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LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT STUDENT INCLUSION AND BELONGING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Event Type: Inclusiveness Meetup – #IBelong Multiplier Event  

Date: 14.12.2021, Tuesday

Time: 10.00 – 15:00 CET / 9:00 – 14:00 WEST

Location: Online (link will be sent to registered participants ahead of the event). No registration fee.

Hosting institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

EVENT SUMMARY

During this event we will look back at three years of #IBelong by sharing what we have collaboratively done and learned to improve sense of belonging in a disruptively changed context. Changes erupted due to Covid-19, due to the prevalence of global social movements against racism, sexism and hetero-sexism, and due to the existing inequities in access and persistence in higher education. We have learned what sense of belonging means to students and university lecturers in different regional and national contexts of the consortium partners while also learning from other contexts by colleagues working at universities in the Global South.

Furthermore, we will be moving forward by sharing new conceptualizations of the tools and instruments developed by the #IBelong consortium, introducing ideas and outcomes of other relevant EU funded projects such as #MultInclude, E-Include, Connecting our Future, Students-4-Students practices of other regions and the urban context.

We are keen to provide a platform with this event to capture your thinking and experiences on how sense of belonging can be improved to make higher education more equitable, more diverse and more inclusive for students and  staff and what this means to research, practice and institutional policy.

This Inclusiveness Meetup is the final  #IBelong Multiplier Event. This event will be organized by ECHO, Center for Diversity Policy and Erasmus University Rotterdam who is the coordinating partner of #IBelong

The project #IBelong – ‘Towards a sense of belonging in an inclusive learning environment’ aims at improving the experiences and outcomes of students from diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to migrant students and first-generation entrants) through creating a more inclusive learning environment in higher education.

EVENT PROGRAMME

Link to the event will be added ahead of the event

CET:

10.00–12.00

GMT:

09.00–11.00

First Part: Looking back
 10.00–10.20

/9.00-9.20 GMT

Welcome and opening

Professor Dr. Semiha Denktas, Chief Diversity Officer at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

10.20–11.10

/9.20-10.10 GMT

#IBelong partner discussion and reflection

The aim of this session is to appoint what three years of #Ibelong yielded in terms of (attention for) diverse students’ sense of belonging in higher education, the importance of meaningful interactions between students and staff and among students, and the inclusiveness of higher education learning
environments.
The #Ibelong team will elaborate on its experiences in the sustainable implementation of #Ibelong interventions, including chances and challenges when switching to online education.

Discussants:

Mary Tupan – Expert Centre Diversity in Higher Education, the Netherlands
Liz Thomas – Edge Hill University, UK
Marieke Meeuwisse – Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Miriam Lotze – Osnabrück University, Germany
Sofia Marquez da Silva – University of Porto, Portugal

Moderator: Ivana Stanojev, Knowledge Innovation Centre (KIC, Malta)

11.10–11.15

/10.10-10.15 GMT

IBelong Videos
11.15–11.55

/10.15-10.55 GMT

The importance of sense of belonging for student success.  

Panel session with two students and two staff members who participated in #IBelong, reflecting on the importance of sense of belonging in higher education.

Students:

Amina Koric, EUR

Joshua Pätzold, UOS

Staff members:

Kim Ouwehand, EUR

Aike Dias-Broens, MSc, EUR

Moderator: Ivana Stanojev, Knowledge Innovation Centre (KIC, Malta)

11.55–12.00

/10.55-11.00 GMT

Closing morning session
12.00–13.00

/11.00-12.00 GMT

Lunch Break
13.00–15.00

/12.00-14.00 GMT

Second Part:  Moving Forward
13.00–13.45

/12.00-12.45 GMT

Impact of Covid-19 on sense of belonging.

Synergy session between #IBelong university partners and other universities and programmes on how we navigate in challenging times to create sense of belonging in online/ hybrid education.

Discussants:

Dr. Sofia Marques da Silva, #Ibelong partner, University of Porto, Portugal –
Inma Rodríguez-Ardura, professor at Open University Catalunya. Partner EU
funded project E-Inclusion
Katja Urbach, founder and director of Arbeiterskind.de, a national program
aiming at first generation students in higher education in Germany

Moderator: Prof. dr. Liz Thomas, Edge Hill University, UK

13.45–14.00

/12.45-13.00 GMT

IBelong Videos
 14.00–14.50

/13.00-13.50 GMT

Sharing ‘power’ with students

Engaging with students from programme design to programme implementation to make education more inclusive while taking the needs and contexts of students’ lives into account.

Students:

Daphne Leenders, student-assistant Pre-Academic Programme, EUR
Rumeysa Unal, student UvA, Chair of the board of Diversity Talks and participating in a student lead Students-4-Students project
Floris van der Meer, student VU Amsterdam, Boardmember Student Association FAM and participating in a student lead Students-4- Students program
Darren Lord, student Edgehill University, active in the #IBelong project EHU

Moderator: Arundathi de Saram, ECHO

14.50–15.00

/13.50-14.00 GMT

Closing

By dr. Marieke Meeuwisse, #Ibelong project leader

#IBELONG RESOURCES:

Dialogue Days (DD)

Dialogue Days Toolkit
Toolkit Demo
Learn more

Team Teacher Reflections (TTR)

Team Teacher Reflection Manual
Manual Demo
Learn more

Community Mentoring (CM)

Community Mentoring Manual
Manual Demo
Learn more

Towards a Sense of Belonging in an Inclusive Learning Environment (#IBelong)

Project Ref: 2018-1-NL01-KA203-038965

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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