Day 3: 26 May 2023
08:30 - 09:00: Registration and Coffee
09:00 - 10:30 Transnational Skill Partnerships – Country of origin perspectives
(Chair: Prof. Dr. Simone Emmert, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany)
| Time | Subject | Speaker | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Pathways of Success in Global Skill Partnerships The Case of the Heimerer College in Kosovo | Shege Bahtiri & Dr. Petrit Beqiri, ISEE-HSP, Institute of Southeast Europe for Health and Social Policy, Kosovo / Prof. Dr. Michael Sauer, Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany | confirmed (online) |
| 09:30-10:00 | Skills Partnerships between Germany and Vietnam – Stakeholder perceptions on costs, benefits, the role of skills development, partnership and sustainability | Dr. Katrin Marchand, UNU-Merit, Maastricht University, Netherlands & Ngo Quynh An, Faculty of Human Resource Economics and Management, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam & Andreas Meyn, Universität des Saarlandes & Prof. Dr. Michael Sauer, Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany | confirmed |
| 10:00-10:30 | Brain drain and its impact on access to adequate and quality services from key sectors by Nigerians | Dr. Ngozi E. Chukwu & Prof. Dr. Uzoma U. Okoye & Mary Tawakalitu Olaitan, Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria | confirmed |
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Urban and Critical Social Work Perspectives on Migration
(Chair: Prof. Dr. Simone Emmert, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Nuremberg, Germany, tbc)
| Time | Subject | Speaker | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-11:30 | Urban Contestation in New Migrant Settings: Towards Resilience through Fluid Approaches | Prof. Dr. Maram Tawil & Prof. Dipl.Ing. Christa Reicher & Fabio Bayro Kaiser, Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism, RWTH, Aachen, Germany | confirmed |
| 11:30-12:00 | Media Representation of Syrian Refugees in Amman and Salt: Critical Analysis from Social Work Perspective | Buthainah Al Shdeifat, German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan | confirmed (online) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Critical Social Work and Unaccompanied Refugee Minors' Social Inclusion: An Example of Critical Best Practice | Dr. Aikaterini Oikonomou, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece & Prof. Agapi Kandylaki, Department of Social Work, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece | confirmed (online) |
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 EU Framework for Migration and Integration
(Chair Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany, tbc)
| Time | Subject | Speaker | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30-14:00 | EU Migration Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean: Securitization and Externalization | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anja Zorob, Birzeit University, Palestine | confimed |
| 14:00-14:30 | State of Play of Integration in EU-Law | Dr. Réka Friedery, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary | confirmed |
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 17:15 Transnational Education and Migration
(Chair: Jun. Prof. Dr. Annette Witherspoon, Friedensau Adventist University, Friedensau, Germany, tbc)
| Time | Subject | Speaker | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00-15:20 | Transnational Skill Partnerships: Can Joint Mobility Projects at Universities Promote Safe Transitions to Refugees? The Experience of Jordanian Social Work Students | Prof. Dr. Sahar Al-Makhamreh & Heba Sarhan, Department of Social Work, German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan & Asem Mohammad Al-Bakkar & Dr. Jehad Ali Al-Saideh & Farah Nusser & Farah Khalaf & Lynn Hamdy, Department of Social Work, Al-Balqa Applied University, Balqa, Jordan & Omar Taweh, M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA | confirmed |
| 15:20-15:40 | Fostering Orderly Migration through Transnational Educational Partnerships: The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) Experience | Dr. Ngozi E. Chukwu & Prof. Dr. Uzoma U. Okoye & Mary Olaitan, Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria | confirmed |
| 15:40-16:00 | Immigration and Vocational Education across Borders | Prof. Dr. Philip Anderson, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany | confirmed |
| 16:00-16:20 | Nurturing Transnational Skill Partnerships: An Example of Teaching Social & Impact Entrepreneurship in a Diverse International Surrounding | Prof. Dr. Harald Bolsinger, Faculty of Business Sciences, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany | confirmed |
| 16:20-16:40 | Towards Building-up the HEI of the Future versus the Future of HEI: How Transnational Cooperation Enables FORTHEM European Alliance | Dr. Delia Stefenel & Anca Sims, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania | confirmed |
| 16:40-17:15 | Panel Discussion: Transnational Education and Migration | Prof. Dr. Sahar Al-Makhamreh, Department of Social Work, German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan Dr. Ngozi E. Chukwu, Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Prof. Dr. Michael Sauer, University of Applied Siences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany Prof. Dr. Harald Bolsinger, Faculty of Business Sciences, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany Dr. Delia Stefenel, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania |
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17:15 - 17:30 Final Discussion and Closing Ceremony
(Moderation: Prof. Dr. Simone Emmert, LL.M.Eur., Nuremburg Institute of Technology, Germany & Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany)