How to favour social inclusion and equity in universities?
The UAB will offer the Third International MISEAL Conference from 17 to 19 November in which over 150 participants will present proposals to design and implement measures against social exclusion and inequalities existing in the higher education sector. The conference is organised by the UAB Observatory for Equality.
Focusing on the issue of “New Challenges for Social Inclusion and Equity in Higher Education”, the third edition of this conference will include the opinions of experts and the presentation of research projects and innovative measures being taken to build a more inclusive university. It will also focus on the analysis of inequalities and the development of policies and practices in higher education from a transnational perspective, based on the articulation of positions and identities of social class, age, gender, disability, race-ethnic group and sexual orientation.
During the meeting, the contributions of the MISEAL project to the university community will be presented, both the results and good practices which emerge from their implementation in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America and Europe.
On 17 and 18 November the conference will take place at the UAB Casa Convalèscencia in Barcelona, while on 19 November all sessions will take place at the Rectorate building of the UAB Bellaterra campus.
The opening session will be presided by Ferran Sancho, Rector of the UAB, and will include the presence of Claudi Alsina i Català, Secretary General of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia.
The closing session will take place in the afternoon of 19 November and will be offered by Sílvia Carrasco, Vice Rector for Students and Cooperation at the UAB.
The conference will end with an integrated dance performance by the university's dance group, run jointly by the university and its centre for attention to the disabled, PIUNE.
Third International MISEAL Conference