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"Regional Cooperation and Sustainability in Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education in South East Europe"

  summary of the report:

In his opening speech MARINO OSTINI (State Secretariat for Education and Science, Switzerland) pointed out that his speech didn’t open a conference but a work meeting being part of the ongoing European Year of Citizenship through Education 2005 (EYCE). He summarized history and background of the meeting by looking back at D@dalos’ activities in trying to strengthen regional EDC cooperation in South Eastern Europe (SEE) since 2001.



Held in Fruska Gora
October 28-30, 2005



 final document:

» Recommendations [pdf, 35 kb]

 download the full report:

» Report on the Regional Work Meeting
   (Ragnar Müller)   [pdf, 1,5 MB]

INGRID HALBRITTER (project director of D@dalos Sarajevo and director of Pharos e.V. Stuttgart) continued the opening session by presenting basic information about the work meeting’s main purpose and design. Crucial question was how to make regional cooperation more systematic and efficient.

Halbritter made clear that D@dalos expects the work meeting to elaborate a concrete catalogue of recommendations on how to strengthen EDC in SEE. These recommendations will be signed by the participating organisations - and later on by other organisations as well – and widely spread. To achieve this goal the meeting’s design comprises of three steps:

  • Step 1: Have a close look at the international framework of EDC projects in SEE and discuss about the implementation of these “high politics”. How can the gap between international documents and practical work in SEE be bridged?

  • Step 2: See what’s going on in SEE: Four EDC projects are presented as good practice to stimulate discussion and further exchange of ideas, concepts and material.

  • Step 3: Elaborate the recommendations in four working groups. This step is the most important one.

You can download these recommendations and the full report above ...

The work meeting in Fruska Gora was a follow-up to the 1st Regional EDC Round Table in Sofia in 2003 ... more

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