Het hoger onderwijs als hefboom voor globale rechtvaardigheid

Diverse groups of students in higher education have the necessary global citizenship skills to grasp questions concerning global justice from diverse perspectives and take action for this on an individual and collective level, in collaboration with diverse local and international actors. This outcome wants to make students in Flemish higher education aware of their role as global citizens who are committed to global justice. As critical and conscientious global citizens they contribute to sustainable international collaboration and global justice. To achieve this, we want to strengthen their global citizenship skills. Within these skills, we distinguish between different subsets of skills: analysing global challenges, developing critical vision, feeling involved in global justice, respecting diversity and promoting inclusiveness through actions and developing and executing campaigns. Within higher education, we reach students with trainings on global citizenship and preparation days for international mobility. We also focus on incoming students through orientation and support workshops. We also set up and support extracurricular participative student projects, in which students work on specific current challenges regarding diversity, decolonisation, intersectionality and gender through campaigning and advocacy. We also collaborate with professors, policymakers, staff members from international offices and researchers to reinforce the organisational and intellectual back-end of higher education. We intend to reach them with seminars, colloquia, and tailor-made workshops. Finally, through our collaboration with researchers we want to stimulate innovation of international mobility and globale justice. This research can function as a starting point for informed and evidence-based policy making for international mobility. The target audience for the applied output of this research are policy makers within higher education institutions. Furthermore, we want to contribute to translating the knowledge and insights of this research in applicable educational tools so the knowledge and insight can be valorised in practice and contribute to sustainable international mobility and global justice.