Events

Last week, IREX welcomed 72 teachers from fifteen different countries to Washington, D.C., for the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) End of Program Conference. These teachers spent the past five months in an intensive professional development program at one of five US Universities. The End of Program Conference is the culmination of the professional and cultural exchange experience that the teachers have gone through over the course of the semester.  During the conference, teachers presented excerpts from original professional development teacher training modules that they created at their host universities on effective teaching methods such as active learning, sheltered instruction, and technology for instruction.

On May 16, 2011, marking the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD), the Kurdistan Regional Government Department of Information Technology and IREX are hosting a conference on Government Responses to the the Global Transparency Imperative. A Hands-on Training will follow May 17, 2011. Both activities will be at KRG IT Academy in Erbil.

From April 5 to April 7, 2011  Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will travel to Bucharest to visit the Global Libraries Romania – Biblionet program. Burwell and Pearson will take part in a national panel discussion on the role that libraries can play in deploying e-government services and visit several of Romania’s rural libraries that are effectively addressing community development challenges.
 

IREX is pleased to host the Project on Middle East Democracy seminar, "Supporting Democracy in the Middle East: Tools and Strategy."

Please join our panelists, young entrepreneurs, and innovators at the next SID-Washington Youth in Development workgroup session for a dynamic conversation on the immediate future of social media campaigns.

On Noverber 10th, 2010 at 10:00 am IREX's CSML project will host an event that reflects upon the ways in which women have contributed to peace processes in conflict regions. 

Eugene Gatari will discuss the causes of the conflict in Rwanda and examine different strategies and initiatives designed to address these causes

Recently, we hosted a delegation of educators from northwestern China. The High School attached to Northwest Normal University is one of the high schools in which IREX is implementing a student journalism program.

IREX Program Director in Lebanon, Peter Salloum, will share innovative approaches, examples, and lessons learned on working with youth to address conflict and corruption in Lebanon’s most divided communities.

We invite you to a panel discussion that addresses the issue of vulnerable children and youth and the different approaches that are currently being used by the development community to reach them.