WORKSHOP ON SWEDISH-AFRICAN HEI COLLABORATION STOCKHOLM 4 JUNI focus and themes to support Higher Education for Education for All (HEEFA)

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1 WORKSHOP ON SWEDISH-AFRICAN HEI COLLABORATION focus and themes to support Higher Education for Education for All (HEEFA) STOCKHOLM 4 JUNI 2014

2 10:00 10:15 WELCOME Marianne Granfelt Cecilia Christersson 10:15 10:30 IAU o HEEFA 10:30 10:45 VIEWS ON INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT OF HEI 11:00 11:45 TASK 1 WORKSHOP 11:45 12:15 DISCUSSION PLENUM Isabelle Turmaine IAU Director, Information Centre and Communication Services Cecilia Christersson Group discussions 12:15 12:45 LUNCH 12:45 13:30 TASK 2 WORKSHOP 13:30 14:00 DISCUSSION PLENUM 14:00 15:00 REFLECTIONS AND DIRECTIONS Group discussions Plenum discussion

3 OVERALL PURPOSE Improve understanding of how HE is and can be engaged in pursuing goals related to Education for All Promote mutual learning between the Swedish HEI:s themselves and between them and their African partners in collaborative capacity building Organize a conference in Africa 2015 together with African partners

4 SUHF wants to participate in the IAU (International Association of Universities) project Higher Education and Education for All (HEEFA) as a part of UNESCO project Education for All (EFA) A committee was appointed in the beginning of 2014 with representatives from Göteborgs university, Uppsala university, Lund university, Karlstad university, Dalarna University and Malmö university Inventory of ongoing collaboration between Swedish and African HEI Open national workshop in Stockholm 4 juni 2014 Planning of a conference in Africa beginning of 2015

5 The SUHF board appointed a committtee: Helena Lindholm Schultz, prorektor GU Cecilia Christersson, prorektor MAH Marie Klingberg-Allvin, prorektor DU Peter Sundin, programdirektör UU Åsa Bergenheim, rektor KAU Pär Svensson, expert internationalisering LU Marianne Granfelt, förbundsdirektör SUHF Eva Åkesson, rektor UU

6 SUHF in collaboration with IAU PROJECT IDEA Training teacher educators Training professional educators Swedish - African HEI collaboration TEACHER EDUCATION NEW APPROACHES GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION INVENTORY SHARING EXPERIENCES / SYNERGIES NEW WAYS FORWARD

7 UNESCO action and the United Nations MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

8 The Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments Goal 1: Expand early childhood care and education Goal 2: Provide free and compulsory primary education for all Goal 3: Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults Goal 4: Increase adult literacy by 50 percent Goal 5: Achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by 2015 Goal 6: Improve the quality of education

9 GLOBAL ADULT LITERACY

10 Globalization is generating new wealth and resulting in the greater interconnectedness and interdependence of economies and societies. Driven by the revolution in information technologies and the increased mobility of capital, it has the potential to help reduce poverty and inequality throughout the world, and to harness the new technologies for education.

11 THREATS TO HEALTH

12 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL INNOVATION LEARNING SOCIETY SUSTAINABLE LEARNING LEARN HOW TO LEARN

13 SUGGESTED THEMES Learning for a sustainable society Preparing students to become change makers Learning Society Glocal Classroom Child rights, classroom and school management Quality in higher education, a necessary part of a national system for education Gender in education

14 Results from our short survey Generally; a large and broad interest (17/37) Borås, Chalmers, Dalarna, Halmstad, Jönköping, Linköping, Lund, Karlstad, KTH, Malmö, Mälardalen, Skövde, SLU, Södertörn, Umeå, Uppsala, Göteborg Teacher s education and school/education research and activities Other: Sustainable cities Capacity building programmes (Rwanda) Accessability Entrepreneurship Engineering Health/medicine Art/music

15 PARTNERS Large amount of partners East Africa (Kenya/Tanzania) South of Sahara (South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe) Central Africa (Rwanda, Uganda) Nigeria, Ghana Northern Africa (Tunis)

16 TASK 1 Discuss the themes strengths and gaps Is any theme missing? What three themes are of common interest to you and your partners in Africa?

17 TASK 2 Suggest possible African partner universities for the organization of the conference? Suggest possible location for conference?