FRIS Festival – A (re)generative break for educators and innovators
Imagine this… You arrive at the city centre of Amsterdam. The winter and its dark days have started to lift and the first signs of spring with its fresh green leaves and sun rays have arrived. You enter the hall at Spui25, feeling the warmth and excitement of meeting other educators. A stimulating schedule, specifically crafted to dispel of the winter gloom and to open up for inspiring talks, co-creative workshops and nourishing break-time with like- and alternative-minded educators, awaits you. It’s time for the first-ever FRIS Festival.
Join us on the 28th of March at SPUI25 and TLC Central!
What is FRIS?
The UvA is committed to promoting the development of Fair, Resilient & Inclusive Societies (FRIS), ensuring the well-being of all students, educators and citizens. We live in times of rising inequalities and major social, political and economic transitions. Especially now the question rises: what role can we, as university educators, play in understanding and addressing such pressing issues with our students? The Special Interest Group (SIG) FRIS provides an innovative answer to that question, together with UvA educators who received a FRIS grant and are part of the FRIS community. Now, we call on all interested teachers, students, support staff members, and other interested stakeholders to join us at the FRIS Festival. And to provide answers together!
What can you expect from the FRIS Festival?
Feel welcome for an afternoon consisting of inspiring storytelling, a guided FRIS city-walk, co-creative workshops and nourishing connections! We will be working with questions such as:
- How can we reshape the current education system and give new meaning to our educational practices?
- What happens when we dare to imagine an alternative university system which is not driven by individual competition and performance but instead by collaboration and community-building?
- What would that mean for learners (students’ and educators) experience of and engagement with the university as a place of developmental learning?
- What can other teachers learn from the insights of the finished- and ongoing FRIS projects?
Programme
| Time | Activity |
| 13.00-14.00 | Welcome and inspiration talks (plenary) – What societal challenges drive your passion for teaching? | With contributions by FRIS members Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Sanjay Bissessur, and Hülya Kosar-Altinyelken |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Break to connect
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| 14.30-15.30 | Co-creative Workshops by FRIS grantee teams:
Workshop 1: Diversity matters matter | By Ceren S. Abacioglu with support from Sneha and Chei Workshop 2: Deep Democracy: Throwing arrows and how to use polarization | By Neeltje Schrofer Workshop 3: The Contact Zone: experimenting with film in transdisciplinary learning | By Blandine Joret Workshop 4: Diversity in and around the UvA classroom – The Good, The Bad, and The … Best practices (cocreated in this workshop) | By Irene van Driel and Sindy Sumter FRIS Quiet Space |
| 15.30-15.45 | Break to nourish |
| 15.45-16.45 | Reimagining Educating for a FRIS world (plenary) | By Koen Wessels |
| 16.45-17.15 | Drinks |
Come join us on the 28th of March at SPUI25 and TLC Central!
About the SIG FRIS
The Special Interest Group Fair, Resilient & Inclusive Societies (FRIS) is an initiative of TLC Central (UvA Teaching and Learning Centres) in collaboration with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). The UvA is committed to promoting the development of fair and resilient societies, which ensure the well-being of all citizens. We live in times of rising inequalities and major social, political and economic transitions. Especially now the question grows: what role can we, as university educators, play in understanding and addressing such pressing issues with our students?
For more information about the SIG FRIS, please contact Dr. Mieke Lopes Cardozo, the coordinator of the Special Interest Group (SIG) FRIS. You can also read more about the various FRIS projects that have taken place within the UvA.