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Τhis school year, EWC’s Schools For All in Greece invited new schools and existing school members of its network to form 4 hubs – 2 in Athens and 2 in Thessaloniki- to collaborate and form synergies.

At the start of 2022, we welcomed ourselves to the “new normal” – only to embark on an unprecedented course of escalating uncertainty. This year, ours was a volatile and ambiguous world. And in this world, EWC persevered in its work: preparing educators and young people to defend democratic values threatened from within and from without.

Two Academies in Athens and two in Thessaloniki took place in January 2022, training the representative groups from the participating schools for the current school year. Cooperation, ideas and plans to be implemented!

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For the school year 2022- 2023, 25 schools of secondary education constitute the 4 hubs in Athens and Thessaloniki that implement the project as part of our network.

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Students teach their classmates, teachers and local politicians after learning more about democratic participation.

Educated children will constitute the backbone of Ukraine as a modern European democracy. Every day, thousands of teachers do their utmost to lift the war generation.

In this Kyiv kindergarten, children are allowed to raise a ruckus and enact war. Here, educators understand what stress is. They are equipped to help a child overcome emotional tensions and stabilize one’s mood.

EWC’s Bojana Dujkovic-Blagojevic participated in the panel discussion “Why teach history in 2022?” at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE).

A journey from Afghanistan to Greece and a dream that wants to come true.
We met Peyman as a student of the 1st High School of Kilkis, one of the schools of the Schools for All network last year.

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On 12 December 2022, EWC conducted a webinar “Teachers for Democracy: Role of Higher Education” and brought together 54 higher education experts, teacher trainers and teacher students from 21 countries. They shared their experiences and discussed how democracy can be promoted through initial teacher education across Europe.

With democracies across the globe backsliding, and a full-blown war raging in the midst of Europe, the European Wergeland Centre gathered representatives of the democratic Russian diaspora and Norwegian academia in Oslo’s Litteraturhuset on November 24, 2022.

Sasha Romantsova, director of Center for Civil Liberties, one of three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, met with representatives from youth organizations in Norway, Ukraine and Poland ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

‘Schools For All – Integration of Refugee Children in the Greek Schools’- has been extended for another school year

31 basic activities for refugee reception in classrooms, schools, and communities. Read the new handbook which is one of the outcomes of the EWC Schools for All project in Greeece.

Most teachers lack the competences to ensure that all Roma students have equal access to quality education. EWC offers a range of trainings in human rights education, democratic citizenship, and the development of Competences for Inclusion and Democratic Culture.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide those involved in EWC’s work with greater transparency as to when and how one can report instances of misconduct or unacceptable behavior.

For the school year 2022-23, the project “Schools for All – Inclusion of Refugee Children in Greek Schools” extends its activity until April 2023, creating 4 local hubs of schools.

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As the first three-year cycle of the project has concluded, a new phase begins. A few thoughts, data, testimonies, and plans regarding the project that has aimed at the heart of the public Greek school system.

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Schools For All national coordinator, Dora Katsamori, participated in the event on 29-30 November organized by ENACTED: European Network of Active Civil Society for Education and Diversity.

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On Monday November 28, 2022, the core team of trainers and writers of the “31 Βasic Activities” presented the handbook publicly for the first time.

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On the occasion of the upcoming International Romani Language Day, a conference was held to present the interim results of the ongoing project “Innovative Education of Teachers to Increase their Intercultural Competences in the Educational Process of Roma Pupils”.

“In line with the Council of Europe’s position, we at the European Wergeland Centre believe it is important to strengthen the democratic forces in the Russian diaspora – including educators and civil society organizations. They can play a crucial role in promoting human rights values as well as act as a counterweight for diaspora groups influenced by the Kremlin authoritarian regime” says Ana Perona-Fjeldstad, EWC Executive Director.

What crosses your mind when you hear someone discuss the strategic importance of education and its role in shaping our future? At best, perhaps, you might nod. But more realistically, you might take it as a cue to gently zone out. In Norway, these words can come across as toothless: people know they are true, but most don’t have a very strong feeling about it, one way or the other. In fact, this calm mindset is one of the many privileges of living in a stable democracy.