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Antoni Giró, president of the UPC, one of the 100 voices highlighted by UNESCO
Antoni Giró, president of the UPC, was one of the voices highlighted in the UNESCO publication “100 voices. A Decade of Inspiration and Achievement in Higher Education”.
27/07/2009
Antoni Giró, president of the Global University for Innovation (GUNI) and of the UPC, was one of the voices highlighted in the UNESCO publication. It reflects the opinions of one hundred international figures from the worlds of academia and politics on the role of higher education in tackling world challenges.
The publication, which was presented in the framework of the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education held in Paris, placed Antoni Giró’s views alongside articles by figures such as Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA; Jacques Attali, ex-chairman of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Theodor Berchem, ex-chairman of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAAD); Tony Blair, ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom; Kofi Annan, ex-secretary general of the United Nations; Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA); Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation; C. Peter Magrath, president of West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; Nelson Mandela, ex-president of South Africa; Angela Merkel, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Barack Obama, president of the United States; Vladimir V. Putin, prime minister of the Russian Federation; José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature; Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France; and Margaret Spellings, ex-secretary of education of the United States.
The intention of the publication is to inspire as well as to inform. The compilation of 100 voices takes up the idea that higher education cannot overlook the fact that it must share knowledge, its vision and its ideas, across the board.
A Decade of Inspiration and Achievement in Higher Education endeavors to highlight past and present debates that remain open at a time of reform within higher education and that forms the basis of the values shared by all universities around the world.
The role of GUNI at the 2009 World Conference on Higher EducationAntoni Giró, president of the Global University for Innovation (GUNI) and of the UPC, recently took part in the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education with his lecture “Higher Education at a Time of Transformation: Towards a New Social Leadership”. The Conference was attended by 1,200 people who represented all of the world’s UNESCO regions.
GUNI was set up in 1999 by UNESCO, the United Nations University and the UPC after the First World Conference on Higher Education in 1998.
GUNI’s mission is to contribute to strengthening the role of higher education in society and to encourage innovation from the perspective that higher education is a public service that has responsibilities towards the society to which it belongs. The Network has 180 members from 68 countries.
The publication, which was presented in the framework of the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education held in Paris, placed Antoni Giró’s views alongside articles by figures such as Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA; Jacques Attali, ex-chairman of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Theodor Berchem, ex-chairman of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAAD); Tony Blair, ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom; Kofi Annan, ex-secretary general of the United Nations; Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA); Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation; C. Peter Magrath, president of West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; Nelson Mandela, ex-president of South Africa; Angela Merkel, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Barack Obama, president of the United States; Vladimir V. Putin, prime minister of the Russian Federation; José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature; Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France; and Margaret Spellings, ex-secretary of education of the United States.
The intention of the publication is to inspire as well as to inform. The compilation of 100 voices takes up the idea that higher education cannot overlook the fact that it must share knowledge, its vision and its ideas, across the board.
A Decade of Inspiration and Achievement in Higher Education endeavors to highlight past and present debates that remain open at a time of reform within higher education and that forms the basis of the values shared by all universities around the world.
The role of GUNI at the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
GUNI was set up in 1999 by UNESCO, the United Nations University and the UPC after the First World Conference on Higher Education in 1998.
GUNI’s mission is to contribute to strengthening the role of higher education in society and to encourage innovation from the perspective that higher education is a public service that has responsibilities towards the society to which it belongs. The Network has 180 members from 68 countries.
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