NORTH-SOUTH CENTRE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE Global Education scenario: from concept to action Lithuania Youth Center & partners Radisson Blu Hotel - Vilnius, 13 April 2015

Competences to engage in global citizenship The Global Education perspective of the North-South Centre The North-South Centre (NSC) objective as regards global education (GE) is to develop strategies and capacity-building for global education, targeting institutions, practitioners and learners from the formal and non-formal educational sector. Global Education is understood as a holistic education dealing with the growing interconnectedness between local and global realities. Global Education aims at enabling learners to understand world issues while empowering them with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes desirable for world citizens to face and deal with global problems.

Competences to engage in global citizenship The Global Education perspective of the North-South Centre One of the core competences of Global Education is the ability to understand facts holistically, fostering multiperspectivity and the deconstruction of stereotypes. It helps learners to understand the complexity of the world, be aware of contradictions and uncertainties and understand that there is no one-dimensional solution for complex problems. It helps learners to deal with cultural variety of languages and codes so that mutual understanding can be achieved.

Competences to engage in global citizenship The Global Education perspective of the North-South Centre Global Education competences fosters empathy and intercultural skills in communication while its methodology creates a learning environment based on dialogue, active listening, respect for others opinion and constructive assertiveness. Global Education promotes the principles of pluralism, non- discrimination and social justice. Global Education perspective brings the notion of global citizenship aware of global realities and engaged on working for a sustainable world, based on dialogue and cooperation, and on shared human, social and economic rights.

Competences to engage in global citizenship The Global Education perspective of the North-South Centre Promoting Global Education through: Strategy and Policy Making Capacity-building Awareness-raising & dissemination

Global Education programme Strategy and Policy-making :  GE Charter (1997)  GE multistakeholder Congresses (2002/2012/2015)  National and Regional GE multistakeholder seminars ( )  GE recommendation (2011)

Global Education programme Capacity-building  Global Education Guidelines (EN, FR, and Arabic, BG, GER, GK, IT, Montenegrin, PL, PT, SL, SP)  E-learning scheme (HRE; ICD; Democratic Citizenship)  Training for trainers Youth & Global Citizenship / Structured participation  Network of Universities on Youth and Global Citizenship

Global Education programme Awareness-raising & dissemination  Global Education Week (GEW) & GEW network  GE website  Newsletter, FB, Twitter

Global Education process By Educators for Educators; Learners at the centre of GE, in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation Multistakeholder approach; Practitioners and decision-makers involved in GE policy-making Partnership approach; Partners involved in GE strategy planning and policy-making Continuous: building on the feedback of practitioners and stakeholders. Seminars recommendations and evaluation of training activities

Beyond rd GE Congress, assessing the work so far and putting into perspective priorities in the following areas : 1) national strategy development and implementation; 2) curricular reform; 3) continuing professional development of educators; 4) quality support and monitoring; 5) campaigning and outreach Within : CoE priorities in the field of education; UN & EU post 2015 agenda; UNESCO GCEd programme

Links North-South Centre institutional website New NSC Global Education Website - (Operational since November 2014) National & regional seminars education-seminars Global Education Guidelines guidelines Global Education on-line training-courses Global Education Week

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