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In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By E. Nigel Harris. Regional University’s journey from Social Engagement to Social InnovationIn framing its 2012-2017 Strategic Plan, the University of the West Indies (UWI) amended its Mission statement to spell out more specifically the areas of societal development – social, economic, political, cultural, environmental— which as an institution, it would address. The statement reads:
To advance education and create knowledge through excellence in teaching, research, innovation, public service, intellectual leadership and outreach in order to support the inclusive (social, economic, political, cultural, environmental) development of the Caribbean region and beyond.
This statement and the accompanying Strategic Plan emphasised the university’s intention to pursue a more proactive and interventionist approach in societal development. It is true that the essential features of the statement may not differ from that of many other universities – a commitment to teaching, research and service – but specifying areas of engagement enables better documentation of the university’s contribution to the transformation of the countries it serves. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Guy Breton. Innovation in higher education: A Modality Or An End?
No matter that everything is well, as long as we ensure that everything is better than it was before us. Condorcet
In 2010, the OECD released its Strategy for Innovation, the result of a process initiated in 2007, which mobilized about fifteen committees of experts, responsible for proposing guidelines to address a range of political, economic, demographic and social issues with a global dimension, and which consequently called for answers on a worldwide scale. The five priority axes around which this strategy is built affect universities in each of their three fundamental missions: research, education and social function.
These priorities of action are set out as follows:

• Endow individuals with the ability to innovate;
• Foster innovation in companies;
• Create knowledge and put it into practice;
• Rely on innovation to meet global and social challenges;
• Improve governance policies in favour of innovation. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Fernando Daniels. Contributing to the conceptual and methodological development of social innovation: a role for universities
Social innovation can be defined as any new idea, approach or intervention, a new service, a new product or a new law, a new type of organization that responds more effectively and sustainably than existing solutions to a well-defined social need.
Social innovation is a creative process of value for society, by which one seeks to respond to a social need identified by the stakeholders, often supported by scientific or experimental data, which generates new institutional and social frameworks, profound changes in the behaviour and attitudes of society, builds alliances and restores power to the communities. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Pam Fredman. Social innovation at the University of Gothenburg
Universities play a key role in creating and developing knowledge and in ensuring that knowledge is disseminated and utilized in society. At the University of Gothenburg, students are given a research-based education and are provided with academic skills to be critical, analytical and creative, making them key players in transformation of knowledge and promotion of innovation in all sectors of society. The University’s responsibility to transfer research results to society also includes innovation. In the areas of medicine, the natural sciences and technology, commercialization and technology transfer have long traditions, and innovation models are well established. However, with the ongoing globalization, climate threats, urbanization, digitalization, social segregation and demand on health care, to name some of the challenges society is facing, it is obvious that innovation processes beyond commercialization and technology transfer are required. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Dzulkifli Abdul Razak. Future of universities and the need for social innovation
University essentially can be viewed as no more than a platform or a vehicle to organise and deliver “education” as a public good, just like a hospital delivers health care services. Taken this way, there are social institutions creatively designed for the advancement of the community as the overarching worldview. In other words, they are social innovations intended to cope with the changing environment as well as the challenges it poses. For this reason, they are deeply committed to the well-being of members of the community and base the values and norms that they acculturated to enable quality of life to emerge from them in meeting the need of the generations to come. In that sense, they are “whole”, “universal” and “forward-looking” in conjecturing up the idea of learning with the framework of education. The aspiration is to minimally meet the Delors’ four pillars of learning, namely: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Hilligje van’t Land. The Role of Higher Education in developing and fostering Social Innovation
Universities are at the heart of knowledge generation, it fosters and values curiosity and critical thinking - or at least should do so; they trigger research, and contribute in essence to the improvement and well-being of societies: they foster innovation and social innovation.
Yet how do they do it? This is the theme of the IAU GMA6 to take place in Montreal in May: Social innovation: challenges and perspectives for higher education.
Definitions of the concept vary, but all focus on its ‘innovative’ dimension by insisting on the association of the concept with ‘new’ knowledge generation, provision of ‘new’ solutions to address ‘new’ and less new but more pressing societal problems; definitions also insist on the fact that social innovation provides ‘better’ answers, financially ‘more’ sound (read ‘less costly’) ‘more’ efficient, ‘more’ sustainable etc. Better, cheaper and now finally providing the real answers society is waiting for? As if solutions to societal problems were not sought by HEIs earlier on? No; but what the papers show is how social innovation is associated with change of mission and vision of higher education more broadly speaking. It is associated with new approaches to how universities used to do what they are supposed to do: teach, educate, research, manage; authors insist on the ‘synergetic’ and cooperative approaches to these. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
Leading Globally Engaged Universities (LGEU)
The IAU is very pleased to launch a unique leadership programme entitled: Leading Globally Engaged Universities (LGEU). The first session will be hosted by the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 15-20 November 2015. The programme will take place two times a year and will move from region to region, hosted by the IAU Members.
The quality of higher education leadership is essential to the well-being of universities but expectations and responsibilities of higher education institutions are expanding while the local and global context is continuously changing, making leadership more complex. Recognizing the challenges, IAU has developed the LGEU programme to support new and future leaders of Higher Education Institutions building on its unique capacity to bring together experts and peers from different parts of the world.. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
IAU Higher Education for EFA (HEEFA) Project: Final report of the Ankara Workshop now published
In November 2014, the IAU Project for better inclusion of higher education (HE) and research for achieving the Education for All (EFA) Goals, otherwise known as HEEFA, discussed its future and provided feedback on the ICT for information accessibility in learning (ICT4IAL) project in which the IAU is a partner at a Workshop held at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
The report is available at www.iau-aiu.net/content/outcomes-1
For more information on HEEFA, see IAU HEEFA Portal at www. heefa.net and the IAU Portal at www.iau-aiu.net/content/efamdgs The Ankara Workshop was organised by Serap Kerbanoglu (Hacettepe University); Nadja Kymlicka and Isabelle Turmaine (IAU).
For more information on the ICT4IAL Project, see the project’s portal at www.ict4ial.eu or contact Isabelle Turmaine, IAU Director, Information Projects and Services (i.turmaine@ iau-aiu.net). Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development and UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
Both Conferences were successfully held in Japan at the beginning of November 2014 and saw 700 delegates from higher education institutions, 76 Ministers and Deputy Ministers and 1100 delegates from 148 countries, as well as young people. Both conferences saw a large IAU delegation, including the IAU President, Dzulkifli Abdul Razak of Malaysia, Angelo Riccaboni, University of Siena and Chair IAU Working Group on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, who played very active roles as co-organisers and speakers at high level panels and workshops.
The events integrated the innovative programmes and initiatives focusing on ESD from around the globe. Both Conferences reaffirmed the need to pursue work to foster sustainable development through education, and particularly higher education.
The Declarations are available on the UNU and on the UNESCO conference websites and should be used to support work at all education levels, www.c-linkage.com/for/hesd/declaration.html / www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ERI/pdf/ Aichi-Nagoya_Declaration_EN.pdf
The Conference saw the launch of the global report on the Decade on Education for Sustainable Development ‘Shaping the Future We Want’ and the Global Action Programme in support of the post-2015 agenda which also features the IAU commitment. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ images/0023/002301/230171e.pdf / www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-world-conference-onesd- 2014/esd-after-2014/global-action-programme/launching/. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
IAU Internationalization Strategies Advisory Service (ISAS)
The IAU offers the Internationalization Strategies Advisory Service (ISAS) to institutional leaders and teams interested in developing or reviewing their internationalization policy, strategy and various programs.
Having become renowned for its longstanding history of promoting, studying and documenting trends in internationalization of higher education and for sharing this knowledge globally, and as IAU Members and others seek to increase the level of preparedness of their students for a more globalized world, to offer new mobility opportunities for faculty and staff, to review their curriculum for improved internationalization ‘at home’; to strengthen their strategic research alliances or to develop marketing approaches to attract more exchange or fee paying international students, they have asked IAU for assistance so that they can benefit from the best thinking and practice from institutions around the world, the IAU launched this Internationalization Strategies Advisory Service (ISAS) for institutional internationalization planning and development. Many projects have been completed and new ones are developing.. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.