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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
GAZETTE
CONCORD HUB 4 NEWSLETTER – SUMMER 2019 EDITION
Highlights from CONCORD Spring 2019 Hub 4 meeting highlights
The "Litmus Test for EU Leaders" on how On 27-28 March, Hub 4 members gathered in Brussels for the spring Hub 4
to work for Sustainable Development has meeting, where they shared updates on what happened at European and
been launched at the HUB 1 meeting in national level, and reflected on crucial policy and advocacy future actions and
April! Read more priorities, related to Global Citizenship Educations, awareness raising and
The HUB 3 has published a practical people engagement.
guide for Civil Society Organisations to Hub 4 elected two new Steering Group members: Sophia Caiolo (ALDA) and
engage with EU delegations. Read more Ela Kielak (Grupa Zagranica).
The European Parliament voted on its Hub 4 met with the new Director Tanya Cox: Key discussions on the way
position on the External Action Single forward within the framework of the Mid-Term Review. The discussions
Instrument in the framework of the MFF focused on the future of the working structures as well as a reflection on the
2021-2027 on 27th of March. Read more paradigm shift
CONCORD was present at the UN High- 2019 EP Elections: Exchange on the member's campaigns and use of
Level Political Forum on Sustainable CONCORD's material.
Development. Stay tuned to learn more MFF advocacy: Decided as Hub 4 to secure GCE in the programming phase
about CONCORD's presence at this with a Hub 4 focal point in the programming work of CONCORD.
event. Read more Paradigm Shift: Extensive discussion on the Paradigm Shift. Hub 4 decided
to look back at the Code of Conduct. This area of work has been considered
central in the current configuration of the confederation.
To learn more on the Hub 4 meeting, read here.
2019 EP Elections
The EP Elections transversal group has put a lot of work into the 2019 Elections during
the last months.
The 2019 EP Elections took place between the 23rd and the 26th of May. Check out
CONCORD’s overview on the Elections.
CONCORD Europe developed infographics targeted towards the European Elections of
2019 in order for our members to use them for communications and campaigning
purposes. There have been two volumes of these infographics shared with members.
The Volume 1 has been shared in early February while the Volume 2, with new tools
General Assembly Highlight (Gifs, flyers...) has been shared in May, just before the electoral week.
Our 2019 General Assembly gathered
our members in Brussels for 2 days on The Pre-European Elections event, organised by CONCORD took place on the 26th of
June 12th and 13th. In a challenging March and has led to the creation of different task forces. Sign up to them here! To have
global context where inequalities are a more detailed overview of what has been discussed, please read the event’s report.
constantly increasing, our members
jointly exchanged on political priorities On the 2nd of July, the European Council finally reached an agreement on the
and decided on the fair way forward for nomination for the EU leaders positions. The Council suggested Ursula Von der Leyen
our confederation. as the next European Commission President. The Council suggested Josep Borrell
Read more. Fontelles as the next High-Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The
Council suggested Christine Lagarde as the next President of the European Central
Bank. The Council elected Charles Michel as its own European Council President. Read
our Director's Statement on the EU’s nominations.
On the 16th of July, Ursula von der Leyen has been elected President of the
European Commission by the European Parliament. Check out our Director's
Statement on it!
Bridge 47 Activities at HLPF: Keeping Education in
Stakeholders join forces at GCE meeting in Focus
Slovenia Bridge 47 was very present and active at this years High
On June 11 SLOGA, Slovene NGO platform for development, global Level Political Forum at UN headquarters in New York
education and humanitarian aid, organised a national Global City from July 9-18. The project was there to ensure that
Citizenship Education advocacy event in Ljubljana. The purpose of Education is incorporated in the political declaration, and
the expert consultation titled "The role of Global Citizenship that it is not overlooked in discussions. Bridge 47 held
Education in today's society" was to stimulate the debate on the numerous events to spread the word on the importance
opportunities for enhancing Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in of Target 4.7 in particular. Read more.
Slovenia, including opportunities for the placement of GCE in the Bridge 47 Preparing for Collaborative Event “The
upcoming White Paper on Education in the Republic of Slovenia for Future of SDG 4.7 in Europe”
the 2021-2031 period. Read more in Slovene language. Hub 4 is already a part of this exciting event that will
Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week held 500 GCE events bring people together from all over Europe to discuss the
future of Target 4.7 in Europe. The event will be on the
Lifelong learning week is a traditional Slovene festival of learning,
6-7 November and takes place in Helsinki, Finland. For
which has been providing numerous free educational and cultural
more information, please contact
events for twenty-four years drawing attention to learning throughout
Helsinki2019@bridge47.org
life. This year’s LLW was held between 10 and 19 May and outside
the official date to the end of June 2019. For the second year
SLOGA, Slovene NGO platform for development, global education
and humanitarian aid was festival’s thematic coordinator for Global
Citizenship Education (GCE). As a novelty, GCE was selected to be
one of the joint actions of this year’s festival and more than 500
events were held under the title “We are all one world”, bringing
GCE to new audiences.
The forthcoming GENE Roundtable 41 will take place in Valletta,
Malta on 17-18 October 2019. The event will include, among other
activities the 2019 Global Education Ideas Award Ceremony and will
launch the 2020 Award edition.
Snapshots From The Borders is a 3-year project co-funded GENE 2019 Global Education Ideas Award was launched at
by the European Union (EuropeAid DEAR budget line), run GENE RT40. The award seeks to recognise new ideas for Global
by 35 partners, border Local Authorities and Civil Society Education initiatives that facilitate transformative learning and open
organisations. peoples’ eyes and minds to the realities of the world.
The deadline was on 4th June. GENE received 68 applications from
Snapshots From The Borders aims to improve the critical
32 countries.
understanding of European, national and local decision
The final selection and the results will be announced on 15th
makers and of public opinion about global
September. Awardees will be invited to participate in the Ceremony
interdependencies determining migration flows towards
European borders, in the perspective of reaching SDGs that will take place on 18 October at the RT41 in Malta.
targets, especially SDG 1, 5, 10 11 and 16. Specifically, the
An International Peer Review of Global Education in Estonia was
project intends to strengthen a new horizontal, active
launched in May 2019. GENE put together an international team
network among cities directly facing migration flows at EU
composed of peer experts from Finland, Poland and Slovakia. The
borders, as a way to promote more effective policy
GENE International Peer Review team presented the initial findings
coherence at all levels (European, national, local). Read
and recommendations to the core partners and reference group.
more.
GENE Secretariat and Board is looking forward to making the peer
review of Global Education in Estonia a success.
https://gene.eu/
InterCap: Online Training available for
North-South Centre's Visegrad
Global Educators!
Developing capacities together: European CSO-university networks
Regional Seminar on Global
for global learning on migration, security and sustainable Development Education
development in an interdependent world” (InterCap) is a 3-year
The Budapest 2nd follow-up meeting of the Visegrad
project (from Nov. 2017 to Oct. 2020) funded by EuropeAid. The
Regional Seminar on GDE, took place in 23 May
project aims to enhance critical understanding of migration and
2019 and brought together approximately 30
sustainable development, in the context of SDGs, amongst those in
practitioners and decision-makers from Czech
teacher education, in order to increase comprehension of the
Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to assess
relationship between an interdependent world, (in)-security and risk.
the level of implementation of the recommendations
We would like to invite all interested teachers, educators and global
agreed in Prague and those agreed during the first
trainers to access the project’s eLearning platform and check out the
follow-up meeting held in Warsaw in May 2018, in the
6-module InterCap training course addressing global migrations and
field of GDE policy and curricula development,
sustainable development. The course also comprises 3 modules
pedagogical support and advocacy, in accordance
dedicated to participatory educational methodologies: Communities
with Zagreb Congress strategic recommendations.
of Philosophical Enquiry (COPE), Interactive Learning Communities
CONCORD was represented at this meeting by
(ILC): Engaging in critical thinking, reflection, inquiry and dialogue for
Stefan Grasgruber-Kerl, co-chair of the Hub 4. Read
global learning, Participatory Theatre Methods for Global Learning
more on this event here.
with reference to Theatre for Living. The last module of the course is
dedicated to train the trainer pedagogies.
The course can also be accessed online and offline through the
InterCap app, available for free on Google Play and iOS.
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Journalism against misleading
communication about migration
On June 18th, in the context of the European Development Days,
the Lab Debate “Journalism against misleading communication
about migration” took place, a fundamental reflection about how
Annual Summit of Global Action Schools communication can contribute in tackling inequalities. The lab
The aim of the Global Action Schools programme is to debate was organized by the Consortium of the Piedmont
integrate global development education topics into the NGOs, Italian partner of the DEAR funded project Frame,
curricula and everyday activities at schools, with the emphasis Voice, Report!
on developing teachers’ capacities to provide quality The speakers, journalists with many years of experience reporting
education in these topics. migration issues and migrants’ stories in Europe, Central America
and West Africa, highlighted that reporting should go beyond the
On June 18, the Summit of Global Action Schools was held for political perspective and the legal issues to explain the complex
the first time, focusing on the topic of SDG 1: End poverty. phenomenon of migration.
The event was an opportunity to certify new schools which
joined the programme last year and celebrate their efforts to Frame, Voice, Report! is a support facility that aims at increasing
tackle community issues and intertwine them with their global the engagement of citizens in the fulfilment of the Global Goals in
dimension. Their project activities ranged from events such as 7 EU countries. Through a subgranting system dedicated to small
Water Day, Fairtrade Breakfast or Stop Plastic. Currently, and medium European CSOs, Frame, Voice, Report! is promoting
there are 96 Global Action Schools in the Czech Republic and over 180 initiatives that push citizens to action, based on the
the aim of the Summit was to create a space for them to meet principles of constructive communication, the inclusion of voices
and exchange ideas about the GAS programme, discuss the from the Global South, the collaboration with journalists, targeting
goals they are pursuing and also share good practice and the global issues such as climate change, migration, gender
struggles they might encounter. inequalities
Read more on https://www.varianty.cz/projects/64-global- Read more on the Lab Debate here.
action-schools Read more on the project here.
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