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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><span style="font-size:20px;">6th ANIE Annual Conference</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ff0000;">7th – 9th October 2015</span><br>
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<br>
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(in collaboration with <span style="color:#ff0000;">Open University of Tanzania</span>)</strong></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 153, 51);">From the MDGs to SDGs: The contributions of international higher education</span></strong></span></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px;">The year 2015 marks the deadline set for achieving the <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>Millenium Development Goals</em></span> (MDGs). It is time to take stock of the progress made since 2000 when the UN General Assembly adopted the 8 MDGs to respond to gross inequalities in human development worldwide and to plan for the future. The attainment of the MDGs was to lead to the development of a shared future based on a common humanity and its diversity. What did international higher education contribute towards the MDGs? As debates are ongoing on the post 2015 developments, especially on the <em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Sustainable Development Goals</span></em> (SDGS), what will be the role of higher education especially its international dimension? The mobilization of both internal and external resources to revitalize African universities to enable them address these challenges is an important agenda. The recently concluded Africa Higher Education summit recognized this and identified the critical issues for the future of higher education in Africa. The international dimension of higher education, especially research partnerships and mobility attained lots of emphasis. The 6th ANIE Annual Conference brings together higher education leaders, opinion shapers, researchers and practitioners to debate on these salient and timely topics. It will discuss the impacts of partnerships on research and innovations, mobility, access, management and governance practices, capacity building and knowledge sharing and their relations to the MDGs and to their role in the debates and formulations of the new SDGs. ANIE will host the conference in collaboration with the Open University of Tanzania (OUT).</span><br>
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<strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 153, 51);">Sub Themes:</span></span></span></strong></div>
<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#fff0f5;">Sub Themes:</span><br>
• University partnerships for research and sustainable development<br>
• Curriculum innovations for the MDGs and the future through SDGs<br>
• Role of African universities and gender equality and women empowerment<br>
• Global partnerships for local impacts<br>
Call for sessions and papers</span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px;">We invite abstracts of not more than 200 words and related to the main theme and the sub themes outlined above. They should be sent to sec@anienetwork.org on or before 30th June 2015. Authors of successful abstracts will be informed by 15th July 2015.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 153, 51);">Important dates:</span></span></strong><br>
Registration opens 1st May 2015<br>
Submission of abstracts 30th June 2015<br>
Acceptance of abstracts 15th July 2015<br>
Early bird deadline 30th July 2015<br>
Registration closed 10th September 2015<br>
Conference dates 7th – 9th October 2015<br>
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<strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 153, 51);">Conference Fees:</span></span></strong><br>
Early Bird After 30th July 2015<br>
Students $150 $200<br>
ANIE Member $200 $250<br>
Non-ANIE member (African countries) $250 $ 300 <br>
Non-ANIE member (Rest of the world) $ 300 $ 350<br>
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Please note that conference fees will cover the costs of tea/coffee, lunches and conference materials.<br>
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<strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="background-color:#009933;">Pre- conference workshops- 7th October 2015</span></span></strong></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:18px;">There will be two pre-conference workshops on 7th October 2015. One will be on Professionalization of international offices in African Universities while the other will be on -Internationalization of the Curriculum. Each workshop targets a maximum of 30 participants each cost USD 50 over the conference fees. Participants will receive certificate of participation. The details of these will be posted on the ANIE website shortly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong><span style="background-color:#009933;">More Information</span></strong></span><br>
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The Africa Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE) is a pan-African network and think-tank committed to the advancement of high quality research, capacity building, information sharing and exchange, transnational networking and cooperation, and policy advocacy on internationalization of education. Established in 2008, ANIE has its Secretariat based at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. More information on the conference can be obtained from <a href="mailto:sec@anienetwork.org">sec@anienetwork.org</a> or by visiting <a href="http://www.conference.anienetwork.org">www.conference.anienetwork.org</a>.</span></p>
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