Speaker: Independent education expert, Sjur Bergan

Abstract:
One characteristic of the populist surge in Europe and the United States is its disregard for academically based knowledge and understanding. It is therefore urgent that higher education demonstrate its importance to society.

The role of higher education is rooted in its values and in providing the knowledge and understanding democratic societies need to remain democratic.  One way higher education can demonstrate how it affects people에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s lives positively is by working with 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ and not just in 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ the local communities of which universities are a part. The local mission of universities complements its national, European, and global missions.

Europe is a diverse continent, and there is no single model of community engagement. Nevertheless, some common denominators can be identified, and these will be explored in the talk. The local mission of higher education must be not just economic but societal and democratic.  Contradictory as it may seem, the local democratic mission also requires some kind of platform or coordination at European level to put the local democratic mission on the political agenda, exchange examples of good practice, and build a European approach.

Bio:
Sjur Bergan is an independent education expert. He was Head of the Council of Europe에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트™s Education Department until February 1, 2022. Sjur represented the Council of Europe in the Bologna Follow Up Group and Board between 2000 and April 2022 and chaired working groups on structural reforms in 2007 - 15. He was a member of EHEA groups on the fundamental values of higher education 2018 에볼루션 카지노 웹사이트“ 24 and a key author of the  adopted by EHEA Ministers in May 2024.

Sjur led the Council of Europe contributions  to the  (with partners in the US and International Association of Universities),  and the .  He was a main author of the  as well as of recommendations on the ; ; and . 

Sjur was series editor of the . He is the author of Qualifications: Introduction to a Concept and Not by Bread Alone as well as of , published by Temple University Press in March 2025. He holds honorary doctorates from Dublin City University (2022) and the University of Oslo (2024) and is the recipient of the  for .

Chair: Professor Susan Wright, Co-Director of CHEF, 에볼루션카지노, Aarhus University, Denmark