Tuesday 23 September 2008

Nov. 11-16, 2008: GLEN European Global Education Days

A special GLEN seminar - the European Global Education Days (EGEDs) will take place from November 11-16 in South-West-Germany and Strasbourg, France.

What are the European Global Education Days (EGEDs)

The EGEDs (financed by the “Europe for Citizens” Programme) are GLENs main Global Education event this year. It is the time to evaluate GLEN's various Global Education activities, to further develop GLEN's Global Education concept together with different experts, to plan and network for future actions and last but not least to celebrate 5 years anniversary of GLEN.

What actually is GLEN

GLEN is a joint non-profit, politically independent initiative of twelve organizations from the European Union. It aims at contributing to a better understanding of global interdependencies, fair and sustainable ways of living, to a responsible development policy and to North-South relations based upon equal partnership and mutual respect. GLEN intends to acheive its goals by enabling young people to spend three months internships in African and Asian NGOs and to get involved in active realization of Global Education activities after their return back to Europe.

Where do the European Global Education Days take place

The main days of the seminar, 11-15th of November, will take place in Berschweiler-Marpingen, South-West-Germany, ca. 30 km from Saarbrücken and the border to France. At the 15th of November the whole group will move to Strasbourg, France, for one more day in order to participate at the European Development Days, hosted by the European Comission (http://www.eudevdays.eu/).The results of five years‘ inlvolvement in Global Education in Europe will be shown and accompanied by several street actions and exhibitions in the centre of Strasbourg.

Who can take part

Every former GLEN participant or a friend of GLEN interested in Global Education is invited to apply! The Call of participation will go out in the end of September. Applicants should be interested and experienced in Global Education, or, even better, participate in their local GLEN partner organisations' Global Education actions that take place in October and November this year. (For more information how to get involved in these actions contact your local GLEN coordinator- a list of coordinators is available at the GLEN website - or contact the EGED team; see below)

For further information about the EGEDs please have a look at the GLEN website: http://www.glen-europe.org/ or contact the EGED team: Lukas Policar lukas.policar@seznam.cz and Monika Matus monika.matus@gmail.com

Information provided by Laure Heinrich, ASA-Programme, and Monika Matus, EGED team

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