Tag: Young people

Speech by Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti – Milan, 2017

“It is absolutely dramatic that, in the contemporary world, young people represent the category of the population most affected by inequalities“. It is in these terms that Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), opened the International Conference of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), which took place from 16 to…
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Integral Campus Project

In resonance with the Synod of 2018, IFCU wishes to dig in the tradition of integral education of Catholic universities to explore four of its aspects which are strategic for rectors, yet little studied within the Federation: Campuses and real/virtual classrooms as places of knowledge and autonomy; The most ambitious practices considering integral education among…
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Continuing Education for Disadvantaged Adolescents in South Asia

Conducted by five Catholic universities in South Asia as well as Asian and European experts, this project, which is promoted by the International Center for Research and Decision Support (CIRAD), aims to understand the processes leading to early school leaving in South Asia, and to devise practical levers to try to counter the dropout phenomenon.…
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