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Who explains today's world? UNESCO and OECD provide answers
International Conference with Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
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- Date: 23.01.2020, 15.00 - 19.30
- Place: Auditorium, Eurac Research
- Typology: International Conference
The world has become more multi-faceted and complex in recent years. To act appropriately, we need to understand the key forces and mechanisms in play - and project them into the future. With a special focus on “future education” (Futures Literacy), the science of independent, individual and collective understanding and anticipation of the future. Such understanding today is provided by two of the most important think tanks in the world: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Both are dedicated to global cooperation and development.
Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies brings both organisations together in Bozen-Bolzano for a joint foresight process: What awaits us in the coming years? What are the main trends? What do they mean for Europe and South Tyrol in particular?
UNESCO and OECD provide answers based on partly unpublished data, political and economic global strategies of leading world powers, and the foresight process of both organisations. Clear, generally understandable and practice-oriented, UNESCO and OECD explain the world that lies ahead - so that South Tyrol can draw its conclusions.
Languages: German, Italian, English (with simultaneous translation).
Free entry.
No registration required.
Pillars of Contemporary Global Development and Futures Literacy
Riel Miller, Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCOUnderstanding the Future: How to Read the Current Global Trends?
Edgar Göll, Institute for Future Studies & Technology Assessment and FU BerlinAvant-garde Technology as a Timely Force of Global Development
Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, UNESCO Chair on Futures ResearchFutures Literacy as Part of a Whole School Cross-Curricular Approach
Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Professor emeritus, former Director at the Institute for Social Sciences and Education in History and Politics, TU BerlinSmall and Medium Enterprises in Today’s Global Framework: Role, Situation and Perspectives
Sergio Arzeni, President of INSME - International Network of SMEs Brussels and Rome, former Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SME and Local Development, ParisEducation, Research and Science in Contemporary Global Development: What Is Possible, What Is Not?
Barbara Ischinger, Associate Professor of African Studies at Cologne University, OECD Director of Education and Skills (PISA) 2006-2014, UNESCO Director of Cultural Communication 1992-1994, Vice-President of Humboldt University Berlin (International Relations and Communication) 2000-2005Women, Inequality and the Environment: The Core Issues of Today’s Politics?
Nicola Brandt, Head of the OECD Berlin CentreThe Role and Impact of Democracy in the Contemporary Global Scenery: Between Disappointment and Hope
Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium 2009-2011, OECD Deputy Secretary-General 2011-2014
Programme
15:00 | Welcome and Opening
Roland Psenner, President of Eurac Research
15:05 | Introduction: A Basic Framework of Today’s Global Situation and the Need for Futures Literacy
Roland Benedikter, Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
15:30 | Discussion 1: Where Stands the World Today? The Perspective of the Unesco
Moderation: Harald Pechlaner, Head of the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
16:45 | Coffee break
17:00 | Discussion 2: Where Stands the World Today? The Perspective of the OECD
Moderation: Roland Benedikter, Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
18:00 | Coffee break
18:30 | Today’s Main Global Trends and Perspectives
Conference with Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of Belgium 2009-2011, OECD Deputy Secretary-General 2011-2014
Discutants: Paweł Karolewski, Professor of political theory and research on democracy, University of Leipzig and Andrea Billi, Director of Sapienza Innovazione
Moderation: Ingrid Kofler, Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research
19:30 | End of the Conference
Organisation
Eurac Research
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