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The Open Society University Network (OSUN) is a new global network that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across geographic and demographic boundaries, promotes civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expands access of underserved communities to higher education.

OSUN CONNECTED AND BLENDED LEARNING TOOLKIT

Placing Liberal Arts Pedagogies Front and Center

The OSUN Connected and Blended Learning Toolkit, developed by the Center for Learning in Practice (CLiP) at the Carey Institute for Global Good in collaboration with the Open Society University Network and Bard College, is a living document that is open and accessible to faculty across the network, offering support for connected and blended course development.

Central European University, Vienna.

Mission

• Foster critical thinking, open intellectual inquiry, and fact-based research to strengthen foundations of open society amid authoritarian resurgence
• Educate students to address tomorrow’s global challenges by getting to know other societies from the inside
• Expand access to higher education at a time of growing inequities
• Counteract polarization by promoting global research collaboration and educating students to examine issues from different perspectives and advance reasoned arguments
• Bolster efforts by universities in challenging environments to build their own capacity through global partnerships to make greater contributions to their societies

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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  VIDEO: Civil Society and Social Movements

  A Conversation with Patrick Gaspard
  July 1, 9:00 am EDT
  On July 1, The Open Society University Network (OSUN) hosted a candid dialogue with Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations. Moderated by Jonathan Becker, vice-chancellor of OSUN, the discussion was cosponsored by OSUN and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
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  Announcing COV-AID

  Engaging Across Global Networks
  

  The Open Society University Network, in partnership with the Talloires Network, announces the launch of COV-AID: Communities of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence, to support universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. COV-AID seeks to collect and share stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, document practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere, provide uplifting content, and strengthen public support for engaged universities.
  
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  Tomorrow Is Now:
  The Eleanor Roosevelt Conferences

  The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with the COV-AID Project sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.

  Join us for the Tomorrow Is Now virtual conference series via live Zoom sessions where speakers from around the world will reflect on the relevance of Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy during the pandemic. View Schedule
  
  WATCH THE SERIES
  

The first episode features Bard College President and OSUN Chancellor Leon Botstein, Universidad Veracruzana Rectora and Talloires Network Vice Chair Sara Ladrón de Guevara, and Tufts University President and Talloires Network Chair Anthony P. Monaco.

Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope

A Webinar Series Sponsored by Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network

This series aims to serve as a beacon of light, providing uplifting content and strengthening public support for universities. It features leaders in higher education from around the world speaking about ways their institutions are responding to the current crisis and offering strategies that can be adopted by others.

OSUN STRUCTURE

FOUNDING MEMBERS

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  BARD COLLEGE

  (United States)
  

  Bard College, founded in 1860, is highly regarded for its excellence in liberal arts and sciences teaching and its innovations in bringing high-quality education to underserved communities. Bard is a leader in forging international partnerships and integrating civic engagement and the arts across its undergraduate and graduate programs.
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  CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

  (Austria)
  

  The Central European University (CEU) is a graduate institution founded in 1991. Its mission is to promote open societies and democracy through advanced research and research-based teaching, primarily in the social sciences and humanities.
  
  

EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS

Institutions Participating in First-Phase OSUN Projects*

• COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

  Al-Quds University/Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
  American University of Bulgaria
  American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
  Arizona State University (Unites States)
  Ashesi University (Ghana)
  Bard College Berlin (Germany)
  Birkbeck: University of London (United Kingdom)
  BRAC University (Bangladesh)
  European Humanities University (Lithuania)
  Princeton University: Global History Lab (United States)
  Sciences Po in Paris (France)
  SOAS University of London (United Kingdom)
  Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
• RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND
  EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (United States)
  Chatham House (United Kingdom)
  Institute for New Economic Thinking (United States and United Kingdom)
  Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria)
  Open Society Archives (Hungary)
  Rift Valley Institute (Kenya)
  The Talloires Network (United States)
  
  
  *OSUN is actively in discussions with other potential partners that share its principles and academic ambition.

PHILANTHROPIC PARTNER

OSUN builds on the accomplishments of several major initiatives in higher education supported by the Open Society Foundations (OSF). In the 1990s, OSF’s Higher Education Support Program (HESP) effectively served as a Marshall Plan for higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. CEU, founded in 1991, became a unique model in graduate education, combining cutting-edge research and research-based teaching with a focused social mission.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Network Debate with students from international partner institutions.

Network Courses

Challenging Students to Examine the Ideas and Practices of Being a Global Citizen in the 21st Century
OSUN Network Courses are virtual international exchanges that unite students and faculty from several universities located in different parts of the world in the classroom, sharing faculty and conducting joint research projects in which people from many universities collaborate.

Get Engaged Conference, Budapest. Photo by Zarlasht Sarmast

Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Empowering Young Leaders of Change
Student leaders from an international network of institutions gather every spring for a five-day conference at Central European University's campus in Budapest, Hungary. The Get Engaged Conference gives students the opportunity to develop community leadership skills and collaborate on solutions to local and global challenges.

OSUN Facts

related co-curricula entrepreneurial rebellion - 

RebelBase platform to connect social enterprise cohorts at universities in Dhaka, Bishkek, Mataró, Jerusalem, and the Hudson Valley. Bard MBA Entrepreneurship Professor Alejandro Crawford is the cofounder and CEO of RebelBase, which teaches entrepreneurial thinking as a form of basic literacy,

Open Green Curriculum Builders

Out of Bard-Ceu: solve climate by 2030 - bard coord eban goodstein 1 GradsinSustainability

Out of UN #AIforGreen : Vienna GCA 

Out of Wall Street funds: Bloomberg ERM-ESG; GreenSmartMayors; Schwarzman

Out of Asia: Korea-China: Green Big Bang  ; Middle East : ValueWater

Out of Poles : Arctic circle energy

- we welcome reunion of all green curriculum entrepreneurs - provisional youth-cop26 destination, Glasgow University Union 6 November 260th sustainability review of machine-human era started by watt/smith

rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk 2025report.com interning wash dc bidenuni 2021 + 1 240 316 8157

  can you think of anyone who could link in the 

japan view youth need to celebrate all round the 50 college coalition which George Soros announced at world economic forum 2020

OSUN - Open Society University Networking

https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/resources/files/179/NetworkCall.pdf

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/global-board

when you look at history's future exponentials from the lenses of how british empire "accidentally" trapped almost all of the two thirds of humans who are on continent of asia with no electricity grids 1760-1945 it seems urgent that diversity of asian views are deeply represented in any worldwide coalition of universities and scholars networks and sdg youth/under 30s

 to me the big hole in OSUN is a Japanese Partner, though obviously my family tree has a lot of bias

girls and rural lives matter is ok because osun is supposed to be the joint legacy of sir fazle abed, brac and soros- that was something boston's jim kim set in motion when he introduced soros , gates and abed in 2005, and which soros picked up the baton on visiting bangladesh 2006 (about 16 years after the clintons who got a guided tour through the eyes of muhammad yunus a very different mover and shaker than sir fazle). While yunus was busy in 2007 going on nobel peace tours, soros set up the global launch of brac usa chaired by the then head of columbia u mailman medical school. Like stanford it helps a lot if the founding dna of a university is motivated by ending viruses. ironically though he never takes credit for it soros in 1996 was first to fund village mobiles too getting a licence at cents in the dollar for the quadir family to build women empowerment with out of boston and dubai

fortunately Japan is publishing my father's biography of john von neumann  summer 2021 for the first time

as you probably know dad was a teenage navigator in allied bomber command hubbed out of modernday myanmar but after being mentored by keynes and meeting von neumann his 3rd systems innovation scoop: 1962 tokyo survey considered his auld enemy as having the tools to renew the whole of asia rising- something that prince charles agreed on at the tokyo olympics 1964 but sadly jfk missed due to assassination

leapfrog forward to HUMANSAI - 2020S SDG DECADE?

we can reframe 60 years of trying to humanise artificial intel as the legacy of von neumann or jfk or japanese, uk and dutch royal families, or what adam smith actually wrote in starting up human and machine age in 1760s at glasgow university- all this assuming human spirit is on the up if we can defeat covid, start rebuilding communities and reunite around climate coalitions at glasgow cop26 nov 2021, with or without the extra border crises of brexit ...

ironically the one time in 2000 i presented at harvard marketing faculty what i had learnt from 20 years of helping MIT collect an the first global database of east-west society needs i was told intangibles/trust-flow auditing across borders would not get funding in usa so i cant imagine soros global board will respond differently to me in 2020 but that still leaves the japanese question on the table so to speak if you think its timely to connect 

happy /safe 2021

chris macrae http://www.2025report.com first published 1984- annual updates friends 38 norman macrae foundation

+1 240 316 8157 wash dc region

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footnote

moving parts of partners of OSUN in addition to 37 nations cultural offices of OS

the tech revolution out of arizona state and san diego mapped by professor crow

the music, arts, and precollege experiential learning revolutions of LEON BOTSTEIN out of bard supported by local good and great eg the roosevelts and soros

central european university moved from the budapest of von neumann and soros to europe's second un city vienna now also the residence of ban ki-moon

the challenge of how to educate the next billion youth in africa coordinated by ghana's ashesi a new university originated as a postgraduate project at berkeley of microsoft technologist awuah 

brac university of fazle abed

Sciences Po Paris - parts of Uni of London

quite a lot of places like palestine berlin, latvia, VIETNAM and uzbekistan that are of the mainstream us and english-speakers student exchange routes

finance climate japan

 march 2021 climate finance https://globalfestivalofaction.org/class/financing-for-climate-action/?wcs_timestamp=1616671800

kNOWLEDGE SHARING PANEL | JAPAN STAGE

HOST: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME & INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

The disruption and devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the inter-dependencies and connectedness of our economy, society and the environment. While the deadly pandemic left millions jobless, we have seen the worst crash of the stock market last March followed by a massive injection by central banks and later a stock market boom in the US and others in a short period of time. As we start to bounce back from the pandemic, it is clear that our growth trajectory was not sustainable and we must find a way to balance our financial system with economic, social and environmental outcomes. We are now at a turning point for people and our planet, and our financial system must be on the same page to deliver the SDGs, which have been subjected to a drastic setback due to the pandemic. In 2020, UNDP established SDG Impact, a common framework for the investors and enterprises to measure, manage and communicate the SDG contribution in a consistent and transparent manner. Despite the global recession, growing interest in sustainable investing is a clear sign that the investors and enterprises also recognize the need for a system change. The IMF is integrating climate change risks into its core activities of macroeconomic policy advice, capacity development and lending in recent years, and now advocates more sustainable finance and a greener recovery from the pandemic. After an introduction by the IMF on the economic outlook of our world beyond COVID-19, a panel discussion with the experts in sustainable finance will envisage how we should turn around our financial system for an sustainable future. What is the role of finance in the face of climate change? What are some practical ways to aim for a financial system to align with the SDGs and green recovery? We welcome investors and enterprises interested in ESG investment and green recovery as well as those interested in learning more about the issue, especially youth, to join this stimulating discussion.

新型コロナウイルスによって引き起こされた混乱は、私たちの社会、経済や環境がいかにつながっていたかをあらためて浮き彫りにしました。株式市場は今世紀最悪の暴落を経験後、中央銀行による資本注入が行われ、短期間で株高ブームが起こっています。私たちの成長戦略が持続可能ではなかったのは明らかであり、コロナ禍からの復興を果たすには、社会、経済、環境と金融システムのバランスをとる方法を早急に見つけなければなりません。
人間と地球はいま、転換期を迎えています。パンデミックで大幅な後退を余儀なくされているSDGsを実現するためには、サステナブル・ファイナンス（持続可能な金融システム）が必要です。国連開発計画（UNDP）は2020年、SDGs達成につながる投資や事業のガイドラインや世界基準を策定し、それに適合した投資や事業を認証する取り組みとして「SDGインパクト」を発表しました。経済が厳しい状況なのにも関わらず、ESG投資などサステナブル・ファイナンスに関心が高まっている事実は、投資家や企業もシステム変革の必要性を認識していることを明確に示しています。IMFでは近年、気候変動に伴うリスクを加味したマクロ経済政策の助言や技術支援、融資を展開しており、サステナブル・ファイナンスをさらに推進しています。
このセッションでは、まず国際通貨基金（IMF）の専門家がコロナ後の経済展望をご紹介。その後、サステナブル・ファイナンスの専門家らが持続可能な未来のために、金融システムがどうあるべきかを議論します。気候変動危機におけるファイナンスの役割とは？SDGsやグリーン・リカバリー（緑の復興）に沿った金融システムをつくるために必要な具体的な取り組みとは？ ESG投資やグリーン・リカバリーに関心のある投資家や企業の方から学生まで、サステナブル・ファイナンスについてもっと知りたい皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。

SPEAKERS

Co-Founder, World Road

IBUN HIRAHARA | 平原 依文

Deputy Head, IMF Office For Asia And The Pacific

JOCHEN M. SCHMITTMANN | ヨハン・マルクス・シュミットマン

Chief Executive Officer, Shibusawa And Company, Inc., Founder And Chairman, Commons Asset Management

KEN SHIBUSAWA | 渋澤 健

Co-Founder And Principal, Read The Air

TRISTA BRIDGES | トリスタ・ブリッジス

hunger goal 2

 marxch 2021 updat japan on goal 2

https://globalfestivalofaction.org/class/a-world-without-hunger/?wcs_timestamp=1616667300

A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER | 飢餓のない世界

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, JAPANESE, INTERNATIONAL SIGN

KNOWLEDGE SHARING PANEL | JAPAN STAGE

HOST: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME & FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

The session, “A World Without Hunger” will focus on multi-sectoral initiatives and efforts towards achieving SDG 2 on zero hunger. After decades of steady decline, the number of people suffering from hunger has been on the rise since 2014. Current estimates show that around 690 million people are suffer from hungry, and if the current trend continues, this number would rise to 840 million by 2030. Man-made conflicts, climate change and economic downturns, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, are exposing more people to the perils of hunger. To tackle the challenge, various actors are implementing emergency food assistance and long-term initiatives to save and change the lives of people. Moderated by the World Food Programme, this session is aimed at sharing knowledge and efforts and good practices to combat hunger by actors from multiple sectors in the field.

Experiences of emergency food assistance for people affected by conflicts, floods and economic crisis in Sudan and other countries will be shared by Mr. Itaru Furuta, Head of Field Office Damazine, Sudan, who has served in various duty stations including Yemen and Myanmar. Mr. Sean Kerrigan, National Director of World Vision Rwanda, a WFP partner, will introduce the organization’s initiatives to achieve SDG2 in the country, including the Home Grown School Feeding programme. Ms. Suzanna Sumkhuu, Head of Development Policy and Planning Division, the National Development Agency of Mongolia, will showcase initiatives implemented in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization to ensure sustainable food production with smart agriculture. The session will provide a venue to deepen understanding about global hunger and discuss latest efforts and challenges ahead. The speakers will also share experiences and ideas to overcome challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

セッション１「飢餓のない世界」では飢餓をゼロにのSDG２を達成するための多分野の取り組みに焦点を当てます。数十年飢餓人口は減少傾向にありましたが２０１４年より世界の飢餓人口は再び増加しています。現在約６億９０００万人が飢餓に苦しんでおり、現在の傾向が続けば２０３０年には飢餓人口は約８億４０００万人に達すると予測されています。紛争や気候変動、貧困に加え新型コロナウイルスの蔓延によって多くの人が飢餓にさらされています。同時に国際機関、NGO、政府といった様々な分野のアクターが緊急食料支援や長期にわたる取り組みを通して命を救い、影響を受けた人の人生に変化をもたらしています。当セッションでは様々なアクターによる現場での飢餓と闘う取り組みや好事例を共有します。WFPパートナーのワールドビジョンからはショーン・ケリガンルワンダ事務所ディレクターが現地の給食提供を中心に、同団体がルワンダでSDG2達成のために行っている取り組みを紹介。モンゴル開発庁のスザンナ・スムクウ開発政策、計画部長からは、FAOとの連携を通じた、スマート農業による持続可能な食料生産の取り組みについて紹介します。このセッションでは世界の飢餓や最新の取り組み、また課題について理解を深めるとともにコロナ禍での困難を乗り越えるための活動やアイディアについても共有、議論する場を提供します。

MEGUMI IIZUKA | 飯塚　恵

Ms. Iizuka brings over 10 years of experience in journalism and communications at international and Japanese news organizations. Prior to joining WFP as Communications Officer, she supported refugees and vulnerable women and girls in Turkey, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan as the project manager of UN Women. 

SPEAKER

Head Of Field Office Damazine, Sudan, WFP

ITARU FURUTA | 古田　到

Communications Officer, WFP Japan Relations Office

MEGUMI IIZUKA | 飯塚　恵

National Director, World Vision Rwanda

SEAN KERRIGAN | ショーン　ケリガン

Head Of Development Policy And Planning Division, National Development Agency Of Mongolia

SUZANNA SUMKHUU | スザンナ　スムクウ

actions all sdgs euro march 2021

 CHAIRMAN, JAPAN SDGS ACTION PROMOTION COUNCIL

NORICHIKA KANIE

Dr. Kanie’s current positions include a professor at Graduate School of Media Governance, Keio University, Representative Leader of xSDG Laboratory, Keio Research Institute at SFC, and an Adjunct Professor at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNI-IAS). He has also served as an advisor to the Japanese Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), as well as the member of the SDGs Promotion Headquarters, the SDGs Promotion Round-Table, the Government of Japan, and many other government committees, mainly in the field of SDGs. Dr. Kanie is a leading figure in SDGs research in Japan, having been appointed as one of the 15 independent scientists, and the sole Japanese researcher, commissioned to prepare the 2023 UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). In June 2020, he launched ""Japan SDGs Action Promotion Council"", driving SDGs actions in Japan.

WELCOME TO THE SDG GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF ACTION

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

WELCOME | MAIN STAGE

HOST: UN SDG ACTION CAMPAIGN

Welcome to the 2021 edition of the SDG Global Festival of Action! This opening session will introduce you to the issues that will be addressed across the Festival, will introduce you to our new virtual home and share expert insights from a selection of key Festival partners into the hopes and ambitions for what we can achieve together.

SPEAKER