Workshops at Czech universities

In November and December 2007 workshops at Czech universities were carried out by the organization INEX-Association for Voluntary Activities.

Christina Plank, Eliška Steklíková and Šárka Cihlářová, who took part in Eurizons, a campaign for global responsibility and a project of GLEN (Global Education of Young Europeans), continued to work on this year’s topics of the campaign. As a result, workshops about the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and the EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) - both seen from a critical point of view - were worked out and realized at three different universities: the University of Economics, Prague, the Czech University of Life of Sciences Prague and the Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University.

One important part of the workshops was, on the one hand, to inform about EPAs and MDGs and to provide an overview about the topic. On the other hand, the main tool was to have an interesting discussion from different perspectives. The students were provided with a handout in advance in order to give them the possibility to get prepared and to work deeper on the topic. While discussing about the EPAs the participants were acting out roles in favor and in contrast regarding the EPAs. Concerning the MDGs, the students were given criticism from the Southern, feminist and an economic perspective.

Furthermore, one workshop took place in the Eurocentrum Praha and was combined with a photo-exhibition from the Czech GLEN-participants.

More information on http://www.inexsda.cz/, http://www.glen-europe.org/, http://www.eurizons.net/

Information provided by Christina Plank, INEX-SDA