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YOUTH AND TRANSITIONS PANEL DISCUSSION
On 15 July, World Youth Skills Day, the RYVU team joined the launch of the Youth and Transitions Hub of the Open University’s Centre for the Study of Global Development. The Hub hosted the panel “Post-pandemic recovery: How can marginalised youth be supported in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the labour market?“…
EADI ISS CONFERENCE 2021
The annual conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) was organised online by the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in July 2021. The central theme of the conference was “Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice”…
DECOLONIAL CHATS: ‘COLONIALITY AND ETHICS IN DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH: WHOSE REALITY COUNTS?’
The Centre for International Development at Northumbria University, with the support of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA), hosted in June 2021 the series of online workshops “Decolonial Chats” that was aimed at students, early-career researchers and development practitioners, interrogating how coloniality is…
GULU CONFERENCE 2021
The RYVU team was very pleased to join the UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work, Gulu University Conference, on 25-28 April 2021. The conference format was hybrid, with live sessions happening in Gulu, Uganda, and also livestreams and online panel sessions…
GLOBAL TECHNICAL MEETING – REIMAGINING VOLUNTEERING FOR THE 2030 AGENDA
We are delighted to share that Professor Peter Kanyandago was invited as a key speaker to present at the Global Technical Meeting “Re-imagining Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda” (GTM 2020). The GTM2020 took place virtually on 13-16 July 2020 as a special event during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2020…
DSA CONFERENCE 2020
The annual conference of the UK Development Studies Association (DSA) took place online in July 2020 on the theme ‘New leadership for global challenges’…
VOLUNTEER RESPONSES TO COVID 19: WHAT CAN WE LEARN MOVING FORWARD?
Professor Matt Baillie Smith spoke about the RYVU project at a webinar entitled ‘Volunteer responses to Covid 19: what can we learn moving forward?’ that took place in 30 Apr. The online event was co-hosted by the Institute for Volunteering Research at the University of East Anglia and the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation…