Parallel Session 2: Engagement with community for global impact

Sub-themes in focus – sharing global perspectives: Engagement with community for global impact

What: Round Table Discussion: Parallel Session

Overview:  In these sessions we will explore the three sub-themes identified for the Congress through a range of short presentations leading into round table discussions. 

Each parallel session will have a Chair to facilitate the discussion and we hope the conversations might spark areas for future WTUN collaboration and workstream developments.

Chair: Prof Miryala Muralidhar – Board of Council, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Chair WTUN Operational Board

Speakers:

• Prof. Abdulla Al Hawaj – Ahlia, Managing Director –‘Ahlia University’s approach for local and international engagement with communities’  (Remote)

• Assistant Prof.Nanthana Boonla-or, Head of Social and Cultural Innovation Lab, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi –‘Cultural Mapping : Collaborative Tool to Leverage Community Art and Cultural Assets to Achieve Sustainable Creative Economy’ 

• Dr Jacek Lewandowski- Campus Director for Coventry University Wroclaw and the Managing Director of a Coventry University Research Institute Europe (CURIE) –‘Coventry University Wroclaw’s engagement with local communities to make EU global impact’ 

• Prof. Prathivadi Anand – Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development and Head of the Department of Peace Studies and International Development (PSID), University of Bradford ‘Sustainability ethics: Nudging the Universities with the help of students’ 

• Professor José Daniel Diniz Melo – Reitor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – ‘UNESCO Global Geopark, a case study‘