Education, Intercultural Learning and Youth

As result of the work developed before and during the Anna Lindh Forum in Barcelona, please, find below the final presentation of the Agora workshop dedicated to Education, Intercultural Learning and Youth.

Agora Workshop 1

EDUCATION, INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND YOUTH

The Workshop gathered approximately 280 people within two days from different cultural background, ages, genders, representing different components of civil society.

The sessions were the space to experience intercultural dialogue and in particular inter-generational, dialogue between formal and non-formal education, which were the challenges and at the same time opportunities for learning and indeed gave to the workshop an added value and richness.

Our first challenge was the understanding of the geographical scope we are working in. EuroMediterranean is not only the countries of the Union for the Mediterranean, but it is a broader EuroMed, taking into consideration all the countries influencing the European Union and South and East Mediterranean countries.

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Intercultural Dialogue 2.0

Reporting live from the Anna Lindh Forum, 4th -7th March 2010 Barcelona

Social Media has seen an exponential development in the very recent times. The massive use of Information Society Technologies continues to accelerate but seems that the words supporting Intercultural Dialogue are being overwhelmingly shadowed by the negative messages and hate speech.

In the Euro-Mediterranean area there is a confluence of paternalism, authoritarianism and dogmatism that gets its reflection in all parts of society.

Despite last decades have seen a huge improvement on the development of education, change in a number of not support the development of real participatory “Citizenship”

The great development of the education in all the area has not been matched  by the develop competences of emancipation, autonomy, empathy, critical thinking, tolerance of ambiguity…

Could the social media be used to develop these competences and to open and extend the reflection to the citizenry??

Views on Consumerism

Our journalist colleague Andreja sent us some of the interviews taken during the implementation of the Training Course Getting GLocal

Here comes the Podcast!

Podcast Getting Glocal Interviews

‘Tune in’ and activate all the senses

 An article from our colleague Marie former participant in Getting GLocal

 This text is of Keri Smith. Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. I found it on a blog on the internet and wanted to share it. I’m inspired by her way of seeing the world differently. I mostly like her ‘Guerilla art kit-book’, where she gives tips to act as a guerilla artist to change the world. I mentioned this writing of her, because I think a lot of situations happening in this world have to do with the sense of FEAR. Read the rest of this entry »

I am afraid of “my Europe”

Last week, Swiss people voted for banned of minarets in Switzerland. According to Swiss laws, if you want to make a law, you should collect at least 1000.000 signatures from people and then all people in the country vote for or against it. So they have done it and result is 57% no for minarets. By the way, minaret is a tall thin tower on a mosque. It is used to call people to pray. But in non-Muslim countries, they don’t do it. Read the rest of this entry »

The End of Culture

The opinions of the article do not necessarily reflect the position of Trajectorya. This post is the result of a co-operative learning exercise developed by participants of the Training Course Getting GLocal: zooming environment (Pärnu, Estonia, November 2009).

Hello, how are you feeling? No, I’m not trying to know if you sleep well or had a good day in your work, but how are you feeling regarding the place where you live? Do you feel like Estonian? German? Italian? Maybe European? Read the rest of this entry »

Reasons why I do not drink bottled water!

From our trainer colleague and activist Ilze Jece (Green Alternative, Latvia)

Bottled water is healthy water—or so marketers would have us believe. Read the rest of this entry »

The future is up to us!

The opinions of the article do not necessarily reflect the position of Trajectorya. This post is the result of a co-operative learning exercise developed by participants of the Training Course Getting GLocal: zooming environment (Pärnu, Estonia, November 2009).

Usually when we talk about the globalisation, we understand it in a negative way, especially when related to environmental and economical issues. How about globalisation from a social perspective? Read the rest of this entry »

One Hope

 The opinions of the article do not necessarily reflect the position of Trajectorya. This post is the result of a co-operative learning exercise developed by participants of the Training Course Getting GLocal: zooming environment (Pärnu, Estonia, November 2009).

You have something different to come this time in this particular place. Do not judge us too hard – because, yes, we have wings, so take THIS !

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How would you like the economy to be in 50 years?

The opinions of the article do not necessarily reflect the position of Trajectorya. This post is the result of a co-operative learning exercise developed by participants of the Training Course Getting GLocal: zooming environment (Pärnu, Estonia, November 2009).

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love-faith-hope

While world population continues to grow and resources are decreasing the business model still seems to be based on infinitive growth. Globalization is seen as the thrive to ecological problems, but this coin has two sides.

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