Rome, Italy-based ASVI-School for Management and Social Change, AIT
will establish a joint venture for the launch of an Executive Master’s
pilot program on Third Sector Management and Fundraising, a program
which is already offered in Europe.
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report on ASVI website.
The agreement opens the door for an Asia-focused advanced training
platform for managers of third sector organizations, particularly in
relation to social change. The joint venture will give AIT access to
best practices in Europe and on Executive Master’s programs in
Fundraising, Europrojects, International Cooperation, and Social
Business.
For Dr. Marco Crescenzi, ASVI President, who was welcomed at the
signing ceremony by AIT President Prof. Said Irandoust, AIT is suitable
partner for its first overture in to the Asian higher education
marketplace.
“We are with the right institute here at AIT,” he told the AIT
president and officials attending the signing ceremony. “Our dream is
to change society, and to build a new education platform for social
sector managers.”
This being the first partnership for ASVI in Asia, Dr. Crescenzi said
AIT’s globally recognized expertise and experience in knowledge
management of sustainable development in the region provides a good
entry platform for the joint venture.
AIT President Said Irandoust expressed his excitement over the private
sector-academic and Asia-Europe linkages inherent in the partnership.
Since the program will stress private sector validation of its
graduates, the program dovetails with AIT’s emphasis of higher
education for the today’s professions, he said.
an ongoing shift in international development cooperation away from
finance towards other factors that contribute to positive sustainable
development.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the globalization of news
coupled with less structured societies has produced a large number
of well-informed citizens around the world, especially among young
adults, who are continuously increasing their awareness on global
issues, such as human rights, MDGs, climate change, fair international
trade, social business, corporate social responsibility, and inequity
in access to education and to credit.
change and innovation in policy analysis and in policy-making on good
governance of global public goods, he said.
formulation continues to grow, both in terms of quantity as well as of
quality and depth of insight. “More people are actively seeking to be
protagonists in designing how societies change and grow.”
democracy and international cooperation create a growing demand for
non-traditional knowledge management and action-oriented training on
social change trends, Dr. Calvani said.
The AIT-ASVI program reflects how the public sector, civil society and
the private sector will cooperate to achieve the progress and
well-being of peoples. It will start as a short training program and
later develop into a full-fledged Professional Master’s program under
AIT Extension, AIT’s ASEAN Regional Center on Millennium Development
Goals (ARCMDG), Yunus Center at AIT, and CSR Asia Center at AIT.
E-learning will be one of the means for conducting the program. ASVI
and AIT will share profits and technical support for the program.
Joining the meeting were from left: Ms.
Tiamkare Thitithamtada, Senior Program Officer, ERCO; Dr. Riaz
Khan, Director of Yunus Center at AIT; Dr. Jonathan Shaw, Director, AIT
Extension; Dr. Sandro Calvani, Director of ARCMDG; AIT
President Said Irandoust; Dr. Marco Crescenzi; Ms. Rocio Requena, Head
of Administration, ASVI; Mr. Olivier Drean, Interim Head-ERCO,
AIT; and Dr. Faiz Shah, Senior Program Specialist, AIT
Extension.