The Global Education & Youth programme of the North-South Centre (NSC) has, since 1999, been organising the Global Education Week (GEW), an annual decentralised event encouraging global education awareness-raising activities within educational and youth settings in the Council of Europe’s (CoE) member States.  This event is facilitated by the GEW network, composed of national coordinators liaising, following-up and disseminating NSC global education activities at their national level.

Global Education Week 2009 will take place from 14 to 22 November and its theme - chosen in consultation with the North-South Centre GEW network and having the Millennium Development Goals as an inspirational  background - is  “Food for All”.

Through this event - and other complementary activities such as the World Aware Education Award, and the dissemination of pedagogical information through its GEW webpage and through its electronic Global Education Newsletter - the NSC aims at increasing global education understanding and practice in Europe and beyond.  Recently, this strategy has been reinforced with the dissemination of the Global Education Guidelines and the introduction of a Global Education on-line training-course for educators and youth activists, as well as for policy-makers, thus completing NSC awareness-raising and capacity building role in the field of global education.

You will find complementary information on the Global Education Week website