VESS Week Progam
VESS INTERNATIONAL THINKING WEEK
Alicante
From October 14th to 19th, 2019
Monday 14th: Meeting of certified VESS trainers.
Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Sant Joan d’Alacant School
Tuesday 15th: VESS Cultures of Thinking Accreditation Workshop
Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Sant Joan d’Alacant School
Wednesday 16th: VESS in Action!
Visit the María Asunta de Castalla and La Purísima de Callosa de Segura schools.
*Limited spaces; we will be receiving registrations until the spaces are filled. This activity is open to the network members, as well as the general public registered to any Workshop or the V International VESS Summit.
Thursday 17th: Culture of Thinking Workshops
Each attendee will be able to participate in one workshop; there will be seven simultaneous workshops.
NH Alicante Hotel and AC Marriot Alicante Hotel.
Friday 18th and Saturday 19th: V International VESS Summit
We will start the Summit with the “Look slow to think deeply” museum tour.
At 15:00, we will begin the conferences and presentations at the HH. Maristas Sagrado Corazón School.
We will have Anna Fores as a guest speaker with her “Resilience and neuroscience. Generating opportunities” conference.
On Friday, at 18:00, after the presentations at the HH. Maristas Sagrado Corazón School, we will have a tourist activity through Alicante.
On Saturday, we will be at the school the entire day.
General Schedule:
Monday, October 14th: Meeting of certified VESS Trainers
- Place: Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Sant Joan d’Alcant
| Description | Schedule | Room |
| Registration | 8:30 – 9:00 hrs. | |
| Session | 9:00 – 11:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Coffee | 11:30 – 12:00 hrs. | Free Time |
| Session | 11:47 – 13:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Lunch | 13:30 – 15:00 hrs. | Free Time |
| Session | 15:00 – 16:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Break | 16:30 – 16:50 hrs. | Free Time |
| Session | 16:50 – 18:00 hrs. | School Classroom |
Tuesday, October 15th: Accreditation Workshop
- Place: Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Sant Joan d’Alcant School
| Description | Schedule | Room |
| Registration | 8:30 – 9:00 hrs. | |
| Workshop | 9:00 – 11:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Coffee | 11:30 – 12:00 hrs. | Free Time |
| Workshop | 11:47 – 13:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Lunch | 13:30 – 15:00 hrs. | Free Time |
| Workshop | 15:00 – 16:30 hrs. | School Classroom |
| Break | 16:30 – 16:50 hrs. | Free Time |
| Workshop | 16:50 – 18:00 hrs. | School Classroom |
Wednesday, October 16th: VESS in Action
- Place: Maria Asunta de Castalla School and La Purisima de Callosa de Segura School.
| Description | Schedule | Place |
| Transport | 8:00 hrs.
(we will wait 10 minutes max) |
Meeting Point: NH Alicante Hotel Calle México, 18, 03008 Alicante |
| School Visit | 9:00 – 12:30 hrs. | María Asunta School |
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 hrs. | Lunch |
| Transport | 13:30 – 14:45 hrs. | Transportation |
| School Visit | 15:00 – 17:35 hrs. | La Purísima School |
| Transport | 17:40 hrs. | La Purísima School – NH Alicante School |
Thursday, October 17th: Culture of Thinking Workshop
- Place: NH Alicante Hotel and AC Hotel
| Description | Schedule | Room |
| Registration | 8:30 – 9:00 hrs. | Hotel |
| Workshop | 9:00 – 11:30 hrs. | Hotel Rooms |
| Coffee | 11:30 – 12:00 hrs. | Hotel |
| Workshop | 12:00 – 13:30 hrs. | Hotel Rooms |
| Lunch | 13:30 – 15:00 hrs. | Free Time |
| Workshop | 15:00 – 18:00 hrs. | Hotel Rooms |
VESS Summit
Friday, October 18th:
- Place: HH. Maristas Sagrado Corazón School
| Description | Schedule | Room |
| Museum Tour | 10:00 – 12:40 hrs. | MARQ Museum |
| Lunch | 12:40 – 14:30 hrs. | Free Time |
| Registration | 14:30 – 15:00 hrs. | Maristas School |
| Summit Opening | 15:00 – 15:15 hrs. | Room A – Assembly Hall |
|
“Resilience and neuroscience. Generating opportunities” Conference Anna Fores Miravalles
|
15:15 – 16:00 hrs.
|
Room A- Assembly Hall
|
| “Copernicus” Book Launch
Authors: Marcelo Rivera and Fabian Provenzano
|
16:00 – 16:15 hrs. | Room A – Assembly Hall |
| Presentations | 16:20 – 17:40 hrs. | Rooms A-N |
| Museum visit closing/day closing | 17:40 – 18:00 hrs. | Room A – Assembly Hall |
| Tourist Activity | 18:00 – 20:00 hrs. | Tourism and dinner through Alicante |
Saturday, October 19th: Culture of Thinking Workshop
- Place: HH. Maristas Sagrado Corazón School
| Description | Schedule | Room |
| Welcome Saturday
“Critical thinking in the age of artificial intelligence.” Ana Maria Fernandez |
9:20 – 9:45 hrs.
9:45 – 10:30 hrs. |
Room A – Assembly Hall
Room A – Assembly Hall |
| Coffee | 10:30 – 11:00 hrs. | Coffee Shop* |
| Presentations | 11:00 – 13:00 hrs. | All the Classrooms |
| Lunch | 13:00 – 15:00 hrs. | Available at school (coffee shop)* |
| Presentations | 15:00 – 17:00 hrs. | All the classrooms |
| “Forming entrepreneurial individuals for a world of challenges and changes” Conference
Gilberto Pinzon |
17:00 – 17:45 hrs. |
Room A – Assembly Hall |
| VESS Thinking Week Closing | 17:45 – 18:20 hrs. | Room A – Assembly Hall |
*Included for the registered general public, and members of the Network who made the payment.
**This event is subject to changes depending on schedule and spaces**
Download here the General Program
Registrations here
Information about the VESS Week costs
