Program:
4.00-4.15 pm
Welcome and opening remarks
Stefania Giannini
Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
Mona Laroussi
Director, Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation (IFEF-OIF)
Tasia Asakawa
Director of Development and Communications, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
Moderator:
Yao Ydo
Director, UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO)
4.15-5.15 pm
Panel presentations: Building back better from COVID-19. Curriculum and quality learning: How can neuroscience contribute?
Moderator:
Grégoire Borst
University of Paris, France
Bridging education and the science of learning
Grégoire Borst
University of Paris, France
Nurturing the learning brain: Leveraging the home learning environment to build back from COVID-19
Jérôme Prado
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, France
Tailored approaches to education: The case of poor reading
Irene Altarelli
University of Paris, France
The biological evidence of the negative effects of stress on learning
Espérance Kashala Abotnes
University of Bergen, Norway
5.15-5.40 pm
Discussion
Q & A with the audience
5.40-5.45 pm
Closing remarks
Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa
Secretary-General, Conference of Ministers of Education of French-speaking Countries (CONFEMEN)
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