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The pedagogical team of Education for Life participated as facilitators the last days September 27th and 28th in the 2nd European Congress on Global Education organized by North-South Centre of the Council of Europe in Lisbon, where there was a meeting between parliamentarians, governments, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations and higher education institutions. The goal was to contribute in the challenges that suppose the implementation of Maastricht Global Education Declaration, because it demand the coordination of multilateral political measures in all their levels.

Manish Jain (Swaraj), Tobias Troll (DEEEP) and Vanessa Andreotti (U. of Oulu)

The final document with the political strategies will be written and disseminated in the coming month.

Facilitators team

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With Matías Rodríguez (National Director of Youth) and other coordinators

Education for Life moved to Montevideo (Uruguay) on 16 and 17 August, to participate in the International Seminar “2025: Youth with a strategic perspective” organized by the National Youth Institute (INJU). For the seminar was convened national and international experts to discuss youth policies with a medium-term view and reflect on actions taken today and to be taken to advance the rights of young people.

The seminar aims to recognize the work of young people, as Rodriguez mentioned, there was a group that designed the technology Paysandú for a wheelchair to move to the sound of the voice, one of Willow ran for youth Initiatives Fund and develops a line of environmental stewardship and a young entrepreneur who exhibited at the Fair Germina portfolios (youth Card) and who currently marketed in Germany and Colombia.

The INJU-MIDES organizes a series of activities in the Youth Month which was defined between August 6 and September 15, as part of the commemoration of 12 August as International Youth Day, for instance that the government launched a message of accountability for simulcast.

“Being young is not a crime”

The INJU also provides sports activities such as 5K run (8 to 15 September), which will be simultaneously in all regions of the country under the slogan “Being young is not a crime.” The initiative aims to argue with those who think that young people are repositories of all the problems of society. The registration period expires races on August 31.

Learn more at their website:

http://www.inju.gub.uy/

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With Germán Doin, Director of “The Prohibited Education”

On day 13 August 2012, Educating for Life was invited to participate in the premiere of “The Prohibited Education” in Buenos Aires (Argentina). An independent documentary that began three years ago and collecting more than 100 interviews in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain.

The documentary questions the virtues of the education system in place for decades and brings the vision ‘breakthrough’ of teachers, educators, pedagogical professionals and pediatricians who believe in challenging positions of models such as Montessori, home schooling, free schools, education for projects, active schools or Waldorf education.

Along the way, more than 150 people have joined on the team, including actors, technicians and artists. The film, non-profit organization, was co-produced by 704 people and available under Copyleft. Copyleft is a free license for copying, distribution, use and dissemination. Their only requirement is that all activities related to the use, copying, modification, etc., keep the character of both free and open dissemination and modification and that copies or new works that continue to be Copyleft arise.

On the day of its release, the film was screened in 151 theaters, in 119 cities and in 13 countries, and you can see it now here:

In addition, after talking with one of the promoters of the project, Franco Lacomella, Global Education Magazine and the new project emerged after the documentary, REEVO, will work together in the future creating spaces for the dissemination of alternative educational experiences around the world.

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With Andrew Pascoe: KMS Knowledge Management Section in OREALC/UNESCO

Educating for Life visited in July 30th 2012 the Regional Office of Education of UNESCO in Latinamerica and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), based in Santiago de Chile, in order to consolidate support for the new initiative Global Education Magazine.

An initiative that was born in Rio +20 after be the most voted proposal in all the world in the group “Sustainable Development for fighting poverty“, and aims to disseminate the educational experiences in those thematics.

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Educational Association “Education for Life” has been invited to the International Conferences of United Nations Conferences on Sustainable Development in Rio +20 , which will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in June 2012.

At these conferences will attende more than 100 Presidents of State from all the world, but there are also different forums for discussion for the participation of NGOs, governments and private sector, and Education for Life will present its proposal of Global Education in the Dialogues on Sustainable Development between 16 and 19 June 2012.

You can find and vote our proposal here. Then you must go into group “Sustainable development for poverty reduction” and you will see it as: “Promote global education to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development“.

We hope your participation to improve the future education for our children! With an humanist and philanthropic education!