Global Education Learning Platform Erasmus Project

Project Title

Global Education Learning Platform

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

„Global Education Learning Platform“ is a joint project of five non-governmental organisations from Benin, Czech Republic, France, Ireland and one university from South Africa, organisations with extensive experience in implementing non-formal and formal global education programmes and activities.

The project aimed at engaging these organisations in a co-created learning process, during a round of study visits, to share and critique global education practice with a view to improving individual and collective methodology, quality and impact of the training offers. The project had a special focus to exchange between the European and non-European perspectives, enriching each other. Furthermore, the project 1) explored the options how to effectively include young people with fewer opportunities (less privileged geographical backgrounds), 2) special attention was be given to exchange the practical concepts, methods and tools and their connection to their European and African identities with a result to 3) foster cooperation in youth training as well as development cooperation among the participating organisations.

The proposed activities comprised a thorough preparation phase including promotion of the project’s objectives at national level, engaging wider public, using an innovative ICT tool as well as dissemination of concrete results of the project. A series of four study visits on 4 specific topics in Benin (Global education), France (Migration), Czech Republic (Deconstructing stereotypes) and South Africa (Global citizenship) were carried out and evaluated with the aim for the key actors of each organization to gain practical experience and deeper understanding of the different methodologies and aspects of working on global education. The study visits enabled 48 youth trainers and 6 project coordinators to multiply the gained knowledge after each study visits in their local environment through 24 national multiplying events. These reached approx. 720 participants with at least 200 participants with fewer opportunities. Throughout the project 4 online discussions among 100 young people were held. As one of the intellectual outputs of the project, a publication on the best practices in global education from the respective countries was published and launched in all of the participating countries in order to have an impact on the global education discourse at the national, regional and international level.

In total the global education learning platform directly targeted more than 1000 young people that were involved in activities, multiplying events and online discussions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135331 Eur

Project Coordinator

INEX – SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT Z S & Country: CZ

Project Partners