Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series

From 2018–2020, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied by a Policy Brief.

SDG 4: Quality Education

Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality Education, aims to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.’ Through this seminar we aim to open a conversation about the two areas of work that Australia, by signing up to the SDGs, has committed to, namely, the achievement of the goals and targets of SDG 4 in Australia and Australia’s contribution to advancing SDG4 through aid and development.

Panellists

Emily Maiorino, Graduate, Master of International Development, RMIT University

Emily is a recent graduate from RMIT who conducted her International Development Research Project in Kampong Cham province of Cambodia. She undertook her placement at Cambodia's largest Education NGO, Kampuchean Action for Primary Education, where she worked on a number of programs surrounding girls' education, rural education and e-counselling. She has volunteered at Oaktree as an Education Partnership Manager, working exclusively on holistic education programs for rural, vulnerable youth. She is an advocate for non-traditional education and enjoys sharing her experiences as a somewhat emerging development practitioner.

Professor Peter Kelly, School of Education, RMIT University

Peter Kelly is Head of UNESCO UNEVOC at RMIT University, and Professor of Education in the School of Education. He is a sociologist of youth, education and work who has published extensively on young people, globalization, education and work. His current research interests include a critical engagement with young people’s well-being, resilience and enterprise in what has been called the Anthropocene. He is the lead CI on a current ARC Discovery project titled Arts based social enterprises and marginalised young people’s transitions (blog here)

Dr Carolyn Johnstone, Humanities and Social Science, Federation University

Carolyn Johnstone is the Associate Dean, Teaching Quality in the School of Arts and Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee at Federation University. She is the Convenor of the Australian Coalition for Education and Development (ACED), that prepared the Australian SDG 4 Spotlight Report that is being launched today. She combines military and academic experience with an interest in international relations and adult education. Carolyn is interested in how international organisations, governments and NGOs work in partnership, using adult education as a policy lever to address the global challenges of conflict, sustainable development and human security.

Associate Professor Jose Roberto Guevara (Chair), School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University

Robbie teaches in the Master of International Development Program at RMIT. He is an educator with extensive experience in adult, community and popular education, in the areas of education for sustainable development, environmental education, and global citizenship education. He is the Vice-President (Asia-Pacific) of the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) and a Board Member of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) where he represents the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE). The ICAE, GCE and ASPBAE are civil society networks that have actively advocated for the expansion of SDG 4 to include lifelong learning, based on their extensive work during the period of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This is a free event.

Light Refreshments will be served.

Accessibility Information

This event is being held in Building 1 of RMIT's City Campus. An accessibility/mobility access map is available to download here (please scroll to the end of the webpage). Building 1 can be accessed via the adjacent Building 21. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like further information.

About the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network

The Jean Monnet SDG Network brings together researchers from the EU Centre at RMIT University, the National Centre for Research on Europe, the University of Canterbury (NZ), The University of Glasgow, the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University (ANU), and the European Union Centre in Singapore (NUS).

The Network formalises relationships amongst researchers, policy think tanks and Non-Government Organisations who share a primary interest in enhancing the effective contribution of the EU to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia Pacific. By strengthening collaboration amongst researchers and policy makers, the Network promotes a more effective evidence-base for EU institutions to engage with nations in the region to implement the SDGs. Its core question is: how can European Union integration be more effective in supporting the implementation of the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific than would be possible for individual Member States? How can this role be developed further?

Banner Image: © European Union , 2017 / Source: EC - Audiovisual Service / Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart

Presented by the EU Centre and Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University. The Jean Monnet SDG Network is co-funded by the Jean Monnet Activities Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Project number: 587660-Epp-1-2017-1-AU-EPPJMO-NETWORK.