The SHARE Newsletter - May 2022
Happy Europe Day 2022
The month of May–May 9th in particular–is significant for the SHARE Programme as it's when we celebrate Europe Day, together with the EU Delegation to ASEAN, EU Member State missions to the region and our ASEAN friends and colleagues.
This year, SHARE alumni and current participants have made a video to mark the occasion and wish everyone a happy Europe Day 2022. In addition to highlighting the strong dialogue partnership and bond between the EU and ASEAN, SHARE Alumni impart a message affirming the people-to-people connectivity between the two regions.
SHARE Policy Dialogue 14 Highlights
Looking back on April, we can attest to a busy month for SHARE as we concluded the first quarter of the year and prepared for our initiatives over the remaining nine months of the Programme.
The beginning of April found us wrapping up the three-days of the 14th SHARE Policy Dialogue in partnership with the the ASEAN Secretariat, SEAMEO RIHED, UNESCO, the ASEAN University Network and other partners in Bangkok. Have a look back at some of the highlights here:
We were very pleased with the outcomes of the three days and particularly the contributions made by alumni of regional mobility programmes to the discussions. We would like to express our great thanks to them for their time and engagement.
You can read more about the conference in Bangkok in an article by Yojana Sharma, Asia Editor of University World News, on April 5th entitled 'Universities Need to Build Partnerships to Close SDG Gaps'
Towards the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022
In the final session of the last day of the Policy Dialogue the in-person and online participants came together to consolidate our learning from the three days and formulate a regional Consultation Report to be taken forward to the upcoming UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) taking place in Barcelona from the 18th - 20th May.
The 3rd World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) will bring together relevant stakeholders to define and prepare a roadmap for a new era of?higher education. This roadmap will respond to the challenges faced by humanity and the planet, with special attention to the?global disruption created by the COVID-19. It will look at both the higher education systems (norms, policies, structures, stakeholders) and institutions (universities, specialised entities, networks).
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UNESCO is organising the WHEC2022 to offer new knowledge, innovative ideas creative alliances, and produce an enlarged and reinvigorated coalition of the global higher education community in favour of the?2030 Agenda for Development?and beyond. The SHARE Programme will be represented at the conference by Team Leader, Darren McDermott.
VE/COIL Collaboration between Cambodia and the Philippines
In April we were pleased to receive a report on the successful completion of the first of a series of COIL collaborations developed and implemented by Phnom Penh International University (PPIU), Cambodia and De La Salle University (DLSU), Philippines under Batch 6 of the SHARE Virtual Exchange / COIL Scholarship Programme.?
Held between January 29th and February 25th, 123 students from the two universities participated in the three courses from Introduction to Asian Culture to Economics, and Introduction to Operating Systems. Over the course of a month, the students of each institution could engage in various cross-cultural learning activities with their counterparts.?
Students on the Introduction to Asian Culture course worked on a video blog (vlog) as their final assignment, entitled “My Country, My Identity”, to showcase their own cultures, beliefs, tradition, and interesting facts about their countries. Making these vlogs helped them realise that they are part of a wider?Southeast Asian culture that makes for a larger identity despite their national cultural?distinctions.
Launch of Batch 7 of the SHARE Scholarship
Following the Capacity Building Workshops led by SHARE Virtual Exchange Experts in March, the Programme kicked off its 7th batch of the SHARE Scholarship and the 2nd batch to be implemented through Virtual Exchange (VE) / Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) through information sessions held on April 14 and 18, 2022 with SHARE Scholarship Batch 7 COIL Awardees and SHARE Partner Universities.?
Building on the success of the inaugural Batch 6 of the SHARE VE / COIL Scholarship, which benefited over 250 student awardees, Batch 7 of the scholarship will involve approximately 600 student awardees from 9 COIL courses with 18 collaborating lecturers from eight SHARE partner universities.
SHARE VE / COIL experts Dr. Keiko Ikeda and Dr. Abdul Latiff Ahmad were also present in the sessions to give a brief refresher of VE / COIL to the participants.
The SHARE Programme is committed to supporting all of its partner universities and awardees benefit from this new modality of internationalisation for the region and encourages more universities to participate in the development of courses for Batch 8 of the SHARE Scholarship.
You can follow the progress of these activities, upcoming initiatives, and opportunities for engagement with the SHARE Programme by following our website and social media channels: