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Conference Timetable (schedule in Polish local time, UTC +1)
11:30 - 12:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Welcome by Conveners of BGL: Adult Learning and Communities ESREA Network
12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Session
Introduction by Ewa Kurantowicz
Key-Speech Professor Ewa Bińczyk
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
How to Educate on Constructive Imagination in the Anthropocene?
13:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30
Poster Session
Joachim Bröcher
Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
Transformative Community Projects in Rural Areas
Alexander Kolling, Marie Rathmann
Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany
Adult Education and High-Performance Computing
Ewa Kurantowicz, Paweł Rudnicki
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Critical Sustainable Development Learning
Nele Rathke
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences and Free University Berlin, Germany
Outreaching Political Adult Education
14:30 - 16:30
Session 1
Moderator: Rob Evans
Amanda São Vicente, Liliana Paulos, Carla Vilhena, António Fragoso
CEAD, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Education for Sustainable Development
Discussant: Joachim Bröcher
Sylwester Zagulski
University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Community Education and Civic Engagement
Discussant: Nele Rathke
Nicoletta Tomei, Gianluca Amatori
Università Europea di Roma, Italy
Sustainable Development in Micro-insular Contexts
Discussant: Eleni Papaioannou
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 - 19:00
Session 2
Moderator: Adrianna Nizińska
Anke Grotlüschen, Karola Cafantaris, Klaus Buddeberg
University of Hamburg, Germany
Critical Thinking of Adult Education Staff
Discussant: Alicja Szostkiewicz
Clotilde Lechuga-Jiménez, Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado, Leticia-Concepción Velasco-Martínez, Juan-Jesús Martín-Jaime
University of Malaga, Spain
Development of Transversal Competencies in HE
Discussant: Robert Opora
Alan Bainbridge
Queen Margaret University, UK
Wilding Higher Education
Discussant: Rob Evans
Susmita Mondal, Jugantar Mishra
Raiganj B. Ed College, India
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Higher Education
Discussant: Tomasz Zarębski
19:00 - 21:00
Welcome Reception
9:00 - 11:00
Session 3
Moderator: Paweł Rudnicki
Rob Evans
formerly OVGU Magdeburg, Germany
Reflections on Sustainability in Lives and Work
Discussant: Francesca Loberto
Eleni Papaioannou
Open University of Cyprus
Women’s Educational Trajectories
Discussant: Cindy Hanson
Tomasz Zarębski, Karolina Reinhard
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Rortyan Anti-anti Ethnocentrism
Discussant: Katja Lihtenvalner
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30
Session 4
Moderator: Antonio Fragoso
Katja Lihtenvalner
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Radical Education and Critical Consciousness
Discussant: Sylwester Zagulski
Cindy Hanson
University of Regina, Canada
Autoethnographic Journey Toward Sustainable Futures
Discussant: Alan Bainbridge
Margaret Nugent
Maynooth University, Ireland
Development Education's Role in the Food Industry
Discussant: Nicoletta Tomei
13:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00
Session 5
Moderator: Dimitrios Papadopoulos
Katarzyna Gawlicz
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Teaching about Climate and Environmental Crisis
Discussant: Anke Grotlüschen
Vít Dočekal, Miroslav Dopita
Palacký University Olomouc Czechia
Jana Ter-Akopow Čemusová
University of New York in Prague, Czechia
Barbara Kappler, Christopher J. Johnstone
University of Minnesota, US
Professional Learning through Collaborative Communities
Discussant: Katarzyna Smulska
Robert Opora
Gdansk University, Poland
Critical Thinking in Preschool Education
Discussant: Clotilde Lechuga-Jiménez
9:00 - 11:00
Session 6
Moderator: Amanda São Vicente
Katarzyna Smulska, Alicja Szostkiewicz
WSB Merito University Torun, Poland
Sustainability in Informal Adult Learning
Discussant: Vít Dočekal
Francesca Loberto
University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Empowering Active Aging
Discussant: Ewa Kurantowicz
Dimitrios Papadopoulos
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Adrianna Nizińska
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Swedish Local Actors in Education for Sustainable Development
Discussant: Margaret Nugent
11:00 - 12:00
Closing Session and Next Steps
Moderators: Rob Evans & Ewa Kurantowicz