability Management and Managing Director of the Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ-HSG), which he co-founded in 1992. From 2001-2003 he was Dean of the Management Department and from 2003-2011 University Vice-President in charge of teaching and quality development.

Closing

Jan  De Groof

Jan De Groof

European Association for Educational Law and Policy

President

Inge Willems

Inge Willems

SDSN Belgium

Network Manager

Inge Willems works as a policy advisor at the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development (IMDO) of the University of Antwerp. She is National Coordinator of the Belgian chapter of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

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