2nd National Conference

On
Universal Human Values in Higher
Education

Theme:
AKTU as a Living Model for a Sustainable
Humane Society
Venue:
18th – 20th July 2019
Main Auditorium, IPEC, Ghaziabad

Organized by:
Value Education Cell
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University,
Lucknow, through TEQIP-3
Host University
This conference is being organized by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. The
UHV Nodal Centres are taking the lead in it, along with the VE Cell.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical Uni-
versity) was established by the government of Uttar Pradesh on 8 May 2000. As enshrined in
the University Act, the University aims to provide and upgrade education, training and research
in fields of technical education, and to create entrepreneurship and a conducive environment for
pursuit of the technical education in close co-operation with industries.

The university included universal human values in its core academic curriculum in 2009. Since
then there has been effort to develop the foundation for value-based education. In 2016, it
started developing Nodal Centres to augment the previously centralised efforts with
encouraging results.

See: https://aktu.ac.in/ and http://aktu.uhv.org.in/

Conference Venue: IPEC, Ghaziabad

Set in the lush green 7.8 acre campus of IPEC, the conference will be held in the main
auditorium. IPEC is quite approachable. It is located close to National Capital in the Sahibabad
Industrial Area, just 2km from Anand Vihar ISBT and 500m from Vaishali Metro Station,

One of the top 10 colleges in the university, IPEC envisions providing "National leadership in
Human Resource Development, Excellence in Education and impacting Society through
Globally Competent Technologies" to its 3,600+ learners.
As one of the Nodal Centers for UHV, IPEC has been steadily developing its resource persons
and contributing to the UHV efforts in the NCR.

See: https://www.ipec.org.in/

Purpose of the Conference

 To share existing practices and experiences in imparting universal human values
in higher education
 To discuss and plan how further efforts can be made for implementing universal
human values in higher education
 To discuss the need of human, value-based education as well as the ways and
means of introducing curricular changes in this direction
 To share the guidelines, content and process (methodology) for imparting
universal human values in higher education

Registration

Please click on the Link “Registration For 2nd National Conference on Human Values in Higher
Education” on the AKTU website (www.aktu.ac.in) in “Important Link Segment” and fill in the
Registration form
OR

Please Type the URL”https://tinyurl.com/y3a69uwf” and fill the Registration form.

Local hospitality will be provided by organizers during the conference period 18th-20th July 2019.
Local hospitality includes accommodation, food and local transport between hostel / guest
house and conference venue. Delegate accommodation for the conference period will be on
twin sharing basis (no single rooms). Stay on additional days, single room accommodation,
arrangements for accompanying non-registered individuals will be borne by the participants.

There is no registration fee for the conference.

TA & DA of participants is to be borne by their respective institutions.

Contacts
Dr Upasana Mishra
Mr Bhanu Pratap Singh
Dr Manishi Mishra
Mr Gopal Babu
Dr Shyam Kumar
Mr Manoranjan Dev
+91 98916 44950 nchvhe@aktu.ac.in
+91 98894 98839 vecell@aktu.ac.in
+91 98735 33079 nchvhe@aktu.ac.in
+91 99994 82057 nchvhe@aktu.ac.in
+91 94503 42998 shyamk707@gmail.com
+91 89604 20105 manoranjandev14@gmail.com
How to Reach
By Air: Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
By Rail: New Delhi Railway Station (NDS), Ghaziabad Railway Station (GZB)
By Bus: Anand Vihar Bus Terminus (ISBT), New Delhi

The conference and accommodation is arranged at Inderprastha Engineering College

63 Site IV, Sahibabad Industrial Area, Surya Nagar Flyover Road Sahibabad,
Ghaziabad U.P.

Participants
We expect up to 500 participants, directors, deans, senior faculty members from different
institutions under central and state universities, interested in exploring Universal Human Values.
Universities putting significant efforts in Universal Human Values will share their effort and
experiences.

Format
Delegates are encouraged to participate in the inclusive speaker-led discussions, panel
discussions and sharing sessions about the core aspects of universal human values and
develop specific plans for implementation. There are no paper presentations. All sharing must
follow the guidelines for Sharing.

Guidelines for Sharing

The effort should have been tried in education concretely and not just be based on theoretical
arguments all alone. We focus on approaches that have been “experimented on a large scale”
and proliferating, from one institution to another, in a natural manner.
The content should be:
Logical: Possible to discuss and ask questions
Verifiable: Can be verified in one’s experience; non-mystical; not a set of do’s & don’ts
Universal: Applicable to all individuals, for all time, for all places
Humane & Natural: Good for people as well as the planet
Scope: Encompassing all aspects of life

About the Conference

Since AKTU began to incorporate UHV in its academic curriculum in 2009, a significant amount
of work has been done and several encouraging achievements have resulted from these efforts.
With this homework, the first national conference was conducted in 2018 on the theme
“Developing a Holistic perspective”.

This is the second national conference and this year’s theme is “AKTU as a Living Model for a
Sustainable Humane Society”. It is organized by the AKTU Value Education Cell through
TEQIP-3.

This conference is to share and discuss the work at the national level to help develop further
momentum for human, value-based education in India.

Some of the encouraging events at AKTU since 2009 have been:

2009 – Introduced a Foundation Course in Human Values and Professional Ethics
Established AKTU VE Cell with a part-time coordinator
A Text Book, Teacher’s Manual and Teachers’ Orientation Programs (TOP) were
developed
2012 – AKTU becomes an organizing partner for the International Conference on Human
Values in Higher Education (ICHVHE). We have been an active contributing partner in every
ICHVHE since then
2015 – Extension of VE Cell with a full-time head
Appointment of Dean Value Education , BoS for Value Education
Many colleges establish VE Cells
Nodal centres established – eight centres become functional
2017 – AKTU hosted the 6th ICHVHE at IIT Kanpur. A 388-page proceedings of the conference
documented the progress and impact of value education
Development process strengthened. Multi-level faculty development programs (FDP)
started. Facilitator (resource person), co-facilitator (potential resource person), local program
coordinator and observer roles initiated to groom resource persons and program coordinator
2018 – 1st National Conference on Universal Human Values in Higher Education (Theme was
“Developing a Holistic Perspective”)
44 nodal centres established so far, regional nodal centres mooted
36 resource persons, 35 potential resource persons, 300 committed team members
have emerged out of the 6000+ faculty who have gone through the FDPs on UHV
2019 – Supplementary courses on UHV through various traditions have been approved, to be
started in due course of time

Through such conferences and other efforts, the much-needed value education is proliferating
in quite a natural manner from university to university. Today there are more than 50 universities
which have included UHV in their academic curriculum. Since 2018, AICTE has included UHV in
its Model Curriculum applicable country-wide. It is to be offered as an essential 3-credit course
(H-102) in 3rd/4th semester; as well as a prominent module (H-101) in the student induction
program.

This second conference is primarily aimed at:

1. Sharing the efforts on value-based education 2009-2019; as well as its impact within and
beyond AKTU, with the higher education fraternity
2. Developing a strong way-forward, a plan for developing AKTU as a living model of a
sustainable humane society
In the 2006 pre-independence day address to the nation, Dr
APJ Abdul Kalam, the then President of India, had noted
about universal human values “…this process of imparting
self-knowledge would promote a learning atmosphere, where
this whole movement of inquiry into knowledge, into oneself,
into the possibility of something beyond knowledge would
bring about naturally a psychological revolution.. From this
comes inevitably a totally different order in human relationship
and therefore society as a whole. The intelligent
understanding of this process itself can bring about a
profound change in the consciousness of mankind…”