The final report of the Invitational Forum on “Converging Competences: Diversity, Higher Education, and Sustainable Democracy,” organized jointly by the Council of Europe and the US Steering Committee of the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy at Council of Europe Headquarters in Strasbourg on October 2 – 3, 2008 has been released.
The purpose of this report is to provide an analytical note and a personal reflection on the theme of converging competences for diversity and sustainable democracy, and the role of higher education in developing these competences. As such, the report does not provide a comprehensive description of the presentations and discussions in the Forum, but is rather a reflection of these through highlighting some of the key issues, and occasionally adding points that were raised but left unanswered in the Forum.
