World Oceans Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the ocean for our survival and for the planet, and our individual and collective duty to use its resources sustainably.

Find here a wealth of educational resources to get involved and celebrate the world ocean day 2019, and get involved: 

https://globaldimension.org.uk/resource/world-oceans-day-2/?fbclid=IwAR0DiU8skZlV3UDHicFQ1CpB6SPP9LL1OkeYXiEgcSBROKeAic-EjEn-OYs

Let’s #BeatAirPollution!

For this year’s World Environment Day, UN Environment will be calling on everyone, everywhere to come together to Beat Air Pollution, which is now the biggest public health crisis on the planet.

Sequel to last year’s fight to BeatPlasticPollution, UN Environment wishes to mobilise schools to take actions against air pollution so that children can learn and grow in the healthier environment.

Attached here is a very brief guide (PDF) on what they can do and how to register in order to show off their proud actions.

We encourage schools all around the worls to REGISTER online ANY actions to beat air pollution (link here).

More about the World Environment Day 2019: https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/

Please share this to spread environmental awareness, spirit and motivation!

A collection of resources from around the BBC to help your students to spot fake news and false information. This content explores the social, political and economic impact of news reporting, and the skills needed to analyse and critically evaluate information across a range of media.

You can find resources for a range of students' age.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4fRwvHcfr5hYMMltFqvP6qF/help-your-students-spot-false-news

The Council of Europe's film ”Beat Bullying” demonstrates the harmful effects of bullying and highlights how citizenship education programmes can equip children with the necessary understanding, skills and confidence they need to help stop bullying and violence at school.

Watch the 10 min Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=593&v=e5sB7mndfrQ

If you are an educator, you may be intersted in the following Educational Material Prepared by CoE:

• Democracy and Human Rights Starts with us
• Demogratic Governance of Schools
• Compasito
• Passport to your rights
• I have rights, you have rights, he/she has rights
• The campaign "no hate speach" movement

These and other teaching resources can be found at:

https://www.coe.int/en/web/edc

This report aims to help the next generation learn the right things in the right way. It begins by setting out why a learning revolution is needed, based on interviews with thinkers, educators, learners and policy makers. It then explores the opportunities and ideas that could be a basis for the coalitions needed to deliver change. It concludes by setting out nine global learning goals, across knowledge, skills and character to help deliver the transformation of learning.

Be Kind, Curious and Brave - A Survival Guide  to the 21st Century.

A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without radical action, UN biodiversity experts said on Monday  6 May 2019.

"Following the adoption of this historic report, no one will be able to claim that they did not know," the UNESCO head said.

Read more:

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1037941

or watch video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XA7CmhMEt4

"Free to Speak - Safe to Learn" Democratic School for All is a Council of Europe campaign for schools all over Europe. The main aim of the campaign is to highlight the commitment to democratic values and principles in the life and culture of schools in Council of Europe’s member states.

The campaign was launched in November 208 and will run up until 2022. It will provide tools as well as opportunities for showcasing and working further on building and maintaining democratic culture across Europe.

Read more: https://www.coe.int/en/web/campaign-free-to-speak-safe-to-learn/about

In times of increasing extremism, xenophobia, violence, and radicalisation, it becomes crucial to build the capacity of education personnel, school leaders and education employers, to promote the fundamental values of freedom, democracy, tolerance, equality, human rights and solidarity, through education. Teaching and learning about democratic citizenship, human rights and EU common values is crucial for countering the negative forces of our time and building social inclusion in diverse educational contexts and learning environments. The power of education in this sense is unique and multiple: unique because there is no other environment or tool that touches families, social groups, communities and societies as a whole; multiple because where education is denied, other rights are denied, where it is upheld, other rights prosper.

This MOOC aims to foster the promotion of inclusive education, democratic citizenship and human rights through the transfer of knowledge about the definitions, frameworks and content of Human Rights Education as well as the analysis of existing and innovative practices on teaching styles, approaches and methods.

Read more and register for free before 19 May 2019.

Great news! The "future plan" for ESD: "Education for Sustainable Development beyond 2019" was approved and adopted at the 206th session of UNESCO's Executive Board. The document was developed after a long participatory process enganging states representatives and stakeholders relevant with ESD from all over the workd in various workshops and meetings and after running an online open consultation process last autumn. The paper provides the goals, the proposed approach, an implementation framework as well as some administrative implication for the application and monitoring of ESD in the countries fully in line with the SDGs and particulalry the SDG 4.7 and Agenda 2030. It covers the period of 2020-2030 and is available at the link:

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000366797.locale=en

New analysis was released on International Women's Day looking at the intersections between gender, education, migration and displacement. It offers a preview of the 2019 Gender Report to be released on July 2019.

THE REPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE.