Today the European Year of Skills (EYS) kicks off with the European Year of Skills Festival. The EYS will run until May 2024, and aims to tackle the mismatch between unemployment and education. SOLIDAR Foundation applauds the attention that EYS will bring to education, training and lifelong learning. However, SOLIDAR deplores the way the European…
What are the solutions to the environmental, social and democratic crises? Which alliances and campaigns progressive movements should put in motion in the context of the 2024 European elections? These questions guided the visit of SOLIDAR’s member organisation La Ligue de l’Enseignement, one of France’s largest organisations in non-formal education, to the SOLIDAR network in Brussels,…
AKA project activities kick-started with a Training of Trainers! On 23 and 24 February the project activities of the AKA Active Citizens project were kick-started with an exciting Training of Trainers organized by SOLIDAR Foundation on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) with all project partners in Brussels! The AKA (Awareness, Knowledge, Action) Active Citizens project aims at promoting the…
WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? AKA (Awareness, Knowledge, Action) Active Citizens is a 2-year project, coordinated by SOLIDAR Foundation, carried out in a consortium of 8 partners across Europe namely Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The project’s primary objective is to promote democratic participation and engagement at the EU level among…
This Policy Pill expands on the question why culture matters for social inclusion by elaborating on the social and cultural policy frameworks in the EU, such as the New European Agenda for Culture, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Agenda 2030. The Pill illuminates the exisiting EU funding for cultural activities for social cohesion. Through video clips,…
On 27th September 2022, SOLIDAR organized the webinar ‘’Integration of newcomers in and through education’’ within the SPRING project. The discussion gathered 8 experts and practitioners on education and/or inclusion of newly-arrived migrants. Since the 2000s, the integration of foreign-born students has become a topical issue as performance figures seemed to indicate they lag behind….
New Proposal for a Council Recommendation on Pathways to School Success: The Road to Success? On 30 June, the European Commission published a new Proposal for a Council Recommendation on Pathways to School Success accompanied by an Annex which proposes a new policy framework. The Proposal is meant to replace the 2011 Council Recommendation on policies to reduce…
SOLIDAR Foundation is excited to announce that in November the project AKA Active Citizens will be launched and implemented together with 8 other organisations! AKA (Awareness, Knowledge, Action) Active Citizens is a project co-funded by the CERV Programme. It will aim at promoting the democratic participation and engagement at EU level of young citizens with vulnerable…
Is observance all we can do? Support teachers & quality education for all! International Day of Education With a shorter history that Teacher’s Day, the International Day of Education (24 January) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as such in 2018. The reason was to celebrate the role of education in bringing global…
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