Digital Storytelling in Sintra
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The RIGHTS consortium held its firts Interim meeting in Sintra (Portugal) from the 26th to the 27th March hosted by the project partner Asociacao de Professores de Sintra.
The meeting aimed at discussing the actvities implemented so far and the upcoming ones. It was a successful summit where many important decisions, related to the future of the project, were taken.
In Sintra the partners participated also in a workshop on Digital Storytelling from the 28th to the 30th March. The workshop was organised and managed by Joe Lambert, CEO at the Centre for Digital Storytelling that is an international non-profit training, project development, and research organization that assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice. All workshop arrangement were supported by the Portugese Association Media Shots.
The stories produced will be soon made available on this website.
Peace education in crisis times
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ASAL and the municipality of Rome are organising the conference "Peace education in crisis times" on Wednesday 30th November 2011, in Rome. The confere is realised within th eframework of the project "Peace paths" (Percorsi di pace) co-funded by the Regione Lazio, Environment and Peoples cooperation department. Please click on the link below to download the invitation
http://www.comune.roma.it/PCR/resources/cms/documents/locandinaconvegnook.pdf
Global Education Week
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In 1999 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, and on the basis of the 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 Week through the active collaboration of national contacts integrating the Global Education Week network.
The theme choosing process for Global Education Week 2011 resulted from an interactive discussion between the network co-ordinators on the issue of Global Education Week and its relation to the Millennium Development Goals. Various proposals were considered and the final theme agreed by the network was: “ ACT FOR OUR PLANET ! ”
For more info click on this link.
