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The Korea International Cooperation Agency’s Pacific Asia Society Youth Corps (KOICA-PYC) is a global volunteer organization that has dispatched college students to the Asia Pacific region for more than the past two decades. This study explores how executive board members of the KOICA-PYC evaluate Korean college students during their summer vacations. This study specifically asks how the executive board members view their college students’ development of ideas regarding the social and cultural development of global society through volunteer experiences in the greater Asia Pacific region and how these experiences increase their understanding of global citizenship. The findings show that the participants perceived both positive influences from and challenges to the promotion of global citizenship and multiculturalism. This study discusses the nexus between global citizenship and cultural dominance, as well as the prospects of multicultural education in Korea. It also provides implications for larger issues of culture and education in contemporary global society, calling on future scholars to pay close attention to the meanings of global volunteer work in their own geographical and regional contexts.
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This paper studies the role of European universities in the fight against disinformation, to observe the extent to which they meet the criteria established by the European Union (EU) in this area. To this end, content analysis is carried out on a sample of initiatives related to disinformation in 140 higher education institutions in Italy, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, Albania and Spain (countries participating in the European project ‘FakeSpotting’). For this purpose, a qualitative analysis tool was set up to systematize the exploratory study of the aforementioned initiatives and to report the conclusions on the treatment of the problem, as well as the degree of participation. Among the main results, it is concluded that approximately 40% of the institutions analysed act on the phenomenon, but that there is a notable disparity between countries. With respect to the actions, an assessment of the nature, thematic focus and level of agreement with the EU to address the phenomenon of disinformation is presented.