SYMPOSIUM

Teacher Professional Development @ Scale

The Symposium will report on new approaches to enable the delivery of large-scale, cost-effective, continuous professional development programs for teachers, towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) for universal basic education.

Cher Ping Lim is Chair Professor of Learning Technologies and Innovation, The Education University of Hong Kong. He will provide an overview of the results of the landscape review of teacher professional development at scale models across the Global South

Artists and scholars from Lebanon and the UK are being invited to create audio works that sound out the spatial traces of memories, cultures, and bodies ingrained into the physical fabric of their cities. A digital collection will be exhibited.

This Thursday 25th April, the Back Door will be hosting Waveshapers // Acoustic Cities after-party

In a city in which noise can often be all-encompassing, how can we find ways to listen to things that are hidden, stories that are unheard, and forms of life at risk of disappearing?

Acoustic Cities: Beirut-London is a collection of works artists and scholars from Lebanon and the UK. It is a collaboration between: Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL; the RELIEF Centre; Recomposing the City; Theatrum Mundi; and Optophono.

Bringing together the Institute for Global Prosperity's RELIEF Centre and Fast Forward 2030 network, and held in collaboration with Berytech, this event will examine how entrepreneurs can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on SDG9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Researchers from the IGP-led research collaboration, the RELIEF Centre, contribute to this year’s City Debates 2019 conference about displacement and reconstruction in urban environments, run by the American University of Beirut.

The Institute for Global Prosperity, Chatham House and the RELIEF Centre are organising the one-day workshop, “Transitions to Renewable Energy and Sustainable Prosperity in Lebanon: A People-Centred Approach to Equitable Energy Supply”.

Lebanon has the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Ahead of World Refugee Day on 20 June, this session will bring together members of UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity and the RELIEF Centre to discuss the role of the arts in situations of mass displacement. We will see and hear poetry, documentary excerpts, photography, as well as a contribution to last year’s Venice Biennale. This will prompt a conversation around media and humanitarian representations of refuge and displacement, and how artistic expressions can open up new avenues of self-representation, research, and advocacy.

Image credits: Ai Weiwei, Soleil Levant, installation of refugees’ life jackets on the facade of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2017). (c) TeaMeister

This event is a collaboration between the RELIEF Centre and Fast Forward 2030. The RELIEF Centre is a transdisciplinary research collaboration that explores how to build a prosperous and inclusive future for communities affected by mass displacement. The RELIEF Centre's work focusses on Lebanon, where over 25% of the population are refugees. We're hosting Innovation on the Move to explore the role entrepreneurs can play in improving standard of living in this context.

The UCL Institute for Global Prosperity and the RELIEF Centre partners invite you to the UK launch of the RELIEF Centre

Join us in the BP Lecture Theatre at the British Museum for an all day event.

We would like to call a roundtable discussion so you can help us shape Fast Forward 2030 in Lebanon. Our aims are:

• To hear from entrepreneurs who are already building businesses with positive environmental and social impact

• To learn from Lebanon-based entrepreneurs about how we can make this initiative as useful as possible

• To learn about other initiatives we can collaborate with

We will also have a short discussion about the SDGs in Lebanon, and the role entrepreneurship can play in achieving them.

The official launch of the RELIEF Centre will take place between 2nd and 6th of October 2017. It will take place at the Grand Serail - the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon