24.09.
2024
DKC Veritas
Dominikánske nám. 8
Košice, Slovakia
Training will be held in English.
The training is targeted at staff and students of P. J. Safarik University in Kosice
About the event
On 24 September 2024, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice hosted the workshop Diversity and Inclusion: Ways Forward in Fostering Inclusive and Enriching Practices and Policies at the Aurora Universities organised in collaboration with the Aurora CDP Team at Palacký University in Olomouc (UP) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). The workshop took place within the Aurora Alliance Capacity Development Program (CDP) and was aimed at advancing the ways to support and implement inclusive strategies, policies and practices.
08:30-09:00
Registration of Participants and Welcome with Coffee
(Aurora Capacity Development Team)
09:00-09:30
Welcome words and introduction to the event (Silvia Rucinska, UPJS)
- Introduction to Aurora, CDP 2030 and programme concept (Selma Porobic, UP; Oleksandr Khyzhniak, VU)
09:30-10:15
Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion Topic
- Aurora value: positioning the diversity and inclusion (Selma Porobic, UP; Mathilde Chaumont, UPEC)
- UPJS perspective on diversity and inclusion (Silvia Rucinska, UPJS)
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
PANEL SESSION: ‘Diversity and Inclusion at Aurora Universities – Trend or Transformation?’
Moderator: Eliska Zasadova (UPJS)
Speakers:
- Ludmila Elbert – Vice Rector for Education (UPJS)
- Zelmira Macejova, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine, (UPJS);
- Jozef Benka, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts, (UPJS);
- Pavlina Flajsarova, Vice-Dean for Internationalisation, Faculty of Arts (UP), Culture: Identities and Diversities Hub (Aurora)
- Puneet Bindlish, Professor, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices, CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:00-13:00
Lunch and Networking
13:00-15:00
Parallel workshop sessions:
- ‘Student Peer Learning on Diversity and Intercultural Competences’ (Mathilde Chaumont, UPEC; Simona Gibalova, UPJS)
- ‘Educational practices and mixed classroom approach for academic staff’ (Pavlina Flajsarova, UP, Ingrid Madárová, UPJS)
- ‘Diversity office and its benefits’ Q&A with Sharda Nandram, VU
15:00-15:15
Coffee Break
15:15-16:15
Reflections and discussions
Reports from Workshops
16.15-17.00
Concluding remarks and wrap-up
Expert Guarantors
- doc. Ing. Silvia Ručinská, PhD., university professor, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation
- Prof. Puneet Bindlish (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Prof. dr. Sharda Nandram (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Selma Porobić, PhD., Institutional Aurora Coordinator(Palacky University Olomouc)
Organisation Team
- Mgr. Mária Vasiľová, PhD., international relations officer (UPJŠ)
- Bc. Oľga Gállová, international relations officer(UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Filip Šera, PhD., international relations officer (UPJŠ)
- Ing. Michaela Lukačinová, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Vitalii Horovenko, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Dmytro Hrytsu, researcher, PhD student (UPJŠ)
- Mgr. Milana Hrachova, PhD student (UPJŠ)
