The Global Education Week activities at Daugavpils University
Aktualizēts 28.11.2014 12:44
In the frames of Global Education Week, starting from November 11, 2014 and during a week time Institute of Sustainable Education and Career Support center at Daugavpils University has organized interactive workshops with students on food security. Similar activities within the Global Education week have taken place also in other European countries.
The idea of organizing Global educational activities firstly appeared in 1999 when the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe has launched the first Global Education Week, promoting school activities in the member States with a specific focus on how to overcome poverty and social exclusion. Since then, having received positive feed-back from 1999, the North-South Centre invites the 47 member States of the Council of Europe to participate annually in the Global Education. An active collaboration of national contacts creates the Global Education Week network. The theme for Global Education Week 2014 had been chosen during an interactive discussion between the network coordinators. Various proposals had been considered, although the final theme agreed was “Food Security!”.
The Global Education Week encourages students and young people to explore educational activities for global citizenship. It is a matter of addressing issues of diversity and inequality at the local as well as at the global level: awareness of the wider world and of our own role as a world citizens; attitudes of respect for diversity and intercultural communication skills; ability to take action to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place; responsibility for our own actions.
In regards to The Global Education Week, we express our gratitude to The Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS) who provides a favourable environment for implementation of sustainability agenda in Latvia, as well as to seminar moderators: Līga Antoneviča, Mārīte Kravale – Pauliņa and Dzintra Iliško, who facilitated the discussion.
More Information:
Dzintra Iliško
E-mail: dzintra.ilisko[at]du.ces.lv
Phone: +371 29378690