Promoting global citizenship education in schools
“Global Citizenship Education (GCED) aims to empower learners of all ages to assume active roles, both locally and globally, in building more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive and secure societies”
UNESCO
Politeia Project
POLITEIA is an Erasmus+ project that aims to address the gap in the provision of global citizenship education in secondary schools and to support teachers to promote and integrate global citizenship in their teaching, in the U.K., Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Cyprus.
The project seeks to build an innovative, tailored training course addressed to teachers to allow them to confidently bring global citizenship issues in the classroom, integrate its themes and values in the citizenship course or across curricula and ignite students’ interest in global citizenship.
How will POLITEIA achieve
its goal?
- By enhancing the competences of teachers to understand and integrate global citizenship education in their teaching.
- By strengthening the provision of global citizenship education in schools with innovative methods, tools and resources.
- By promoting the inclusion of global citizenship education in school curricula.
Project Partners
CANARY WHARF CONSULTING
UK
Canary Wharf Consulting is a British consulting company, providing services to clients in both the public and the private sector.
KMOP – SOCIAL ACTION & INNOVATION CENTRE
GREECE
KMOP – Social Action and Innovation Centre is a non-profit organisation, based in Athens, Greece.
INOVA+
PORTUGAL
INOVA+ is the Portuguese leading company in the promotion and management of international projects in Innovation, Education and Training and RTD.
HUMANITAS – CENTRE FOR GLOBAL LEARNING AND COOPERATION
SLOVENIA
Humanitas is a non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2000. We are the leading organization in the field of Global Education (GE) in Slovenia.
CARDET
CYPRUS
CARDET is one of the leading research and development centers in the Mediterranean region with global expertise in project design and implementation, capacity building, and e-learning.