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“Ranking” International Project

The Development of a Ranking System for Social Responsibility in Universities The past few years have seen various worldwide ranking systems for universities created, within a competitive context. These rankings have been based mainly on the performance of universities in terms of graduates and research publications. Public policy tends to take into account assessment standards…
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Speech by Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti – Milan, 2017

“It is absolutely dramatic that, in the contemporary world, young people represent the category of the population most affected by inequalities“. It is in these terms that Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), opened the International Conference of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), which took place from 16 to…
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Asserting the value of arts and humanities research

I would like to share with you the main points of a lecture entitled « Asserting the value of arts & humanities research », delivered by Ellen Hazelkorn within the framework of the GUNI Conference “International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals: Actors and Implementation”, held on September 18th-19th 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Ellen makes us notice that…
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