Policy

How to influence key stakeholders for a global change?

Policy

SMILE has taken into account all the perspectives and experiences collected during the project and developed an Operational Policy Recommendations Action Plan.

This document has been discussed with different stakeholders at different levels in different events: internally with the consortium in two partners meetings (in Malta and in Cagliari), followed by a survey to stakeholders and an online consultation session with experts. The policy recommendations will be also presented and discussed in a Round Table in Brussels (September 2023) and during the Final Symposium in Barcelona (November 2023).

 

Policy

How to enable a more inclusive and diverse Europe?

The SMILE project understands diversity as an asset that can enhanced the existing strengths of our society.

 

From this point of view, taking into account all the information gathered by the project, SMILE has developed a set of Recommendations and Action Plan that list the Ten SMILE Principles structured in 4 different areas:

The project has also created a comprehensive Action Plan for each of the Ten Principles with shot, medium and long term objectives, and for three different levels of actors: HEI top management, Policy Makers and Civil Society. Visibility of the work expected at these three levels shows how important is for them to interact and collaborate.

You can download this document in English, and also in the translation version in German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian or Romanian.

Note: the original version of this document has been written in English. If you find any incongruence when you use the translated version, please refer to the original document in English for clarification. Thank you.

Round table in Brussels with key stakeholders

On Wednesday 20 September 2023 SMILE hold its Round Table in Brussels at the Info Hub of the European Parliament.

The list of over 30 participants included names from HE academia, policy makers and civil society.

The Policy Recommendations and Action Plan were the central objective of the discussion. The 10 Principles of diversity and inclusion written by SMILE were qualified of fundamental and universal by the participants, which gives great satisfaction to the SMILE consortium.

Amongst the participants we would like to highlight MEP Joao Albuquerque, Svein Hullstein (DG EAC) and Helene Peterbauer (EUA) who were the members of the panel.

If you are interested to see the slides used during this activity, please click here.

If you are interested to read a short summary about the event prepared by Solidar Foundation, please follow this link.

This activity it was organised by ESU and Solidar Foundation with the support from EUCEN, University Cagliari and Fundació Solidaritat UB.