#IBelong Inclusiveness Meetup @Porto University
Scaling Up For Equity: Lessons from the #IBelong Project to Improve Diversity, Belonging and Success
VIDEO RECORDINGS:
Setting the Scene for the Inclusiveness Meetup
Amélia Lopes (Vice-dean of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, UPORTO/CIIE, PT)
Setting the Scene for the Inclusiveness Meetup
Introductory notes by Sofia Marques da Silva (CIIE-FPCEUP – IBelong UPORTO team leader, PT) and Marieke Meeuwisse (Associate Professor in Educational Sciences and #IBelong project leader, EUR, NL)
Challenges during the transitions into higher education
Discussion with upper secondary and university students share perspectives
Exchanging knowledge
#IBelong products and toolkits
Welcoming place, epistemic and relational diversity – Universities as Pluriversities
Keynote by Isabel Menezes, Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (UPORTO/CIIE, PT)
Scaling up mentoring
Examples from #IBelong partners
Understanding Privilege and Systems of Power
Power Walk Workshop moderated by Pravini Baboeram, ECHO, Expertise Center for Diversity Policy, NL
Closing remarks and ATITUNA online musical act
Closing remarks by Marieke Meeuwisse (EUR, NL) and Sofia Marques da Silva (UPORTO, PT) and online musical performance by ATITUNA
Being student-mentor at @UPorto
Mariana Fonseca, student mentor at Porto University
Programme (click to expand)
| 9.00-9.15 | Setting the Scene for the Inclusiveness Meetup:
Sofia Marques da Silva (CIIE-FPCEUP – IBelong UPORTO team leader PT) Marieke Meeuwisse (Associate Professor in Educational Sciences and #IBelong project leader, EUR, NL) Amélia Lopes (Vice-dean of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, UPORTO/CIIE, PT) |
| 9.15 – 10.00 | Challenges during the transitions into higher education: Upper secondary and university students share perspectives
Moderator: Sofia Marques da Silva |
| 10.00-10.15 | Coffee break |
| 10.15- 11.00 | Exchanging knowledge: I Belong products and toolkits
This session is dedicated to a brief presentation of products and results of the #IBelong project followed by discussing knowledge transference inside and outside higher education institutions. Moderator: Mary Tupan-Wenno Liz Thomas (EHL, UK) Marieke Meeuwisse (EUR, NL) Miriam Lotze (UOS, DE) Sofia Marques da Silva (UP) Comments: Eliana Amaral (Med School and State Council on Education for Sao Paulo, University of Campinas, UNICAMP) and Fumane Portia Khanare (University of the Free State, South Africa) |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Keynote by Isabel Menezes, Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (UPORTO/CIIE, PT)
Welcoming place, epistemic and relational diversity – Universities as pluriversities “Even if there is strong discussion on the place (global? national?) of higher education in contemporary times, universities are emplaced in actual communities – spatial and geographic communities, disciplinary and academic communities, but also relational and affective communities” Moderator: Pravini Baboeram (ECHO) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch Break |
| 13.00-14.00 | Scaling up mentoring: Examples from #IBelong partners
Four peer mentoring programmes at different developing stages will be debated and discussed, sharing ideas on how mentoring programmes may be transferred to other contexts inside and outside higher education. Moderator: Liz Thomas Mentoring Programme University Osnabrueck – Miriam Lotze Comments: Nádia Cruz (Communication & Marketing Manager, Natixis , PT) and Fumane |
| 14.00-14.45 | Understanding Privilege and Systems of Power
Moderator: Pravini Baboeram, ECHO, Expertise Center for Diversity Policy, NL Pravini Baboeram will drive a reflection about diversity and equity departing from higher education to other social contexts, using a powerful tool like «power walk» in which all participants may join. |
| 14.45-15.00 | Closing remarks
Marieke Meeuwisse (EUR, NL) Sofia Marques da Silva (UPORTO, PT) |
| 15.00-15.15 | Virtual Port Wine celebration + musical performance by ATITUNA |
#IBELONG RESOURCES:
Dialogue Days (DD)
Team Teacher Reflections (TTR)
Community Mentoring (CM)
#IBELONG TALKS:
#IBelong Talks
What makes us belong, and how does sense of belonging impact our academic achievements, as described by Liz Thomas from Edge Hill University.
#IBelong Talks
How a first generation student transformed challenges into opportunities, Susanne Menzel’s (President of Osnabruck University, DE) personal success story.
#IBelong Talks
Discussing the importance of institutional commitment to diversity and inclusion, the leadership perspective with Laura Den Dulk (EUR, NL)
#IBelong Talks
Reflection discussion on sense of belonging in higher education amid racial inequality protest movements with Pravini Baboeram (ECHO, NL)
