In Conversation with Globalization is an innovative international integrative teaching program, organized in collaboration with Universität Stuttgart (Germany), St. Xavier's College of the University of Mumbai (India) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa), which offers valuable multidisciplinary and multicultural learning opportunities.
Created ten years ago by an international consortium of prestigious partner universities, for the past six years UNIBG has been a direct protagonist, thanks to the involvement of five students selected from LMCCI and PMTS Courses, who will have the posssibility to participate in the course and Project week.
The program offers participating students the opportunity to obtain an Open Badge following the positive evaluation, shared by the referents of the various partner sites, of the activities carried out during the program (online course and Project Week).
For more information you can contact the coordinator, Prof. Dorothee Heller, dorothee.heller@unibg.it
The call for participation will be published on September 1st and will be open until September 22th, 2025. For more details CLICK HERE.
The 2025-2026 edition of this international teaching program is about the effects of globalization in an increasingly interconnected world.
It will address various aspects of globalization and explore some of the challenges for societies in a new phase of globalization. This phase is marked by multifaceted developments. In our interdisciplinary course we will developments that can be seen as disruptions in the current stage of globalization.
The discussion will take place with regard to Asia (focus on India), Africa (focus on South Africa) and Europe (focus on Germany and Italy). Course topics will include current debates in politics, economy, society, arts and literature.
This blended course is offered in cooperation between the University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany), St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, India), Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the University of Bergamo (Italy).
Phase 1: Participants will study and learn together in a virtual classroom. Throughout the course they will work individually and in international groups.
Phase 2: The course will end with an international Project week in presence in Mumbai, India, at the end of January-early February 2026
This interdisciplinary and intercultural course offers an excellent opportunity for studying in an international atmosphere and gaining intercultural competencies. For the online course ILIAS platform will be used.
The topic of the 2023-2024 edition, with the project week taking place in February 10-17, 2024 in Mumbai, India, is "The Short Run and the Long Walk to Sustainability": in post-pandemic times, some significant changes are affecting the politics, economics, and cultural life of many countries, perhaps pointing to a new phase in the processes of globalization, from a model of global division of labor to a model of global competition that is articulated on multiple and complex levels. Many new players are entering the scene, and in countries such as the United States and China, the first, but undoubted, signs of these changes taking place are already being seen. On the other hand, from many quarters comes the call, as well as the desire, for a more stable, peaceful and prosperous world globally. The climate change debate is in fact the most urgent of a series of challenges facing the immediate future of a very large number of people in many countries around the world.
This year's program will be devoted to these compelling issues.
The program has always featured major study and engagement events, including, for example, the talk with Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, in the 2022-2023 edition.
