Education has the ability to build the foundations of fraternity among individuals, peoples and cultures, allowing diversity to meet with the primary objective of building a better world and making it grow.
(V. Zani, Cooperation, Peace and Development. The Social Magisterium of the Church for a New Humanity, Life and Thought 2024)
Thursday 10 October, 2.30pm
Institutional greetings
Elena BECCALLI, Rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
H.E. Msgr. Vincenzo ZANI, Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church
Mario TACCOLINI, Coordinator of Development Strategies of the Brescia Campus, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Pius Peter MGENI, Vice Chancellor Ruaha Catholic University
Domenico SIMEONE,
Dean of the Faculty of Education3.15 p.m. - Round table
Decades of International Cooperation: Successes and Open Questions
Introduction and moderator
Stefania GANDOLFI, Vittorino Chizzolini Foundation
Speakers
Patrizio BIANCHI, Spokesperson for the Italian Network of UNESCO Chairs
Roberto RIDOLFI, President of Link 2007
Myriam RADHOUANE, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Genève
Fr. Martinien BOSOKPALE DUMANA, Université Catholique du Congo, Kinshasa
Marco CASELLI, Director of the University Centre for International Solidarity (CeSI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
5.30 p.m. - Debate
Friday, October 11
9.30 a.m. - Round table
Scenarios and challenges
Introduction and moderator
Domenico SIMEONE, Dean of the Faculty of Education
Speakers
Pietro SEBASTIANI, former Ambassador of Italy to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, former Director of Italian Development Cooperation and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organizations in Italy.
Giulio ALBANESE, Director of the Office for Social Communications and for the Office of Missionary Cooperation among the Churches of the Diocese of Rome
Francesco CASTELLI, Rector of the University of Brescia
Peter KLASVOGT, Director of the Katholischen Akademie (Paderborn)
12.00 p.m. - Debate
2.30 p.m. - Round table
International cooperation: principles and criteria
Introduces
Guido MERZONI, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Speakers
Vincenzo BUONOMO, General Councillor of Vatican City State and Rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana University
Jean Paul NIYIGENA, Secretary of the International Foundation for Religions and Cultures - Louvaine La Neuve University
Rita LOCATELLI, Researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Giuseppe MILAN, Honorary Professor of Pedagogy, University of Padua
4.30 p.m. - Debate
5.00 p.m. - Round table
Brescia and international cooperation
Introduction and moderator
Mario TACCOLINI, Coordinator of Development Strategies of the Brescia Campus, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Speakers
H.E. Msgr. Vincenzo ZANI, S.F.E.R.A. Foundation
Sabrina SORLINI, Giuseppe Tovini ETS Foundation and Professor at the University of Brescia
Roberto LOMBARDI, Fondazione Museke Onlus
Paolo TARABORELLI, Head of Foreign Projects, No One Out ETS
6.00 p.m. - Conclusions
Mario MOLTENI, Professor of Corporate Strategy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, CEO of E4Impact Foundation
