One World Citizen
Union des associations e-graine
e-graine is developing a national education programme about migration. Made up of a range of educational tools designed for schools and public spaces, e-graine combines an intellectual understanding of the global issues related to migration with real human encounters between people (both mobile and settled), migration actors and projects. The aim is global citizenship education through workshops and tools, design and implementation of training, and advocacy action.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, e-graine has chosen to maintain its annual seminar, organised in a safe way. It seemed important to us to bring together volunteer leaders and permanent staff from the different associations of the movement in order to take stock of progress, to structure and strengthen our cooperation, and to collectively build the future of our movement. "They didn't know that it was impossible, so they did it," Mr. Twain said.
This experiential exhibition was designed by e-graine in close collaboration with its scientific committee. It is nourished by the diversity of its visitors, who are alternately subjects of experiments and depositaries of testimonies, intended to allow visitors to better understand multicultural France. One out of three French people has foreign parents or grandparents. A group of French citizens shared their family histories, which are far from “national”, deconstructing prejudices about migration.
The experiential exhibition "Nous, d'ailleurs" came out of a workshop at the end of September. The structure and contents vary in order to cater to school audiences from the age of 14 as well as adults. All the modules are based on active teaching methods. Visitors will be alternately be experiencing and contributing (through testimonials) to enable a better understanding of multicultural France. 12 universities in France are already planning to be involved in the exhibition.
The Climate Living Lab
Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)
Climate Living Lab consists of two innovative educational practices: the ClimateLab and ClimateFactory. Both educational practices complement each other in terms of methodology and content and reinforce each other's work on glocal challenges. The ClimateFactory is a voluntary and open coalition in which everyone (students, staff and external stakeholders) can contribute to climate and global issues in an informal learning environment within AUAS. In the ClimateLab students create solutions for climate issues with a social impact that require an intensive service design process. They work during a whole semester in interdisciplinary, international and intergenerational teams on a climate issue.
The Climate Factory Festival featured a shuttle of solar-powered boats, the longest veggie table, a campus run and workshops on sustainability, although these activities had to be cancelled due to the pandemic.
Climate Factory started a new project, Green Oxygen, which entailed transforming a courtyard into vegetable gardens. This picture shows a meeting with social distancing measures, while tasting raspberries.
Students of the subgroup Food for Thought, a taskforce within ClimateFACTORY, developed an attractive, digital recipe booklet with vegetarian, budget-friendly and easy to make recipes.
HN Global Academy - Global Education for journalists with journalists
Hospodárske noviny (HN)
Developing a long-term global education programme for (and by) staff of the HN newspaper and journalism student-interns from Slovak and Czech universities. It will be implemented via a long-term series of workshops for staff and students on various global issues, run by journalists and experts, including awareness-raising video infographics. The aim is to bring a global outlook into our reporting.
To make their Global Education workshops as good as possible, trainer Lenka Putalová was invited to show editors of the daily newspaper Hospodárske noviny some methodical and didactic tricks on how to teach, so that they in turn could use Global Education methods.
How do you pitch global stories to an editor? It might look simple but it is not. As part of their activities, journalists discussed what a good (global) pitch should look like.
The climate crisis is here, and there is no time to waste. Realistic, but scary - this was the focus of an important workshop by Juraj Mesík, analyst of global trends and expert on climate change.
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