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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.

On Friday June 4 2021, at 18:00, on the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, the “Schools for All” project hosts an open webinar regarding refugee education.

Published May 31, 2021

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Under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers the “NordEd” conference took place on 3-6 May 2021. The opening speeches were held by two Ministers of Education: Jurgita Šiugždinienė, Minister of Education, Science and Sport of Republic of Lithuania and Jussi Saramo, Minister of Education of Republic of Finland, both highlighted their visions for Education after the pandemic.

“We have learned about democracy, equality and how to express your own opinions in a way that others understand, and to stand for your own opinions, and not do the same as everyone else” a student participating in Learning Democracy at Utøya, 10-12 May 2021, said. Due to the pandemic training activities have been reduced so far this year, but now it is possible to organize trainings for students from the local region.

On Wednesday May 19 2021, Geli Aroni, head trainer of the project “Schools for All – Integration of Refugee Children in Greek Schools”, will participate as panelist in the international seminar “Ethics Education to foster intercultural and interfaith learning as a dialogical approach to transform migrant, refugee and host community dynamics”.

Published 16 May 2021

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EWC contributes to a new a project aimed at the development of democratic competences of young people and strengthened Nordic-Baltic cooperation.

Trainers from EWC Schools for Democracy in Ukraine shared their experience on how to teach, evaluate and combine formats in distance learning.