The Conference Programme

The List of Participants

The Conference Final Appeal

The Students Document in English

The Students Document in Italian

Trieste, 29th April 2010  - An appeal to European, national and regional governors to consider education as a fundamental force to unite peoples in the Adriatic Area was launched from Trieste by representatives of educational institutions and authorities, by headmasters, teachers and students during a conference organized by UWC Adriatic and the Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia held in Trieste on 29th April at the Hotel Savoia. The event was the concluding conference of the PACE project (Project Agency Cooperation Education) coordinated by UWC Adriatic under the Interreg/Cards/Phare IIIA Cross-border Adriatic 2000-2006 program and involving Ministries of Education, School Authorities, Schools, Universities and NGOs in Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Read more.

Visit the new website of our partner in Uganda, Ambrose Kikuuba.

Ambrose Kibuuka has been working with educationists and students at variuos levels, helping them to develop tools and insights for thinking outside-the-box, as a means of improving the quality of educational outcomes. It is clear that most educational practices are focused on producing examination passers, without necessarilly meeting the personal empowerment needs of the learners. The insights Ambrose raises in his articles and book  capture the imagination of African and no African teachers and students.

The articles published in his website will help individual teachers and educational institutions to explore innovative ways of providing authentic education.

On his article Teaching Deep without Teaching Hard, Ambrose explores learner-centered teaching methods and calls them “Teaching Deep” as opposed to Teaching Hard, which he describes as “reducing human beings to merely rote-learning creatures”!

Within the United World College Programme for school support in Uganda, a teachers’ Professional Development  Seminar was organised in the Good Samaritan Primary School in Nasuuti, Mukono town. The Seminar was conducted by  Ambrose Kibuuka Mukiibi, a brilliant ugandan trainer and human development consultant.  Ambrose  is one of the founders of Edirisa, the United World College of the Adriatic’s main partner organisation for education projects in Uganda.  A full report of the Seminar will be published soon.

MORE PICTURES OF THE SEMINAR..

The article can be downloaded HERE.

The second International Conference of the Agency for Cooperation in Secondary Education was held on Saturday, 29 November 2008 at the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino. It was a consultative meeting with more than 70 teachers, directors and delegates from different institutions in Italy, Slovenia and Austria. They discussed a new European project which, if approved, will lead to the creation of a permanent “laboratory” that will identify, experiment with and diffuse techniques for cross border integration in the field of secondary education. This laboratory could start its activities from January 2010. Often when you try to learn about others you find yourself in a sort of Labyrinth. Our project will help students and teachers to find their way out of their labyrinth to an integrated cross border community.

The Conference opening speeches were made by ambassador Gianfranco Facco Bonetti, President of the United World College of the Adriatic and by professor Ugo Panetta, representative of the Italian Ministry of Education in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. One of the most important elements that emerged from the Conference was proposed by the students themselves (Slovenian and Italian students from the cross border areas). They would like to introduce a cross border curriculum with bilingual language courses, conflict resolution techniques, cross border arts and cultures and a focus on the skills and capacities to identify sources of knowledge. They also proposed the creation of a web site to advertise in Italian and Slovene all the events and opportunities for social networking which are already happening in the cross border area.

The participants list can be dowloaded HERE.

The Conference, which will take place in the outstanding location of Duino (Trieste, Italy) on the 25^th November  2008, will be an opportunity for professional development of teachers across countries, encouraging the pooling of ideas and collaboration across borders for the benefit of institutional representatives, teachers and students and  aiming at a permanent laboratory for integration among secondary education and cultural institutions of the cross border area between Slovenia, Italy and Austria.

Policy makers at institutional level, heads of schools, teacher, student and media representatives from Italy, Austria and Slovenia have been invited to the event.

Please find attached the PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE and the REGISTRATION FORM

Read the article HERE on page 7.

This short video is a compelling presentation of the PACE Project and of its results. It has subtitles in English and Italian. It was published over the summer by our great multimedia consultant Max Mucchiut.