Conference, workshops, and public event

Migration, Bildung, Resilience

What kind of education do we need in an age of migration?

May 7-8 2024 in Rotterdam

How do we change education to meet the challenges of our time?

As geopolitical and environmental instability drive migration, how can education, pedagogics, andragogics, and bildung contribute to social resilience and mutual understanding in Europe?

People of many cultural and religious backgrounds need to live together and form resilient societies, rather than fall into (violent) conflict, populism, and other threats to democracy.

Under these circumstances, what does it mean to be a people?

How can our rich educational tradition and bildung contribute to social peace, strengthening democracy, and fruitful global interconnectedness?

And how do we create a European community of educators who can change education, promote bildung, and reach politicians with the message?

Join the European Bildung Day and the European Bildung Network
Let’s change education in Europe!

Tuesday, May 7

8:30 Coffee is served

09:00-12:00 Pre-conference workshops

Papers and workshops

12:00-13:00 Light lunch

13:00-17:00 Main conference
Keynotes, culture, and discussions
Presentation of the European Bildung Manifesto (if you would like to join the online final editing of the Manifesto, read more here)

19:00 Food court dinner
TBA, individual payment

Wednesday, May 8

8:30 Coffee is served

9:00-12:00 Three tracks

Establishing a folk high school in Rotterdam – at the venue
Immigration and bildung: educational needs
What is a people? Bildung and collective meaning-making

13:30-15:30 Bildung, Resilience, Migration
Public event at the Blue City
Launch of the European Bildung Manifesto

18:00-22:00 Conference dinner
Wine and snacks from 17:30

Thursday, May 9: Europe Day

Christian holiday: Ascension Day For those who are interested, we will organize a day trip to Leiden and find a nice place for lunch.

Tickets:

Full Conference Ticket: € 269

Public event: € 19

One-day participation is also available; click Buy Ticket to see all options
Prices do not include accommodation.

Deadline for conference sign-up: Tuesday April 23 at 12:00 noon CET
If you have had problems signing up, please email us at

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Booking provided by Nordic Bildung

Program Tuesday May 7

9:00-11:50 Pre-Conference: Papers

Design Impact Transitions Platform (DIT), 2nd Floor Q-Building
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam

To read about the speakers and their presentations, click on the pictures

Erasmus University

Papers DIT 1

9:00-9:50 Bildung and migrant communities: towards more inclusive folk high schools

Eno-obong Etim, the Netherlands
Tessa Dool, the Netherlands

11:00-11:50 Head, Heart, and Hands; Bildung in Primary Schools

Jos van den Broek, the Netherlands

Papers DIT 2

9:00-9:50 Reclaiming the Commonity

Kåre Wangel, Denmark
Read the article:
https://medium.com/bildung/reclaiming-the-commonity-61614f6a3b62

10:00-10:50 Sociocratic inspiration for co-creating schools

Armin Sieber, Switzerland
Gnanasekar Danapal, India
Lisa Praeg, Austria

11:00-11:50 Decentralized Citizenships, Education Opportunities, and Migration

Vladan Lausevic, Sweden & Bosnia

Facilitator
Józefa Fawcett , UK

Lunch

12:00-13:00

European Bildung Day: Main Conference

13:00-17:00

Erasmus Center for Entrepreneurship, ECE room, Ground floor Q-building
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam

Official Opening

Welcome to European Bildung Day

Event host: Tim Logan, podcaster @Future Learning Design, France & UK

Bildung, Resilience, Migration; European Bildung Day 2024

Lene Rachel Andersen, author, futurist, and bildung philosopher, Denmark

Why did we come here for this topic?

What would you like to get out of European Bildung Day 2024?
How can you contribute to that?

Bildung, Resilience, Migration

A mosaic of EBD2024 topics

Resilience: When are societies robust?

Irena Pranskevičiūtė, researcher Institute of Labour and Social Research of the Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Lithuania

Migration: Social norms and demographics; new research from World Values Survey

Bi Puranen, Secretary General of the World Values Survey, Sweden

Bildung and migration: Educational needs

Elena Tochillina, leadership and marketing consultant, Ukraine

14:30-14:50 Break

Bildung and Peoplehood

Interactive panel debate

How the war has affected the Ukrainian sense of peoplehood

Mihail Krikunov, Dean of the Kyiv Business School, Ukraine

What is a people, and what role does music play?

Kjetil Aamann, conductor, musician, lecturer, Norway

What it means to be human

Speaker TBA

15:40-15:50 Break

To bildung or not to bildung:
How to teach the teachers?

Interactive panel debate

Bildung in formal teachers’ education

Jesper Garsdal, Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor, VIA University College, Denmark

Worldviews, Virtues, Ethical and Educational Leadership, and Bildung

Bert Meeuwsen, Principal Lecturer, Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands

Music in custody and freedom

Audun Reithaug, project leader, Music in custody and liberty, Norway

Discussion: What is the situation like in your country and how to solve it?

European Bildung Manifesto

Concluding Day 1

Flexible Food Court Dinner

From 19:00

Foodhallen, Wilhelminakade 58, 3072 AR Rotterdam
https://foodhallen.nl/

You’ll get a European Bildung Day 2024 badge, your spouse will get one too, and then we’ll go to the famous Rotterdam food court, you’ll buy the food and drinks you want, and whenever you run into somebody else with the badge, you can network and discuss.

And when everybody else sees us with the same badge, they may ask what bildung is and you get a chance to do a bit of PR for bildung (and Europe).

The pre-conference food court dinner in Vilnius in 2023 was a great success, and we’d like to repeat it!

Program Wednesday May 8

Three parallel tracks 9:00-12:00

DIT 1, 2nd Floor Q-Building
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50

Migration and Bildung

9:00-10:20
Bildung in vocational education

Becoming human; Learning practices in Bildung in Education at Fontys Hogescholen

Inge van de Vorst, Fontys, the Netherlands
Claudia van Werkhoven, Fontys, the Netherlands

Career development for students in Norway

Kjell Helge Kleppestø, education advisor, Norway

Employee bildung seen from an employer’s perspective

Laurens van de Vijver, CEO, the Netherlands

Discussion

10:20-10:40
Coffee Break

10:40-12:00
Bildung in the Netherlands

De Bildung Academie

Michiel Tolman, founder & director De Bildung Academie, the Netherlands

You’re Never Done: Towards bildung in higher education

Kees Spijker, headmaster, the Netherlands

Bildung and teachers

Martijn Derksen, Creative / Edu-tainment Professional at Fontys University, the Netherlands

Discussion

DIT 2, 2nd Floor Q-Building
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50

What is a People?

9:00-10:20
Collective meaning-making

Circles of Belonging

Lene Rachel Andersen, author, futurist, and bildung philosopher, Denmark

Reflections regarding Grundtvig’s idea of peoplehood

Jesper Garsdal, Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor, VIA University College, Denmark

How to talk about nationalism and love of nation

Speaker TBA

Discussion

10:20-10:40
Coffee Break

10:40-12:00
Migration and bildung

What Denmark should have done; Input from a Ukrainian refugee

Elena Tochillina, leadership and marketing consultant, Ukraine

Conflicting Values, the Swedish Experience; How bildung improves migrant transition

Bi Puranen, Secretary General of the World Values Survey, Sweden

Migration, mobility, and bildung

Peter Scholten, professor, the Netherlands

Discussion

At the school
Street name
Postal code

Starting a folk high school in Rotterdam

9:00-10:20

Connecting bildung with sustainability

Ginie Servant-Miklos, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Netherlands & France

Designing for resilience

Rutger Engels, Professor in Developmental Psychopathology, the Netherlands

Teacher resilience in practice: An Experimental Pedagogics project

Martijn van Ginneken, Netherlands
Lyuba Nicheva, Bulgaria,
Louiza Reysen, Germany

Discussion

10:20-10:40
Coffee Break

10:40-12:00
Bildung in the Netherlands

Meet some of the students
and design your own curriculum
Interactive workshop

Commute and Lunch Break

12:00-13:30

Public Event at the Blue City

13:30-15:30

Blue City, Maasboulevard 100, 3063 NS Rotterdam
https://bluecity.nl/en

Tickets: 19 Euro
The event is included in the conference fee

Welcome to European Bildung Day

Event host: Tim Logan, podcaster @Future Learning Design, France & UK

What is bildung, and why do we need it now?

Lene Rachel Andersen, author, futurist, and bildung philosopher, Denmark

How the war in Ukraine has changed the sense of peoplehood

Mihail Krikunov, Dean of the Kyiv Business School, Ukraine

Mental resilience during air raids; a bildung perspective

Elena Tochillina, leadership and marketing consultant, Ukraine

The time for bildung in the Netherlands is now

Ginie Servant-Miklos, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Netherlands & France

Discussion

Official launch of the European Bildung Manifesto

Take me to the page with the afternoon public event only

European Bildung Day Dinner
at Blue City

17:30 a well-deserved glass of wine and some snacks

18:00-22:00 Dinner

Delicous 3 course menu

and the best company in Europe!

Thursday May 9, Europe Day

Daytrip to Leiden

Just half an hour by train from Rotterdam is beautiful Leiden
Join this day trip and enjoy some bildung and a nice lunch!

Sign-up fee 1 Euro, more info later…

The Netherlands’ ‘best-kept secret’ Leiden houses the nation’s oldest university, dating from 1575.

Even in 2024, Leiden-born Rembrandt should be able to find his way in the old, canal-rich inner city, the second largest after Amsterdam.

‘Little Amsterdam’, located on the banks of the Old Rhine, houses four national museums.

Tickets:

Full Conference Ticket: € 269

Public event: € 19

One-day participation is also available; click Buy Ticket to see all options
Prices do not include accommodation.

Buy ticket now

Booking provided by Nordic Bildung

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Migration is increasing, we need good education more than ever, and the world is 44 million teachers short; read the article: https://medium.com/bildung/migration-bildung-resilience-cc54c3de0244