Monday 2nd of November 2020 14-16 CEST
The roundtable theme is 'Learning from crises'. Related to the ongoing Covid-19 but also taking into account other former and potential future crises of different types and magnitude, the workshop roundtable discusses the issue from the perspective of Societal Safety and Security Higher Education.
- Do our study programmes provide a useful coverage for preparing the students to deal with the crises of the current world?
- Do we take into account enough the consequences of globalisation, the increasingly transboundary nature of crises, their complexity in terms of their causes and impact, the need for interdisciplinary knowledge that is essential in crisis management?
- Does our education provide the students with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to understand and do research on the current crises?
- What about practice, do the study programmes prepare for the ‘real world’, that is, practical work at the level of civil society, national and local public administrations, private companies and critical infrastructure, international organisations, and so forth?
- All in all, what is the state-of-the-art of the current education in our field and how could it be enhanced?
Tuesday 3rd of November 2020, 13:00-15:00 CEST (online, open to invitees)
This is a side-event related to the networking project Societal Security collaboration in research and education. The main idea of the project is to inspire bottom up cross-border cooperation between researchers from the Nordic Countries and Russia. The main tool for enhancing this cooperation is the creation of self-organised voluntary groups of two or more researchers from different countries that share a research interest and will produce articles or other publications together. In the current online meeting, we will discuss some of the research already done or in progress.