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The EWC project Preparing Future Teachers in the Western Balkans is conducting a pilot project to support mentoring of teacher students in North Macedonia.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 18:30-19:30 via zoom and will be a great chance to introduce how the project works to potential members of the Schools For All network and to new schools interested in joining this school year.

Published: 23 September 2021

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A semester course developed in the EWC project Preparing Future Teachers in the Western Balkans forms the basis for a new training programme which will reach 1.200 teachers in all the 17 school districts in Serbia.

What better time than summer to strengthen our ties with Norwegian colleagues in the field of education for human rights? This summer, we joined forces with colleagues in Arendal, in Oslo and at Utøya – connecting with our Norwegian network and learning from each other.

EWC wants to offer university students interested in our field the possibility to learn by doing, experiencing our work from within. This fall three interns will therefore join our team in Oslo.

Speech given by EWC Executive Director, Ana Perona-Fjeldstad, at the seminar held at Utøya 19-20 July, marking 10 years since the terror attacks 22 July 2011. The event is organized by EWC together with Utøya.

Teachers and school leaders will share experiences, give input and feedback throughout the development of the program.

Representatives from institutions and experts in different countries who work with preventing extremism and/or promoting human rights education and education for democracy.

EWC and Council of Europe work with a group of experts to develop learning materials and trainings for the DEMRED project.

Using the terror attacks in Norway 22 July 2011 as a starting point, young people, teachers, and other educators learn to stand up against discrimination, hate speech and extremism through tools and strategies based on education for democratic citizenship and human rights.

Meet two 14-year-olds from Norway, Anna and Cecilie. They participated in EWCs educational programme Learning Democracy at Utøya in 2020. The program places young people at the center; encouraging them to learn about the terror attacks 22 July 2011, exploring what democracy means in their daily life, and raising issues related to democracy with their peers in schools and local communities.

We arrived with different starting points, but left with a common experience and fuller hearts, wrote students from Sokna and Haugsbygd upper secondary schools after participating at Learning Democracy at Utøya in May 2021.

Participating in finding solutions for the challenges of local community development can be the core driver of democratic changes at schools.

New methods applied in the classrooms help to make teaching & learning process more interactive and interesting for all. Teachers of Ternopil school №14 and Khorol specialized school №1 from the EWC Schools for Democracy in Ukraine, provide inspiration.

Radivilivsky lyceum and Konotop Secondary School №10 are both participating in the EWC Schools for Democracy and are good examples of changes which should be made to assure participation of students, parents, teachers along with the school administration and community representatives in school governance and culture.

Young people often see themselves as future democratic citizens, not democratic citizens today. That is one of the findings of four master students who have done research related to the EWC project Learning Democracy at Utøya.

The final online conference “Schools for Democracy: 5️ years of partnerships for reforms” turned into a celebration when the news broke that the project had received funding for another three years, an endorsment of the results achieved so far.

Challenges and good practices during the pandemic CΟVID-19 regarding refugee matters
On June 22, 2021, Schools For All project participated in the first joint event in collaboration with projects funded by Local Development – Poverty Reduction & Asylum and Migration / EEA Grants, honoring the World Refugee Day. The event was organized by the fund operator for the “Local Development and Poverty Reduction” programme in Greece, SOL Consulting S.A, in partnership with Human Rights 360. The discussion was structured in different panels and was moderated by the journalist Ioanna Fotiadi.

Published June 24 2021

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The Western Balkans are slowly opening and travelling across the region is finally possible. EWC Regional coordinator Bojana Dujkovic visited 6 countries and met with universities and embassies travelling with the recent result report for Preparing Future Teachers in her suitcase.

Schools For All experts interviewed as part of good practices researches.

Published June 21 2021

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Trainers from EWC’s Schools for All project in Greece presented several good practices for refugee education during the webinar “Supporting school communities in Practice” June 4, 2021.

The call to Gymnasiums and High Schools for participation for 2021-222, in the Schools for All project, has been extended until the end of September 2021.

Published June 6 2021

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EWC has been invited to join the newly formed working group in charge of drafting the new National Curriculum for upper secondary school in Ukraine.