MCO Webinar

The Magna Charta Universitatum 2020 declares ‘Universities have a civic role and responsibility. They are part of global, collegial networks of scientific enquiry and scholarship, building on shared bodies of knowledge and contributing to their further development. They also are embedded in local cultures and crucially relevant to their future and enrichment. While they are immersed in and connected with global developments, they engage fully with and assume leading roles in local communities and ecosystems.’

Latin America is currently witnessing a resurgence of interest in the different ways that higher education institutions can contribute to democratic development through stronger engagement with civil society. The ‘university extension’ movement dating back to the early 1900s is going through a revival that is contributing to the democratic mission of the university. It takes different forms and has different names – extension, engagement, linkages, solidarity service learning, participatory action research, social responsibility, etc – but they all share a common purpose, namely, to place the traditional teaching and research functions of the university within the overall context of the community and society in which it operates.
 
The purpose of this webinar is to share first-hand perspectives from Latin American countries so that the experience of Latin America can become part of the global conversation around the democratic mission of the university and the way it may best engage with its local community and civil society.
 
The webinar will be moderated by Ronaldo Munck, head of civic engagement at Dublin City University in Ireland and co-editor (with Yadira Pinilla, Rita Hodges and Catherine Bartch) of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Civic engagement and the democratic mission.

The Magna Charta Observatory in association with the Global Cooperation for the Democratic Mission of Higher Education invites to this webinar.

When?

• 6 December 2023
• 0900 – 1030 EST
• 1500 – 1630 CET

Admission is free of charge

Please register here
 
This webinar is one of a series leading to the MCO’s 2024 Anniversary Conference which will be held in Washington DC in the Autumn.