Global Trends need Global Citizens: The Impact Universities Must Achieve 3. December 2024 | 17:10 h - 18:15 h
Opening keynote of the Base Camp International Teaching
A number of global trends challenge us and this planet. The world needs global citizens who are able to cope with and address these changes in the upcoming decades. Higher Education plays a key role in producing global citizens but it will not be enough to just educate a small elite of graduates and academics. We need to develop every human being into a global citizen who understands how inter-twined our lives are, what responsibilities each of us carries on a global scale, and how we depend on decisions in other parts of the world. In order to achieve this, universities need to move beyond producing internationally aware graduates and start using their international assets and potentials for the benefit of the wider community, applying the concept of Internationalisation in Higher Education for Society (IHES). The keynote will present very concrete examples of such possibilities and show options for the TU Braunschweig to help educating the public towards a global mindset that is needed to deal with the changes that lie ahead.
Venue: Architekturpavillon, Pockelsstraße 4, 38106 Braunschweig
Uwe Brandenburg holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, an MscEcon from the University of Swansea, and an M.A. in Islamic Sciences from the WWU Münster.
He is Managing Director of the Global Impact Institute, held an Assoc.Prof. at the University Rovira I Virgili (2017-2021), and is a guest lecturer at the ESCP Berlin. Prior to that he was Managing Partner of CHE Consult as well as Director International at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
He has published widely on internationalization and led three major impact studies: the Erasmus Impact Study (EIS, 2014), the follow-up EIS Regional Analysis (EIS RA, 2016), and the European Voluntary Service Impact Study (2017). He presents on international conferences and teaches at different universities.
Lecturer
Uwe Brandenburg, PhD