Working with entrepreneurs and stakeholders through project-based learning and consultancy projects is widely recognized as a pedagogical approach, able to favour students learning and acquisition of transversal and employability skills. Although important for all fields, it is particularly important in the field of agri-food, which requires to get in touch with the place, both economic, environmental and social, so the rural area and community, in which food is produced.
During this webinar, Prof. Cavicchi will share experiences of pedagogical practices of project-based learning with agri-food entrepreneurs carried out online during the lockdown due to pandemic. The report of the outcomes of the digital learning pathway, whose design can be transferred to other fields, identifies strengths (sometimes unexpected) and weaknesses of the design and the implementation, and further opportunities for improvement.
Date and Time
Friday, Dec 18th, 2020
11.30-12.30 AM (CET)
Link to connect:
Speaker:
Prof. Alessio Cavicchi
Alessio Cavicchi received his PhD in Economics of Food and Environmental Resources from University of Naples “Parthenope”. He is Full Professor at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism at University of Macerata (Italy). Previously he got a Master of Science (MSc) in Food Economics and Marketing from the University of Reading (UK). His main fields of interest and research are consumer food choice, economics of food quality and safety, sustainable tourism and innovation in the agro-food sector. Currently, he teaches "Place Branding and Rural Development" and "Food Economics and Marketing" in the degree of International Tourism and Destination Management.
He has experience as an invited expert for several programmes and DGs of the European Commission in the food sector (DG Research, DG Regio-Urbact, Joint Research Center, European Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation, DG Education and Culture) and he has served as an invited expert for the United Nations.
His research has been published in several international books and journals. He is the scientific coordinator of the MOOC “Sustainable Food Systems: a Mediterranean Perspective” released by SDG Academy - SDSN and Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition.
Addressed to:
- Teachers
Focus:
- Pedagogical Methods
- Field Specific: cultural heritage and tourism; place branding; citizen engagement.
Why is personal branding important for students and graduates? Simple principles about personal branding? Which are the instruments a student / graduate can use for developing own personal branding?
The aim of this activity is to offer an overall image on the importance of personal branding for students. Instruments and strategies, tips and tricks on how to develop the personal branding for a student will be presented.
Date and Time
December 21th, 2020, 13.00 (CET)
Link to connect:
https://uaic.webex.com/uaic/j.php?MTID=m89bde9f4436422d9a8770d2a4fa437a8
Speaker:
Diana CHIHAIA
Head of Students Services and Alumni Affairs (UAIC)
Șerban VORNICU
Head of Alumni and Labour Market Insertion (UAIC)
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
- Students
Focus:
- Transversal
- Pedagogical Methods
How can digital transformation impact Humanities?
On December 17, prof. Emanuele Colombo (tag) from DePaul University (tag) and prof. Sabina Pavone (tag) from UNIMC (tag) will introduce the Digital Indipetae Database (DID), a collaborative project of Digital Humanities that collects Jesuit applications for overseas missions written between the 16th and the 20th centuries.
One goal of the project is to introduce high school and university students to reading, interpreting, and transcribing primary sources and discovering different uses of digital humanities in dealing with archival sources.
The two speakers will concentrate on the LAB "From Paper to Screen" organized at the University of Macerata in October and November 2020.
To join the webinar 'From Paper to Screen - The Digital Indipetae Database at the University of Macerata,' use the following link: http://bct.unimc.it/it/webinar
Date and Time
December 17th, 2020, 16.30
Link to connect:
http://bct.unimc.it/it/webinar
Speaker:
Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University
Emanuele Colombo (PhD, University of Milan and Padua, Italy) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, Chicago. His research is focused on religious history in early modern Europe: theology and politics, Jesuit missions, and Christian-Muslim encounters in the Mediterranean. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies (Brill) and the editor of the Digital Indipetae Database (Rome-Boston College). https://depaul.academia.edu/EmanueleColombo
Sabina Pavone (University of Macerata)
Sabina Pavone is Associate Professor in Early-Modern History at the University of Macerata. She wrote several books on Jesuits in Russia, anti-Jesuitism, conversions and Jesuits missions in India. Among her works: The Wily Jesuits (2005, or. ed. 2000); Una strana alleanza. La Compagnia di Gesù in Russia dal 1772 al 1820 (2010); Compel People to Come In. Violence and Catholic Conversions in the non-European World, coed. with Vincenzo Lavenia, Stefania Pastore, Chiara Petrolini (2018).
Addressed to:
- Teachers
Focus:
- Pedagogical Methods
- Field Specific: cultural heritage and tourism; place branding; citizen engagement.
A short presentation of the project is available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEz18qUZk3o&feature=youtu.be)
The intentions of tech developers and tech companies are often good. But ethical problems arise when technology ends up allowing discrimination or exclusion. These are generally unintended consequences of technology with harmful effects on human life.
Therefore, a fundamental exercise that we can do when faced with the challenge of remedying them is to seek answers to important questions such as:
Improvement for whom? The government or the citizens? The company or the workers?
Because issues related to power often come into play and a suggestive way to analyse them is with a sociological perspective and ask:
what is the future of work? What kind of life will we have when algorithms and artificial intelligence take over the jobs? And who is the "we"? Who will benefit from this transformation and who will lose?
The speaker will explain the impact of technology on society from the ethical point of view. Ethical problems arise when technology ends up allowing discrimination or exclusion. The questions to answer will be: what is the future of work? What kind of life will we have when algorithms and artificial intelligence take over the jobs? And who is the "we"? Who will benefit from this transformation and who will lose? The digitalization brings improvement for whom? The government or the citizens? The company or the workers?
Date and Time
11 December 2020
4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. (CET)
Link to connect:
The connection link to the virtual space that will be used for this activity will be sent to the registered people. Access directly here: meet.google.com/kun-yini-dxb
Speaker:
Dr Madelon van Oostrom,
Hanze University of Applied Sciences (HUAS), Groningen, The Netherlands
Teacher and researcher on innovation, entrepreneurial leadership, and digital literacy at HUAS, The Netherlands.
Also, she is a volunteering mentor at KANS Mentoring in Groningen. Back in The Netherlands since 2017 after 25 years of living, studying, and working in Spain where the last 10 years she worked as an innovation professional at a Science and Technology Park (Tenerife) and helped design and execute innovation policy for regional development, entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer.
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
- Students
Focus:
- Transversal
Why to consider developing and what to look for when talking about entrepreneurship capacities? How digitalization supports entrepreneurship learning and spurs entrepreneurial activity? How to better appreciate your entrepreneurial capacities?
This webinar discuss why to consider developing entrepreneurship capacities, presents how digitalization supports entrepreneurship learning and spurs entrepreneurial activity. Also it intends to help students to better appreciate their entrepreneurial capacities and their potential on entrepreneurial capital. During the session the participants will be invited to actively reflect to what the successful entrepreneur is and also, they will fill in The Self Nomination Guide on Entrepreneurial Talent Traits. This is a spotting tool which includes a list of entrepreneurial characteristics, attitudes and behaviors formulated based on literature review.
Date and Time
4th of December 2020, 3 pm CET
Link to connect:
https://uaic.webex.com/uaic/e.php?MTID=m6c266d6b068dda5dd45e7b1ca9efcc20
Speaker:
Dr Madelon van Oostrom,
Carmen Mihaela CREȚU, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Corina FORĂSCU - Faculty of Computer Science (UAIC)
Sorin ANTON - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (UAIC)
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
- Students
Focus:
- Transversal
In the traditional narrative, Open Education approaches, including the use of OER, MOOCs and open teaching practices, aim to increase equity of education and at improving the quality of teaching, mostly by allowing the re-use of openly-licensed contents produced by others. This is certainly true, but research is starting to document the fact that Open Educational approaches bear also the potential to innovate teaching practices, by facilitating students engagement, responsibility and co-creation of knowledge. The webinar will present some interesting open teaching practices, connecting them to the competences that educators need to build in order to put those in practice, and providing some ideas on how these competences can be developed.
Date and Time
December 2 nd , 2020
10.00 – 11.00 (CET)
Link to connect:
Speaker:
Prof. Fabio Nascimbeni
Fabio Nascimbeni works as Assistant Professor at the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), where holds the Telefonica Chair on Digital Society and Education. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Distance and eLearning Network (EDEN), a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Education Working of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a fellow at the Centro de Estudos sobre Tecnologia e Sociedade of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil and at the Nexa Centre of the Politecnico di Torino. He has been active in the field of learning innovation and ICT for learning since 1998, by designing and coordinating more than 40 research and innovation projects and promoting European and international collaboration in different areas, from school education to higher education, to lifelong learning, to ICT research. He has been working across Europe as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, the South Mediterranean and South-East Asia. His main research interests are open education, learning innovation, digital literacy, social and digital inclusion.
Addressed to:
- Teachers
Focus:
- Pedagogical Methods
- Field Specific: cultural heritage and tourism; place branding; citizen engagement.
Nowadays, Labour Market is evolving rapidly: digital transformation, smart working, … Professionals are required to continuously review and increase their skills to be aligned to market needs. In this scenario, Universities play a key role in training and education of future managers and professionals. How to support them in optimizing their placement and training activities? Big Data can provide a novel and valuable way to analyze and monitor Labour Market needs. In this session we will introduce the methodology of Labour Market Intelligence and we will explain how Online Job Vacancies analysis can support fulfilling successful goals.
Date and Time
9th December at 11:00 CET Time
Link to connect:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/87635550662
Speaker:
Alessandro Vaccarino: Alessandro was born in 1987 at Monza, he studied at Politecnico di Milano, where he obtained a degree in computer engineering.
He worked as a DWH&BI senior consultant at Aubay in several finance area project.
After a master degree in Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics, he started working as a Data Scientist and Big Data consultant at Tabulaex, actually part of Burning Glass Technologies.
Alessandro Vaccarino: Alessandro was born in 1987 at Monza, he studied at Politecnico di Milano, where he obtained a degree in computer engineering.
He worked as a DWH&BI senior consultant at Aubay in several finance area project.
After a master degree in Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics, he started working as a Data Scientist and Big Data consultant at Tabulaex, actually part of Burning Glass Technologies.
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
Focus:
- Pedagogical Methods
- Field Specific: cultural heritage and tourism; place branding; citizen engagement.
The objective of this activity is to share the experience of university former students in the development of their projects in order to serve as examples to inspire university students. Special interest will be put in debating the type of digital skills that have been needed for the success of these projects.
Programme:
- Entrepreneurship as professional development
- Speaker: Carmen Inés Ruiz de La Rosa, Head of DISA Foundation Chair of Young Entrepreneurs of the University of La Laguna
- Alouette Atelier: Reinventing the future
- Speaker: Patricia Hernández, Public Works Technical Engineer, specialty in Hydrology, CEO of Alouette Atelier
- PeakLand: Our symbol
- Speaker: José Vigo Casais, Graduated in Business Administration and Management at the University of La Laguna, CEO of Peakland
- Carmen Dauta: Designing high-quality jewelry
- Speaker: Carmen Dauta, Degree in Pedagogy, Master in Protocol and Founder and creative director of the firm of Alta Bisutería Carmen Dauta
- Canarian Aboriginal: Canarian culture
- Speaker: Julián Callejas, Graduated in Business Administration and Management at the University of La Laguna and CEO of Canarian Aboriginal
Date and Time:
November 6, 2020
10:00 – 11.30 a.m.
Link to connect:
https://www.ull.es/portal/agenda/evento/ejemplos-inspiradores-emprendimiento-y-moda/
The connection link to the virtual space for this activity will be sent to the registered persons by email.
Speakers:
Carmen Inés Ruiz de La Rosa. Head of DISA Foundation Chair of Young Entrepreneurs of the University of La Laguna and Professor of Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance of the University of La Laguna Patricia Hernández. Public Works Technical Engineer, specialty in Hydrology, CEO of Alouette Atelier
José Vigo Casais. Graduated in Business Administration and Management at the University of La Laguna, CEO of Peakland
Carmen Dauta. Degree in Pedagogy, Master in Protocol and founder and creative director of the firm of Alta Bisutería Carmen Dauta
Julián Callejas. Graduated in Business Administration and Management at the University of La Laguna and CEO of Canarian Aboriginal
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
- Students
Focus:
- Transversal
- Pedagogical Methods
- Teaching Design
How artificial intelligence and digital transformation will change the future of work?
Digital tools, AI and machine learning are already changing the way we work, and the future will see other big changes. AI could also create more jobs and help us recruit candidates as long as people are willing to adapt and work smarter.
On November, 30th we’d like to invite you all to the webinar run by professor Emanuele Frontoni from UNIVPM who will give an overview of the AI area and its applications, showing different examples of how new technologies are reshaping our life and our way of working. The activity will be in English. To join the event, you can access the following link: https://zoom.us/j/7981734078
Date and Time
30 November 2020
10.00 - 11.00 AM (CET)
Link to connect:
Speaker:
Prof. Emanuele Frontoni
Emanuele Frontoni is Professor Computer Vision and Deep Learning at the Department of Information Engineering (DII) of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona - Italy. His research activity is focused in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence with applications in big data, a novel distributed data architectures video analysis and human behaviour analysis. He is also involved in several AI projects in the field of health data interoperability, cloud-based deep learning technologies and big data analysis. He coordinated and participated in several industrial R&D projects in collaboration with ICT and mechatronics companies in the field of Industry 4.0 and Robotic Vision.
He is an expert for EU Commission in H2020 project evaluations and is currently involved in 2 ongoing
EU projects (DWC and ROSIN sub-call). He is a member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, of the European AI Alliance and of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.
Addressed to:
- Teachers
Focus:
- Pedagogical Methods
- Field Specific: cultural heritage and tourism; place branding; citizen engagement.
The objective of this activity is to share the experience of university former students in the development of their projects in order to serve as examples to inspire university students. Special interest will be put in debating the type of digital skills that have been needed for the success of these projects.
Date and Time
20 November 2020
10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. (UTC+1)
Link to connect:
https://www.ull.es/portal/agenda/evento/ejemplos-inspiradores-viajar-para-emprender/
The connection link to the virtual space that will be used for this activity will be sent to the registered people.
Organisation
Carmen Inés Ruiz de La Rosa. Head of DISA Foundation Chair of Young Entrepreneurs of the University of La Laguna and Professor of Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance of the University of La Laguna
Speakers
Carlos Jonay Suárez Suárez, Digital strategy consultant
Carlos Morales Perdomo, CEO of Tremendoviaje.com
Laura Plasencia Socas, CEO of Jump into Freedom
Summary of content:
“Working remotely: A model of life”
Carlos Jonay Suárez Suárez, Digital strategy consultant
“A job for travelling”
Carlos Morales Perdomo, CEO of Tremendoviaje.com
“New cultures: life experiences”
Laura Plasencia Socas, CEO of Jump into Freedom
Addressed to:
- Teachers
- Career Counsellors
- Students
Focus:
- Transversal
- Pedagogical Methods
- Teaching Design
