Global Webinars
The Talloires Network of Engaged Universities organizes global webinars to convene university leaders, faculty, staff, students, and community partners around the world to share ideas, experiences, and approaches to creating positive social change. Through ongoing exchange and dialogue, our global webinars explore timely issues in higher education and community engagement while creating opportunities for learning and connection across borders. Our global webinars are free of charge and open to all, synchronously and asynchronously. We invite you to explore our collection of webinars, organized by themes, to discover diverse perspectives, inspiring initiatives, and practical approaches to engaged scholarship and collective action.
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Youth are the spark. Strategy is the oxygen. Youth-led movements have proven that they can disrupt the status quo — but how do we transform a moment of disruption into a brighter future for our planet and its inhabitants? This webinar series unites people who are part of the most influential youth-led uprisings. Together, we will learn about four global youth-led movements, examining their origins and infrastructure, failures, and the promise of intersectional solidarity. We will dream together, exploring how individual youth-led movements might create a united front. The future isn’t waiting. It is organizing.
This webinar series explores 3 topics:
- The Origins and Architecture of Youth-led Movements
- Conscious Leadership and Building Youth-led Movements
- Solidarity within and across Youth-led Movements
The For Youth, By Youth movement hosted an exciting webinar series designed to spark critical conversations, build global connections, and empower young leaders to take action. Around the world, young people are confronting climate inaction, systemic inequalities, digital exclusion, and political polarization—challenges that demand bold leadership and collective action. But youth are not just inheriting these problems; they are reshaping the future through conscious leadership and global solidarity—two essential pillars for lasting change. The series brought together youth leaders, academics, and change-makers to explore what it means to lead with purpose, foster collaboration across borders, and create movements that drive real impact.
This series explores 6 topics:
- Conscious Leadership: Learn how to lead with empathy, purpose, and ethical decision-making
- Global Solidarity: Build cross border connections and amplify collective impact
- Participatory Action Research: Empower communities through collaborative grassroots research
- Ethical AI in Today’s World: Explore how AI can drive ethical, youth-led solutions
- Storytelling, The Importance of Our Memories: Discover how stories shape movement and inspire action
- Youth-Led Innovation for Social Change: Leverage creativity and leadership to tackle global challenges
The three-part series is designed to inspire students, university leaders, funders, and other partners to embrace Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a powerful and transformative research method.
The Talloires Network and Open Society University Network are pleased to host workshops organized by engaged research scholars as part of the Amplifying the Voices of Engaged Researchers initiative. This community of practice has met regularly to share ideas and strategies for engaged scholarship across geo-political boundaries, create new and lasting ties among engaged researchers, and organize online workshops for engaged scholars around the world.
This series explores 6 topics:
- Working with Professionals to Develop Skills: Integrating Academic and Endogenous Knowledge (spanish/english)
- Educational Intervention in Vulnerable Contexts: Case Studies in Palestine, Afghanistan, South Africa, and Myanmar
- Strengthening Museum Networks for Social Transformation, an Invitation from Colombia (spanish/english)
- Tackling Barriers of Access to Basic Education in Africa – Experiences of Engaged Scholars from South Africa, Uganda & Kenya (spanish/english)
- Empowering Gender Equality through Public Art: Engaged Learning and Communities of Practice for Effective Gender Policy Briefs in Kyrgyzstan (spanish/english)
- Connecting Dots: Entangling Experiences of Women from Colombia and Afghanistan in Peace-building (spanish/english)