GLEN Multipliers Training Cycle 2010 has kicked off

It is already the 7th year that the Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN) will train over 100 young Europeans to become global education multipliers. The participants are being recruited in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany and France. Once recruited, the participants will take part in a year-long training cycle that will take them from theory, through experience right into the practice of global education.

GLEN Multipliers Training Cycle (MTC) consists of four phases. First the participants attend two Multipliers Training Seminars, where they receive the first training in global education topics and methodology. They are also trained in team work and intercultural communication, as the next phase that follows are the Internships. In tandems and tridems, the young people participate in a three-month long internship provided by civil society organisations in the countries of Africa, Asia and Caucasus. The topics of internships vary from social work, through education to sustainable tourism and related issues. Once the participants are back home, they start planning and then carry out a Global Education Activity on a local, national or European level, based on their experience from the South. The last phase of the Cycle is the RENew Seminar, where all the participants meet again to evaluate, reflect, exchange and network for new joint global education activities.

The new development in the 2010 edition of the GLEN MTC is the Transfer Seminar. After last year’s successful pilot, the Transfer Seminar has become a regular offer of GLEN. The Transfer Seminar is focused on transferring the experience of living and working in countries of the Global South into global education activities in Europe and will take place in November 2010.

For more information please visit http://www.glen-europe.org/ or write to Kasia Szeniawska: kasia@glen-europe.org

Information provided by Kasia Szeniawska, GLEN