Deadline: 9-Sep-24
GENE is launching the 5th round of the Global Education Youth Award to highlight quality initiatives in the framework of the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050.
This edition of the Award is the first to have a specific focus, highlighting youth-led initiatives. The award is intended to value Global Education youth-led initiatives that enable young people to reflect critically on the world and their place in it; to open their eyes, hearts and minds to the reality of the world at local and global level; and empowers them to understand, imagine, hope and act to bring about a work of social and climate justice, peace, solidarity, equity and equality, planetary sustainability and international understanding.
Through the Award, GENE also facilitates learning from quality Global Education youth initiatives to improve policy on Global Education and youth across Europe.
Purpose
- To offer recognition to ongoing or recently finalised youth-led Global Education initiatives in Europe that facilitate transformative learning.
- To collect examples of innovative practice and disseminate learning from youth-led Global Education initiatives to policymakers throughout Europe.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open for applications from organisations that work towards the vision and aims of Global Education as elaborated in the Dublin Declaration, specifically:
- legally constituted, youth-led organisations at local, national and international level in European countries (national and local youth councils, international youth organisations working at all levels).
- legally constituted youth serving organisations (CSOs, LRGs, etc.) at local, national and international level in European countries, where at least 30% of the organisation’s leadership is made up of youth representatives (18-29 years old).
- The initiatives need to be ongoing or recently finalised (in 2024).
Criteria
- Eligible youth-led initiatives are:
- Thematically focused on Global Education, as defined in the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050 (for example global-local challenges, solidarity, sustainability, human rights, global citizenship and social justice through education).
- Non-formal education initiatives for and by young people.
- Innovative, action-oriented initiatives working towards positive change through youth leadership and youth engagement.
- Applicants are encouraged to tell the story of how their initiative contributes to transformative learning and change of perceptions among their audiences and explain in what ways their approach is innovative in their contexts.
For more information, visit GENE.