Gaudenz Assenza

Gaudenz Assenza is a university lecturer in the social sciences at Czech and international universities, such as the King’sCollege London, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena or Instituto de Empresa Madrid. His MA degrese gained at Harvard University, PhD at the Oxford University and readership at The University of Economics, Prague (VŠE). He has over 20 years of experience in the scientific research, education and project management. Since 1999 he had realized seven grant projects from the EU, RCN, OSN Foundation or project School for Transformative Leadership at the Palacký University Olomouc, in which participated more than 4000 students in 2011-2013. From 1994 – 2002 worked as a researcher and project manager at Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. Another experience gained at Philips company in Germany and India or World Bank Group, USA. In an international team he works on a development and realization of new organizations and study programmes dealing with ecological sustainability and the development od ethic and social values and a human potential. Now he leads a group University for the Future, emphasizing education which leads up to realization of challenges contributing to the regeneration of education.

Workshop: Abstract

New Renaissance Education

The main question for our seminar would be: "What would higher education look like if you could design it from scratch?" In this co-creative seminar we would lead participants through a process known as a Collaboratory. In the first phase called Understanding the different perspectives the participants will express their views on this question. After that comes a phase called Imagining a new common vision, which is focused on the group consciousness. In the final part, ´Developing prototypes for immediate action´, the co-creators will move from deep reflection to concrete steps. All efforts will be used for developing a new higher education program called New Renaissance Education.