Month: August 2024

Binghamton U: Education Abroad Advisor (USA)

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Education Abroad Advisor, Binghamton University (AKA SUNY-Binghamton), Binghamton, NY, USA. Deadline: 15 September 2024 or until filled.

The Office of International Education and Global Initiatives (IEGI) administers Binghamton University’s international exchange and education abroad programs. The Education Abroad Advisor provides professional-level administrative, technical, and programmatic support to the functions assigned to the IEGI. The designated responsibilities are to be performed with attention to accuracy, clear and courteous communication with IEGI partners, and the efficiency required in a public university environment. Energetic enthusiasm is important for the promotional and outreach functions of this position. The applicant must maintain excellent working relationships with faculty, education abroad directors and advisors, counterparts in other institutions in the U.S. and abroad, Binghamton University campus offices, and with students and parents. The Education Abroad Advisor needs to exercise high levels of diplomacy, patience, cooperation, collegial communication, and, on occasion, the ability to be calmly firm. The Education Abroad Advisor reports to the Associate Director of International Education and Global Initiatives.

COE Online Course on Global Education & ICD (Portugal)

Professional OpportunitiesOnline course on Global Citizenship Education and Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue, 7 October-3 November 2024. Deadline: 22 September 2024.

Part of the iLEGEND III project, the training course aims at providing participants with new skills and competences on Global Education, Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue and Human Rights. It targets education practitioners in the formal and non-formal sector, media professionals and members of Civil Society Organisations and Faith-Based Organisations to:

  • reflect on Global Education, its concept, principles, and methodology;

  • analyse relevant notions related to Intercultural/Interfaith Dialogue, such as culture, discrimination, racism, majority/minority, inclusion/exclusion, etc;

  • develop specific competences focused on defusing and recognising potential conflicts, and actively promoting a culture of peace and non-violence;

  • promote networking among participants involved in global awareness-raising or educational actions.

The conceptual and methodological framework of the course is based on the Global Education Guidelines, systematised by the North-South Centre. Through a non-formal learning approach, collaborative and interactive activities and exercises allow participants to contribute to their own learning process.

The training course is fully online, hosted on HELP CoE e-learning platform. Two tutors will accompany participants during the 4-week activity. The expected workload is approximately 25 hours in total. The activity programme is structured in 4 modules (one module per week). The training course will be mainly asynchronous: this means that each participant will learn on their own schedule and pace, completing activities and exercises. At the end of the training, participants will obtain a certificate of participation.

40 participants will be selected for this activity, preferably between 18 and 30 years old, and coming from one of the North-South Centre member state, a Southern neighborhood or Sub-Saharan Africa country or a Council of Europe member state. However, a quota is available for citizens from other countries. The course will take place in English.

CFP Communication Institute of Greece Conferences 2025 (Greece)

Conferences

Call for papers: Two overlapping conferences, Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG), Athens, Greece. Deadline: 29 October 2024.

9th International Conference on Communication and Management by Communication Institute of GreeceThe 9th International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2025), Reimagining Leadership: Exploring Innovative Pathways For Business and Communication, 30 June – 4 July 2025,  in Athens, Greece.

 

5th International Conference on Education - COMING EDU2025The 5th International Conference on Education (EDU2025), Reimagining Education and Nurturing Learner Wellbeing, 30 June – 04 July 2025, in Athens, Greece.

CFP JALT: Intercultural Competencies and Higher Education

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Call for submissions to a special issue of the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching on Intercultural Competencies and Higher Education. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2024; full papers will be due 30 April 2025.

Guest Editor: Dr. Kyriaki Koukouraki.

In today’s globalized world, fostering intercultural understanding and skills in higher education is more crucial than ever. This special issue aims to explore innovative approaches, research, and practices that enhance intercultural competencies among students, educators, and institutions. Potential submissions may include: research articles, opinion pieces, brief articles, case studies, and book reviews

Topics of Interest Include (but are not limited to):
– Intercultural Competencies and Faculty Development
– Intercultural Competencies and Assessment
– Intercultural Competencies and Global Citizenship
– Non-Western approaches to Intercultural Competencies

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program 2024

FellowshipsFellowships, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, Institute for International Education, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 18 September 2024.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE, the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). A total of 705 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships.

Accredited African universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and member institutions of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and partner universities with the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) can submit a project request to host an African-born scholar currently living in the United States or Canada to work on projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development. The host institution can collaborate with a specific scholar on the project request or submit without naming a scholar. If the host submits without naming a scholar, IIE will search their Roster of qualified candidates to be matched to the request.

African-born academics currently living in the United States or Canada and working at institutions of higher education can submit a Scholar Application to the Scholar Roster. The scholar can work with a specific host institution on a Project Request or remain on the roster until a project that fits their expertise is submitted by an African host institution.

U Pacific: What’s Up With Culture? Online Cultural Training Resource

Study Abroad

What’s Up With Culture? Online Cultural Training Resource, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA.

This open access online course offers an opportunity to explore various aspects of intercultural communication and adjustment models to learn what is required to be effective and comfortable while going abroad and living internationally. It is designed to be part of a student’s training rather than to stand alone, but it provides a good start.

This material was developed to support and enhance a student’s ability to make successful cultural adjustments both before going overseas and upon returning home from studying abroad. It was produced primarily for traditional-aged, undergraduate US-American university students. Those preparing to participate in a study abroad program will find the first seven sections useful while those who are about to, or have, returned home from an international program can refer to the final four sections. The focus is generally on the concept of culture and how it impacts one’s ability to understand and function in a new and unfamiliar environment. It concentrates on the skills, attitudes, and behaviors which all study abroad students, regardless of their specific destination, will find useful.

NAFSA: Associate Director, Education Abroad Services (USA)

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Associate Director, Education Abroad Services, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 9 October 2024.

The associate director supports the development and delivery of programs, products, and services for the education abroad community, using core competencies in program development and delivery, communications, people development, and relationship cultivation. Responsibilities include serving as the strategic staff partner to education abroad volunteer leaders; leading outreach to increase awareness of NAFSA’s resources for education abroad; creating, encouraging, and/or reviewing new and refreshed content in education abroad; monitoring regulatory issues affecting education abroad; and managing virtual and onsite events with effective communication and event planning.

William & Mary U: Global Education Special Programs Advisor (USA)

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Global Education Special Programs Advisor, William & Mary University, Williamsburg, VA, USA. Deadline: 6 September 2024.

William & Mary is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Global Education Special Programs Advisor with the Global Education Office / Reves Center for International Studies. The incumbent advises students on study abroad opportunities in a select portfolio of countries and manages a set of faculty-led study abroad programs for undergraduate and professional schools. This position also supports curricular integration efforts by collaborating with all academic departments for transfer credits and assisting with innovative study abroad and on-campus global programs. The incumbent also plays a key role in sustainability efforts of the office and contributes actively to GEO’s work related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

A Taste of Harmony (Australia)

Applied ICDA Taste of Harmony, Australia, 17 March-18 April 2025.

 

Food brings people together. It’s something we can all share.

A Taste of Harmony is Australia’s largest celebration of cultural diversity and it was especially created for the workplace (but could easily be adapted to other contexts, such as education). The goal is to use food as a way of bringing people together to share, discover and learn about each other’s cultural heritage.

There are many ways for workplaces to participate in A Taste of Harmony, from encouraging staff to bring in food that reflects their cultural origins to share with their colleagues to more elaborate events. The key is bringing people together and creating a fun, informal way for colleagues to share their cultural heritage through food and discover more about their co-workers.

Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters

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Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters, Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity, Council of Europe.

The Autobiography is a resource designed to encourage people to think about and learn from intercultural encounters they have had either face to face or through visual media such as television, magazines, films, the Internet, etc.

There are therefore two separate but parallel tools:

And both come in two versions:

    • A Standard Version – for use by older learners and adults
    • A Version for Younger Learners – for use by children who need help from an adult in reading and writing and in thinking back over their encounter.

The focus is on intercultural encounters that have made a strong impression or had a long-lasting effect on the people who use the AIE or AIEVM. In discovering what underlies these encounters, users become more aware of their experience and reflect on their reactions, thereby developing their intercultural competences.

A self-study online course is also available for educators and youth workers who would like guidance in working with the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters.