Global Citizenship blog

Citizenship Foundation has been informed on Friday, 14 August that the European Commission accepted to fund a large scale development education project we are a partner in. The other organisations involved are: Plan UK (lead partner), Partners Bulgaria, Plan Netherlands and other three Plan offices in Africa: Senegal, Kenya and Malawi.

The project will focus on raising awareness on climate change issues by linking schools in all the countries invovled via a website platform. The students will learn from a series of resources on climate change, developed by Plan UK and updated by the Citizenship Foundation and will also receive training on running active citizenship campaigns (based on Citizenship Foundation’s Youth Act model) in their countries. The proejct is to start in January 2010 and will run for three years. Citizenship Foundation will employ a project officer to work on recruiting schools in the UK and supporting the teachers throughout the project.

These are exciting times for the development of international work at Citizenship Foundation! Watch this space for more updates!

On Wednesday, the 26th of November 2008, we organised a cocktail reception celebrating the merger between the Citizenship Foundation and CEWC. Both friends and staff of Citizenship Foundation and friends of CEWC attended this event which had an ‘atmosphere of celebration and excitement about future collaboration’.

This was a fantastic opportunity for those involved in both Citizenship Foundation and CEWC to come together and learn more about each other and create links for the future. We hope that all those who attended had a good time and we look forward to the development of our international work.

The event was very generously hosted by the Commonwealth Foundation in Central London.

From September to November 2008 Citizenship Foundation hosted an international  project called ‘Young Ideas for Europe’. The project, funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung and supported by NEF (Network of European Foundations) aimed to create a space for young people from different countries to meet and discuss about political topics in a European context.

Therefore, 12 students from Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls in Hackney participated in this project where they explored Family-Friendly Policies in the EU, during a series of workshops in their school. Three schools in Germany took part in the project at the same time. 

November 14th 2008 was the last day of a series of workshops where students from Skinners’ participated in a role game where they played the roles of different political parties and they each presented their manifesto for Family-Friendly policies in 2020. The day ended with everybody present voting on their preferred manifesto. The students were able to exchange the results with their German peers on the day. 

The feedback from the students was very positive and we hope that the Citizenship Foundation will be able to be part of such initiatives in the future as well. 

A big thank you goes to Angeline David and Rebecca Warren from Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls for taking the students through the workshops on Family-Friendly policies.

CEWC colleagues are very pleased that the Council for Education in World Citizenship is becoming part of the Citizenship Foundation, and are being welcomed with open arms. I am sure that all colleagues will work to make a success of this new situation, which has great potential.

Les Stratton

Director, Council for Education in World Citizenship

The Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC), since its foundation in 1939, has made major contributions to the citizenship debate, the education of individuals, and to the development of policy and institutions in the United Kingdom. (more…)