We will be holding three online labs (Concept-building, Programme development and Funding structure). The sessions will be specially geared to designing the Dreamweaver Festival, a model for offering students from deprived backgrounds in low and middle income countries the chance to come together and derive an international experience that would ordinarily not be available to them. Fundamental to this that there should be conceptual volte-face so the programme is not offered as some altruistic token. bur rather that the students themselves are seen as leaders and ambassadors whose mission is to apply their unique knowledge and skills to help save the global north from its own complacency.

The first two sessions are scheduled for the 20th and 21th of March. We aim to explore and respond to the challenges surrounding internationalisation in different parts of the world. Please contact us if you are interested to participate and we will send you the zoom link. The sessions will follow the same framework:

1. Introduction to Cascade and other session participants.

2. Presentation of the overriding question: “How do we reverse the Gaze: How we make the can the dynamics of internationalisation more equitable and more effective in the long term?”

3. Breakout rooms focussing on societal, economic, institutional, research, teaching, and individual perspectives.

4. Report back to the main room.

5. Plans for further sessions and next steps