In recent years, emerging geopolitical tensions, rising nationalism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have questioned and diminished multilateralism and led to a more closed world. However, at the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges that the world faces, such as climate change, food security, and energy resources, demonstrated that local solutions are unfit for purpose and that only a global approach can lead to the resolution of these challenges. Therefore, cooperation is essential and needed more than ever, especially in higher education, to share existing (and create new) knowledge, conduct research that could respond to global and local challenges, and provide tomorrow's citizens with skills and competencies to face future challenges. The webinar will discuss the importance of international collaboration in a panel discussion format with speakers from all the different regions of the world. It will be followed by a Q&A session with the participants. This webinar forms part of a series developed by the IAU since 2020 and reflects on The Future of Higher education. The outcomes are to inform the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (Barcelona, May 2022).

Moderated by Pam Fredman, IAU President (confirmed)

Speakers:

• Hassan Rashid Al-Derham President, Qatar University

• Jacques Frémont, President, University of Ottawa

• Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, President, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Ellen Dixon, Steering Committee member, Global Student Forum

• Camille Salinesi, Vice-president International Relations, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,

Q&A session moderated by Giorgio Marinoni, IAU, Manager, HE and Internationalization policy and projects

Watch the recording here on the IAU Youtube page.