Follow-up meeting South-East Europe and Mediterranean
30 practitioners, educators and decision makers from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta, Romania and Slovenia will discuss existing perspectives and further developments on the concept and practice of global development education, thus contributing to the promotion, recognition and practice of global development education in the South-East Europe and Mediterranean region.
During the one-day meeting, which will take place in Lubljana, Slovenia, and based on the report of the Bucharest global development education follow-up meeting and on the outcomes of the annual task-force meeting(s), participants will review the state of advancement of global development education implementation through three sessions dedicated to
policy making and curriculum development
professional development of educators and quality support
awareness raising and pedagogical tools
The meeting is organised and facilitaded by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe with the support of the European Commission, in cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and in partnership with the following regional partners:
SLOGA, as implementing partner (Slovenia)
Open Education Centre-OEC (Bulgaria)
SKOP (Malta)
FOND (Romania)
assess the progress made in relation to the global development education regional seminar and the recommendations of the follow-up meeting
showcase strategies for the recognition and promotion of global development education developed in the region
identify complementarities between existing education national policies, the recommendations and the Council of Europe framework of competences for democratic culture
identify common challenges and practices in global development education in the region
promote global development education as an integral part of education and development policies
develop joint action and collaboration within and beyond South-East Europe and Mediterranean countries through regular meetings between the regional North-South Centre global development education network coordinators / global development education working groups of the national Civil Society Organisations platforms
further the implementation of global development education in the South-East Europe and Mediterranean countries until 2019 through operational recommendations
Target groups
National coordinators of the North-South Centre global development education network
Practitioners and formal and non-formal educators
Ministries of Education and/or Foreign Affairs
Parliamentarian commissions on education
Local and Regional authorities
Civil Society Organisations platforms
Media representatives
Participants
A national delegation that shall include five to six participants representing:
formal/non-formal education sector
civil society organisations platforms
local authorities
parliamentarian commissions on education
Ministry of Education and/or of Foreign Affairs
the national coordinator of the North-South Centre global development education network
These national multistakeholder task forces monitor the process of global development education curricula and policy development throughout the year, during their regular mid-term meetings.
Follow-up meeting of the South-East Europe and Mediterranean regional seminar on global education
Ljubljana, Slovenia
6 November 2018
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Report and recommendations - December 2016 - Sofia, Bulgaria
Report on the follow-up meeting - November 2017 - Bucharest, Romania
Reference documents
North-South Centre Global Education Guidelines - a Handbook for Educators to Understand and Implement Global Education, Lisbon, 2012 (2008)
Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on education for global interdependence and solidarity , Strasbourg, 2011;
Council of Europe framework of Competences for Democratic Culture, Strasbourg, 2016
White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: “Living Together As Equals in Dignity” Strasbourg, 2008
Third European Congress on Global Education
Other documents
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