Global Gateway

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00:00:48: Heute nehmen wir Sie, nehmen wir euch mit in die Welt der aktuellen Debatten in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.

00:00:57: Wir sprechen über Global Gateway Eine EU-Initiative für nachhaltige Partnerschaften weltweit.

00:01:06: Internationale Expertinnen.

00:01:07: We have the opportunity and challenges of this initiative in the context of international development cooperation.

00:01:16: Also with us are a look at our past events.

00:01:18: We take part into the Hochschultagung, which took place from the twenty-sixth to the twentieth November two thousand five years ago at the Fachhochschule Kuchstein.

00:01:30: And we bring you another central debate on the development day.

00:01:36: those of the feminist decolonial solidarity in the development cooperation.

00:01:44: You will hear an interview with Radva Khalid Ibrahim from Medico International.

00:01:49: Some parts are English-speaking, especially the insights from the EPIR workshop at the Hochschultaugung twenty five.

00:02:01: Global Gateway is a initiative for the European Union.

00:02:05: With its sustainable structures and cooperations worldwide on or off.

00:02:10: The goal is to invest together with partner countries in areas such as education, research, energy, digitalisation, health and traffic.

00:02:25: Infrastructure plans will be focused as well as energy projects.

00:02:32: In the middle of it there are not classic help but partnerships at eye level.

00:02:39: The EU is working with governments, universities and companies to strengthen long-term structures.

00:02:45: By the end of this year, more than a hundred billion euros should be mobilized in order for them to be invested from public and private sources.

00:02:58: Global Gateway was themed as part of the High School Day in December of twenty five.

00:03:03: The high school day generally deals with the motto, high school and work world – global Perspective.

00:03:15: High schools, research institutions and experts are important partner institutions.

00:03:44: In addition, exchange-based learning processes should be organized.

00:03:50: In some points, representatives of the Global Gateway Initiative show contrasting views.

00:03:56: This is also true for high school days in Kuchstein in twenty five two clearly.

00:04:03: Yes, there are a lot of different perspectives on each other.

00:04:06: I

00:04:07: think the important things are that global gateway is about Europe working together with partners internationally.

00:04:14: We're also talking about international partnership.

00:04:16: The value of a real cooperation at eye level, Nothing and the requirements that exist in the high school system of partner countries can also be addressed well, so we can go along with it.

00:04:33: We will get a little away from this narrative.

00:04:36: We help the global south with developments,

00:04:40: i.e.,

00:04:41: a little bit about the concept of development cooperation towards a partnership definition And of course, this continues in the countries of the global south.

00:04:52: But it is also about how we can work well with important partner regions outside of the country of the Global South, so countries that are part of an internal development phase but also industrialized countries.

00:05:05: For example with countries like Canada and Australia as well as extreme states such as India or Southeast Asia which already have very modern high school systems.

00:05:18: Berhard Volz, department head of international high school cooperation, ÖAD.

00:05:23: Where are the challenges and critical points?

00:05:27: An important point is that the global gateway to partnership on eye level speaks in the decision-making processes neither civil society nor elected bodybuilders like parliaments or also not the partner countries which are integrated into the global south.

00:05:42: That means the question is actually... through all the projects, who defines what is a priority and whose priorities they are.

00:05:52: So-Margarita Langthaler promoted political scientist and senior researcher at the ÖFSE, the Austrian Research Foundation for International Development.

00:06:04: The interview was carried out after one of its workshops in Kuhnstein.

00:06:12: as part

00:06:13: I work for the Austrian Research Institute on International Development, and am here especially specialized in education policy in global south and training strategies within the framework of development collaboration.

00:06:26: We just had a workshop with you about Global Gateway among others – what is your main takeaway this session?

00:06:33: I learned that Global Gateway is very positively framed by important institutions And that if you ask a little bit or dig a little, then there are also many critical considerations, thoughts and doubts come.

00:06:52: Especially to make it short now whether this win-win strategy is to look at European interests but also in the interest of global interest, whether it really works?

00:07:06: There are very many justified doubts!

00:07:09: The concern is, so to speak that it's really about the European interest.

00:07:14: This

00:07:15: shows itself through high bureaucracy and a current intransference in the selection of the funded projects.

00:07:24: This makes the complexity of the initiative visible and shows us that the implementation requires more agreement between many international participants.

00:07:33: In addition, you can write down and the assessments of observers to ensure that there are no specific targets or indicators missing.

00:07:45: And, I prefer infrastructure projects focused on funding.

00:07:51: Infrastructure requirements are essential for prosperity and development.

00:07:54: However this focus also contributes to a European own interest.

00:08:01: especially the development of yeast shows that it is also about simplification of raw material transport.

00:08:09: At this point, because you are a science communicator and listeners who may not necessarily be involved in the topic what would be important

00:08:18: for them to take part?

00:08:19: The Global Gateway presents a shift, a shift from development cooperation where it comes down to human development the so-called

00:08:32: partnerships,

00:08:34: where the goal is to strengthen

00:08:38: European

00:08:38: competition skills.

00:08:39: Thank you very

00:08:41: much!

00:08:41: The development orientation is unclear, as are the experts in their presentation.

00:09:04: Market opportunities for European companies and extractivist patterns dominate with risks of privatisation

00:09:12: or forgiveness.

00:09:13: Human rights and environmental problems such as gender-relevant developments remain weak.

00:09:21: Governance should be transparent and less participative so that the expert continues.

00:09:26: In the education sector, the bankability logic does not fit.

00:09:31: Financial gaps meet running costs and debt pressure budgets.

00:09:37: The focus is on employability, poor basic education and split-off high school operations,".

00:09:45: Magritte Langthaler

00:09:52: says.

00:09:53: At my peer workshop Global Gateway balancing strategy in partnership with University Corporation with the global south In addition to Lankthaler, Annika Söndberg Lindtross, Anna-Therisa Steinbrucker and Belate Gebrovold were invited.

00:10:14: In a full seminar room of the FH Kuhstein, the participants had already agreed on the rules before the guests started with their cinema.

00:10:28: Elke Stinning was in charge of the moderation at the workshop.

00:10:31: Dear colleagues, a warm welcome to our session on Global Gateway Balancing

00:10:36: Strategy and Partnership

00:10:37: in University Cooperation with the Global South.

00:10:41: I work as a PF Program Officer at OED.

00:10:45: I'm also pleased that ahead of our team is here Andreas Obleich.

00:10:48: so any questions after this sessions you are

00:10:51: very welcome to address them for us.

00:10:55: And now coming back to the session

00:10:58: Over the last years, Development Cooperation has undergone a significant change and this is what

00:11:05: we would like to discuss here today in this session.

00:11:09: The change was from a value-driven

00:11:12: development cooperation

00:11:13: more to strategic oriented

00:11:15: approach And it's been mentioned several times by representatives of the

00:11:21: Eagle Commission.

00:11:23: And even though in some of the projects higher educational research is a component, it's sometimes less visible.

00:11:36: We have invited four highly qualified speakers.

00:11:54: In their cinema, they

00:12:04: talk about the

00:12:07: experiences

00:12:10: from previous

00:12:20: cooperations.

00:12:21: And now, I would like to introduce our final speaker for today.

00:12:26: and i'd like use this opportunity also talk briefly about the program

00:12:30: and present that applications

00:12:32: from their first or second program phase.

00:12:34: we are in a third-program phase of APR and it's important international partners.

00:12:41: there is possibility applying for national funds National funds that are accessible and one is EPIEDAL, the other one is AFRICAN UNITED.

00:12:56: Belace Gebrovoldt is professor for international relations at Management Center Innsbruck.

00:13:01: His research focus is on migration, European-African relations... ...and conflict dynamics in Africa.

00:13:12: He currently leads an EPIE project to strengthen studies and professional advice of universities in Ethiopia.

00:13:20: Together with partner universities, the project aims to better support students' studies and career decisions.

00:13:29: And to deepen cooperation between Austrian and Ethiopian universities.

00:13:46: Anna-Theresa Steinburger from Austria's Foreign Ministry section seven General Direction for International Partnerships and Humanitarian Help spoke about the current Austrian approach in the context of Global Gateway.

00:13:59: It works in the field of international development financing, and deals with the European Global Gateway Initiative

00:14:11: among

00:14:15: others

00:14:17: with the Austrian contribution to

00:14:18: Europe.

00:14:19: After

00:14:19: that was discussed the subject in the planning.

00:14:28: Thank you very much for raising the importance of higher education

00:14:31: and research cooperation, just

00:14:33: to bring us back why we are doing this or why

00:14:36: universities are cooperating with universities

00:14:38: in a global cause.

00:14:40: Actually

00:14:41: I've come at the end

00:14:42: of our session but maybe if there's still time it may take five more minutes.

00:14:48: so in case some questions or comments i would like see from the presentations.

00:14:53: And so if you still have some more minutes, then maybe

00:14:58: other questions or

00:15:06: comments?

00:15:08: I don't know for Anna Teresa of anyone how it's possible

00:15:13: that global gateway

00:15:15: focuses on climate

00:15:19: transition

00:15:20: and everything

00:15:22: as like an

00:15:23: umbrella.

00:15:25: things like Erasmus

00:15:26: Plus and how it was put in the Erasmu Plus, a new program generation is not mentioned

00:15:31: anymore.

00:15:31: What's not mentioned?

00:15:36: Green transition or green... The

00:15:39: priority isn't a priority for any of our programs.

00:15:43: How...?

00:15:45: Or why?

00:15:48: Can anybody answer this question?

00:15:51: Maybe Annika Because you know that you are more familiar

00:15:56: with the end processes?

00:15:57: Yeah well first of all I think And then also please the other

00:15:59: speakers come.

00:16:00: So Erasmus Plus, of course has both an intra-European

00:16:04: and a global dimension.

00:16:06: And Global Gateway is only relevant for the global dimensions of Erasmous Plus.

00:16:13: I think this is difficult.

00:16:14: It's about actually internal education policy

00:16:18: so it isn't really related to Global Gateway as such.

00:16:21: If it had been taken

00:16:22: out of Erasmus it could be because

00:16:25: of intra

00:16:26: European

00:16:26: political priorities.

00:16:28: Now we know

00:16:29: that security is a big issue in Europe now, AI and digital strategic independence.

00:16:36: There are other issues

00:16:38: that

00:16:38: are politically important like the green deal which was very important during current budgetary period has maybe less importance of pity.

00:16:51: so it depends on who has been lobbying what into the text

00:16:54: of Erasmus Plus.

00:16:56: that's my best

00:16:57: answer right now, but maybe also over to the researcher

00:17:00: you had in your room.

00:17:01: there might have some difficulties.

00:17:06: Any more comments?

00:17:12: I

00:17:12: wouldn't have anything add to Annika's suggestion and i don't know definitely

00:17:22: but

00:17:22: It's because of shifting priorities within the European Union, which is clearly a way from a great transition to strategic independence and security issues.

00:17:29: Okay then, there

00:17:39: was one?

00:17:39: I just want to know whether those egos

00:17:42: share the points

00:17:43: of criticism that were presented by Margarita Because i just read

00:17:50: an document

00:17:51: on Africa's bishop conference warning

00:17:55: that the global gateway

00:17:57: will deepen enormously,

00:18:00: economic and societal

00:18:03: dependencies

00:18:04: in African societies.

00:18:07: So what is your comment

00:18:08: on this?

00:18:10: Which

00:18:11: points are most crucial

00:18:13: from you point of view?

00:18:16: Yeah maybe just briefly.

00:18:18: I completely underline all same criticism that you

00:18:23: have.

00:18:23: And I spent two years at the education sector unit, but in fact we were really worried because we saw this transition from looking at a system approach and also budget support to countries.

00:18:36: they could then develop their own education systems.

00:18:39: now it's more about investments skills.

00:18:43: But I think

00:18:43: another criticism that maybe, if you mentioned it is the global gateway.

00:18:49: It's supposed to be one size fits all and Africa is a hugely diverse continent And some African countries have more economic growth.

00:19:00: Maybe there... You know its relevant about strategic economy and private sector but There are also the kind of least developed countries where they're very vulnerable and there is maybe no private sector.

00:19:19: They need a different approach, I think that's been a lot of criticism about the incompatibility or global gateway for certain regions which is completely true as well.

00:19:48: Thank you

00:20:00: very

00:20:00: much for participating.

00:20:06: We have come to an end of this session.

00:20:08: Thank you very much for coming into this topic with us.

00:20:12: It's

00:20:13: a rather complex issue as I said before, it has different perspectives and there is lots of material to read.

00:20:23: so thank you all for sharing and participating And the rain-keeping of the participants set up again during the seminar.

00:20:58: We come to the first Internationalization

00:21:11: Award of this day

00:21:14: in the category I. The award

00:21:17: is given

00:21:18: at the Fachhochschule Juaneo for its example, make it possible for their initiatives with the

00:21:27: ideology.

00:21:29: The

00:21:30: first internationalization award was awarded by Mrs.

00:21:37: Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner, Minister of Women, Science and Research, for women.

00:21:49: First of all, we have presented

00:21:53: outstanding examples for internationalization activities in Austria.

00:21:59: This is a common initiative by the BMW FWF and the IRD to get initiatives ahead of time, but partly small ones that show how internationalization works – at what places does an award work?

00:22:16: There are difficulties in taking part of mobility, especially being supported.

00:22:22: An internationalisation culture can also be created by small screws at different places that you turn to.

00:22:35: We have dealt with the staff and not the staff.

00:22:47: And

00:22:48: here we show how internationalisation has an influence on the institution.

00:23:01: More important is the year.

00:23:07: How internationalisation can be implemented in high schools shows the first Internationalization

00:23:16: Award of twenty-five thousand,

00:23:18: a prize from Austria's

00:23:19: Ministry of Science and the

00:23:21: URD for particularly innovative projects in exactly this

00:23:27: area.

00:23:27: The first place was won by FH Juha Neum with an international mobility project for students in

00:23:38: the studio.

00:23:39: The International Learning

00:23:40: Experience Systematisch

00:23:42: Föhrten, Erzliche

00:23:43: Gratulation.

00:23:49: The University of Innsbruck, the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and the Technische Universität Graz were also awarded.

00:23:59: Their initiatives reached international campus culture by personal development .

00:24:08: And this ended the Hochschultagung.

00:24:10: In order to get back on Global Gateway, the initiative understands international cooperation as a joint investment in the future.

00:24:21: The experts at the last high school day of the year – in the year that was held by the Global Gateway – offer chances.

00:24:29: They also emphasize that it needs patience and transparency for real cooperation so that this initiative can be sustainable and fully unfolded.

00:24:51: Now an interview with Radwa Khalid Ibrahim will take place.

00:24:56: This was recorded in Innsbruck

00:25:04: on the day of its development in twenty-five.

00:25:33: She is a referent for critical help to medical international, as well as scientific staff and doctors with a focus on global south and gender equality.

00:25:47: Politically influenced by the Egyptian Revolution in the year of two thousand eleven she works at the critical theory of development politics from below and transnational feminism.

00:26:04: White

00:26:05: Women in Development Europe and the Austrian network, as well as Vienna Institute for International Dialogue & Cooperation are working on feminist perspectives in development and global politics.

00:26:18: They are also tackling decolonial approaches with clear criticism

00:26:23: of

00:26:23: colonial power relationships.

00:26:26: Why don't we IDC have a workshop with Radwar Khalid Ibrahim at the ninth development day last November in Innsbruck?

00:26:35: It was

00:26:36: about the basics of feminist and decolonial criticism, the development cooperation.

00:26:42: And at the same time also the perspective for action and possibilities that they offer us.

00:26:49: Especially today in a time when there is a right-wing movement and especially militarization and backlash.

00:26:57: We actually tried to develop action strategies as well For example, the repoliticization of development cooperation.

00:27:10: The removal from legitimizing China that let us defend things we actually criticize and above all again the importance... the global relations and the solidarity movements on a global level.

00:27:29: And that it not only needs in terms of south, but also for a common perspective and future especially in Europe which is moving to the right side as well.

00:27:40: And there are militarization waves.

00:27:44: The workshop went exactly this way.

00:27:47: That means what do we have for common potentials?

00:27:52: For example, for alliance training.

00:27:58: For example the requirements to maintain spaces.

00:28:01: What is our common message that we can have together and how do you pick the fights?

00:28:08: There were different opinions but in any case it was a consensus or one of the important ways of handling.

00:28:19: when looking at the agency Big picture is globale Solidaritäten-Zeiten.

00:28:25: Material

00:28:26: redistribution up

00:28:41: to

00:28:55: reparations, end militarisation and a care-centric policy such as social and ecological justice are further central requirements.

00:29:08: The Sustainable Development Goals that were more of a support in my analysis and a promise – you know that multilateral structures often not, so to speak for the ones we need most of them.

00:29:26: And at the same time it was a promise... ...for another possible world although one knows exactly that they will actually be achieved because... ...the state trade or rather... ...a lot of states also start in the north especially states in the North with their... ...up until now centering power and hegemony even though on the other side the SDGs as value and norm, perhaps even a form of we have achieved something.

00:29:55: We are the good people who made this amulet.

00:29:59: But at the same time climate criminals also support civil wars, at the exact same time these reasons or at least these goals are buried.

00:30:15: And what we see today is that this is the right pressure.

00:30:22: I wanted to say, why do we have to act in such a strenuous manner?

00:30:27: The field is gone.

00:30:28: With the whole rhetoric of geopolitics and security policy

00:30:33: etc.,

00:30:34: what's going on at the end of it... ...is exactly this state interest and the fight for the erhalten of the hegemonyal and central status to hold on.

00:30:48: And this liberal sugar mantle around it, including the SDGs, is no longer important anymore and we see that also in trade and not only in rhetoric.

00:31:10: It doesn't look particularly good from a perspective of the future but at the same time I can also see where it comes from.

00:31:19: there's a clear attitude, so clear political attitude by Bilau and the struggle for Bilau because the multilateral structures are And there is SDGs, strong institutions and peace.

00:31:40: That's probably not enough for the most of us at least.

00:31:48: What you often think about in the collective is that war or conflict

00:31:55: etc.,

00:31:56: what's out there... ...and so on.

00:31:59: And at the same time we also live in a time of militarization, strengthening patriarchal structures or strengthening of patriarchal structure.

00:32:08: In the end, we see a change of the financial structures and households of each European state away from public schools, health systems but also solidarity structures not just inside them but also to the outside,

00:32:30: i.e.,

00:32:30: the ODA or the goals of development which were always interesting and interesting.

00:32:38: And I think that's exactly what it is meant by when a state rhetoric becomes militarized.

00:32:53: money for the question of solidarity in and out would be written.

00:32:59: It is meant that when the world becomes a place where you can't live in dignity or if one belongs to a certain small group, or also belong to some class within the North, they rent money debates

00:33:21: etc.,

00:33:21: so from there it goes.

00:33:28: It's not just about what happens out there, but it's all restricted.

00:33:34: What you can do is to organize yourself and show your attitude.

00:33:39: To hold something against the right-hand side of the military as a citizen.

00:33:44: To keep that in mind.

00:33:45: The idea for solidarity.

00:33:48: The

00:33:50: feminist decolonial solidarity emerged in movements of the global south, as well as in black and indigenous feminisms.

00:33:59: This approach is

00:34:00: today global.

00:34:03: Groups and networks like DAWN, the World March Of Women, AWIT, Association for Women's Rights In Development, Neon Amenos The African Feminist Forum, the Decolonial Feminists Collective in Europe Women Living Under Muslim Laws and many other indigenous women organizations work together at Amazonas and Pacific Raums.

00:34:30: They connect local movements with support across countries.

00:34:36: Together they want to eliminate inequality of power so that no one because of the origin, skin color, gender or poverty.

00:34:59: They do not only come from powerful countries to make strong decisions about knowledge and decision

00:35:21: making but also aim for many perspectives.

00:35:23: In addition they set themselves up for a fair distribution of money, land and other resources.

00:35:29: Their goal is a future that protects life for care and care in the center, and the nature is fair.

00:35:39: And many others

00:35:40: too.".

00:35:40: You don't have to be a big analyst there to see that the world controls you in one direction which isn´t particularly positive.

00:35:54: I think it would also not be good if we had the great hope of having a difficult psychological position because what you can learn And that's what I'm saying, but Bertolt Brecht so... People live, people continue to do things.

00:36:07: People are trying their best to defend themselves all the time.

00:36:09: They protect all of them in this world.

00:36:11: They are young people who still go on the streets even though every IPC report is worse than any other one and the next.

00:36:19: Even if they know that tomorrow it will definitely get better.

00:36:24: And yet they keep going down the street.

00:36:26: All those people with human rights for gas go down the road... ...even though politics has left them behind since two years ago.

00:36:40: All people who still continue to try and do the right thing, despite all that remains.

00:36:50: The hope of trade.

00:36:52: Solidary

00:36:54: feminist perspectives connect the struggle for decolonialization, patriarchy, racism and capitalist exploitation.

00:37:05: An interview with Radva Khalid Ibrahim from Medico International, led by Momo Kunishu Edited by Marjada has it.

00:37:13: And with that we are at the end of today's edition of World in the Oar.

00:37:29: I hope this was just as enjoyable a moment for your oars, how it was to participate in these events and thank you always for listening and enjoying us.

00:37:39: if they also turn on again next time and hear the world in their oars.

00:37:46: Until then,

00:37:54: bye dad!

00:37:54: for international development

00:38:00: cooperation.