Global Village Festival: PUSH YOUR BOUNDARIES!
During the Global Village Festival, the Saxion community comes together to celebrate the internationalisation, interdisciplinary collaborations and intercultural skills of our students, employees and regional and international relations. Do you want to connect with international talent and professionals? Want to get some useful tools to push your professional boundaries? Then come to Deventer, Apeldoorn or Enschede from Monday, 5 February to Thursday, 8 February for a variety of informative workshops and other fun activities.
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Register here!Push your boundaries!
We live in an increasingly globally connected world, where internationalisation, interculturalism and interdisciplinary approaches are no longer trends, but are becoming a necessity. In a society where borders are becoming increasingly blurred, it is time to take a hard look at those borders through our theme: push your boundaries! Whether it's national borders, or personal and professional boundaries, they will all be explored during the week.
The Global Village Festival brings together Saxion employees, students, our international partners and the international projects we are so proud of. Here we showcase our approach to interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration. What exactly do we do? What do we think works best? And where do we see opportunities for improvement? Most importantly, not only do we want to share our methods, but we are also eager to learn from our partners. This makes it a great opportunity for mutual growth and together improving education as we know it step by step.
Our Keynote, Emma Agricola on Pushing Boundaries: Intergenerational, Interdisciplinary, and Intercultural
What generations are we currently living and working with? What characterises these generations? And how can we sustainably connect these generations across disciplines and cultures? That's what the Global Village Festival kickoff will be about. Generation expert and Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Emma Agricola of INCLUSYOUNG will, for 1.5 hours, address tantalising insights and concrete tools around this, so you can push your boundaries in a structural and inclusive way.
The Global Campfire Talks
For this second edition of the Global Village Festival, we are introducing an activity we are very proud of, namely the Global Campfire Talks!
During the Global Campfire Talks, our employees and students will share their personal life stories, and how these demonstrate the importance of internationalisation, intercultural and interdisciplinary skills. These stories often touch on current themes in their lives, leading our speakers to delve deeply into personal experiences, stepping out of their comfort zones to share with you. That's why we believe it's truly worthwhile for every employee, partner, or even student to join us.
This event will be a central feature of the Global Village programme, as the themes addressed here form the foundation of the Global Village Festival and the exploration that we will conduct together.
The festival for partners and employees
The festival offers various activities for (inter)national partners and Saxion colleagues. Think of a relevant keynote speaker, inspiring Campfire session and an engaging panel discussion on interdisciplinary and international cooperation, creative workshops and valuable networking moments.
The festival for students
We also have an interesting programme in store for students. We want to prepare you as a student optimally for the (inter)national job market. This week is your chance to develop valuable skills, such as:
- kickstarting your (inter)national career;
- getting a head start on your competition;
- overcoming personal and professional challenges with the help of practical tools.
Programme
| Time | Title | Description |
| 14.15 - 16.15 | Key Note Push your boundaries: intergenerational, interdisciplinary and intercultural Emma Agricola (INCLUSYOUNG) For partners, employees and students | What generations are we currently living and working with? What characterises these generations? And how can we sustainably connect these generations across disciplines and cultures? That's what the Global Village Festival kickoff will be about. Generation expert and Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Emma Agricola of INCLUSYOUNG will, for 1.5 hours, address tantalising insights and concrete tools around this, so you can push your boundaries in a structural and inclusive way. |
| Time | Title | Description |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Community building with the Going app Inge Doeve (Saxion UAS) For partners and employees | When questioning international students about the most challenging aspect of studying abroad, they will most likely answer: that they are by their own and have no inner circle or friends to fall back on. Join this workshop, where we’ll demonstrate you how we decrease the feeling of loneliness, enhance student success and increase stay rate through community building by Goin’. A journey which starts already in their home country and continue to thrive throughout their studies. |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Working with your international skill set Puck Dekker, Lucija Cunovic, Judith Ababio, Alise Scerbinina, Florine Snethlage (Nuffic/WilWeg) For students | Congratulations, you have been abroad and can now call yourself a global citizen. But what next? There are many benefits to international experience. Are you able to recognise your unique international skill set and do you know how to benefit from this after your adventures abroad? E.g. when applying for a job? In this workshop we help you become aware of your abilities and use your skills for your professional gain, using our international skill set model, which you can personalise. You will leave with all the knowledge you had before, but with a lot more awareness of it. |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Intercultural Awareness for the workplace Caroline Haafkens (Saxion UAS) For students | • We'll take a look at the layers of culture and how they influence your behaviour. • What are the influences of culture on 'being or doing'? • Intercultural Sensitivity – understanding the DIMS (The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity) |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Who are you within interdisciplinary groups? Danique van den Bergh (EUDRES) For partners and employees | During this session you will get to know yourself better, with the result that you will be able to work better together in interdisciplinary teams or organisations! During this workshop, you will discover who you are within interdisciplinary groups! Are you the pilot who sets the course, or the action-oriented doer who knows how to get things done? Together we will discover and explore the strengths of each role. How to get the most out of your own role but also out of the roles of others in your team. You’ll get further working together. Your skills are not individual but shared. |
| 13.30 - 17.00 | Saxion Campfire Talks Fleur Bloemendaal, Tim Roosen & Henny Oude Maatman (Saxion UAS), Sasha Sukhinich (student Saxion UAS) For partners and employees | During the Global Campfire Talks, our employees and students will share their personal life stories, and how these demonstrate the importance of internationalisation, intercultural and interdisciplinary skills. These stories often touch on current themes in their lives, leading our speakers to delve deeply into personal experiences, stepping out of their comfort zones to share with you. That's why we believe it's truly worthwhile for every employee, partner, or even student to join us. |
| Time | Title | Description |
| Morning | Excursion to the Center for Security and Digitalisation / Police Academy in Apeldoorn For partners | Our society is digitising at a rapid pace. This produces wonderful innovations, from internet banking to digital detection methods. At the same time, it brings major risks: hackers take down systems and criminals steal sensitive data. In today's society, solving issues around digitalisation and security is therefore a top priority. In the Center for Security and Digitalisation, knowledge institutions, companies and the government join forces to tackle these issues. Saxion is also involved in this great example of interdisciplinary collaboration. |
| 14.30 - 16.30 | Teaching in international classroom Lara Bold (Saxion UAS), location Deventer For partners and employees | Tips, tricks and more for teaching in the international classroom. Get some ideas for practical tools you can use to improve teaching / mentoring in a multicultural/multilingual classroom. Questions about subject jargon, humor, classroom English, inclusive language, activating student participation are welcome. |
| 14.30 - 16.30 | AI: How to successfully prompt, and why you should know Anouk Hölzken (Saxion UAS), location Deventer For partners, employees and students | Prompt Engineering! Or in other words, how do you write a good prompt for ChatGPT? How do you avoid the concept of 'garbage in - garbage out'? And how can you utilise ChatGPT as a tool for your work or studies? In this interactive workshop, we will provide answers to these questions. |
| Time | Title | Description |
| 10.00 - 15.00 (lunchbreak from 12.00- 13.00) | With different eyes: VR-experience: social exclusion in the workplace (Session 1: Dutch only, Session 2: English subtitled) + Wrap up discussion based on the VR-experience (English) Critical Mass For partners and employees | Join the Virtual Reality session 'With Different Eyes', organized by Saxion Diversity Office and Critical Mass. In the morning session our VR learning experiences offers an effective way to change behavior by allowing you to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.” You can learn what it is like to experience discrimination or inappropriate behavior, and identify social exclusion when you see it. After lunch we invite all participants to continue in English and discuss diversity, exclusion and discrimination in an interactive way. Learn how to make blind spots visible and how to conduct difficult conversations. Understand what roles and action perspectives you as a bystander have in situations of social exclusion. |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Internationalisation in Education Marleen van Grunsven, Sander Kamphuis, Patrick van Laarhoven (Saxion UAS) For partners and employees | Discover how to prepare students for an increasingly globalised world, by providing them with opportunities to develop intercultural competencies in your curriculum, incorporating learning activities and projects with an international dimension. Together, we explore new teaching methods, approaches, and pedagogical strategies to create an inclusive and internationally oriented learning environment. There will be speakers with practical experience and opportunities for exchange. |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | How to use ChatGPT and AI in Education and assessment? Allard Strijker (Saxion UAS) For partners and employees | With the introduction of ChatGPT in Education we see a broad range of future possibilities and challenges. In this interactive session we will focus on what to expect of AI and show examples of use and new developments. In addition to this we show how Saxion intents to use AI in Education and Assessment |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Intercultural sensitivity in an educational context Mijke Hartendorp (Saxion UAS) & Dave Thomas (Solent University) For partners and employees | The Intercultural Sensitivity in an Educational Context workshop is designed to raise awareness of culturally sensitive curricula and its effect on students’ educational experiences. Throughout the workshop, we will support educators to develop the skills, agency, knowledge and understanding to effect curricula changes to make them more culturally sensitive. |
Meet the team
"I have been working at Saxion for 2 years now. I started here at the Corporate Traineeship, where I first came into contact with interdisciplinary education and international partnerships. That turned out to be my main interest. That is why I recently started working as a project coordinator for international variants of interdisciplinary education. Global Village is a fantastic part of that."
Marjolein Oudejans
Coordinator Global Village Festival
"I have been working for the Event Team at Saxion OSS for two years now. A fun and challenging job, where organising the Global Village Festival is one of the main events. A great opportunity to show our students, employees and (inter)national relations how internationalisation and interdisciplinary collaborations are integrated within Saxion!"
“I am the Diversity Officer of Saxion. My main task is to provides strategic direction for diversity, equity and inclusion policies and education initiatives.” William is also part of the Saxion International Office, implementing international interdisciplinary projects and partnerships. “My contribution is to the GVF-programme is to ensure that the participants experience the Global Village concept of meeting, celebrating, working and having fun together.”
I am an exchange coordinator at the School of Applied Psychology and Human Resource Management at Saxion University. In my job, I help our students choose an exchange period abroad with a partner university. From the partner university, I supervise incoming students from partner universities, who are following a minor program at Saxion. The Global Village Festival is a great event to connect colleagues from partner universities of Saxion with our teachers and our students, sharing knowledge and most importantly getting to know each other.
- Location
Saxion Deventer, Handelskade 75, Deventer
- Date and time
5 February 2024 - 08:00 until 8 February 2024 - 16:00