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Changing Hearts & MindsThe EU DEAR Programme, the SDGs and theEuropeans
Agata SobiechEuropean Commission, Head of Sector DEAR, DG DEVCO B1
The DG DEVCO ‘Development Education & Awareness Raising’ (DEAR) Programme
• Unique in DEVCO: DEAR is the only DEVCO Programme
implemented in the EU: focusing on engaging Europeans
in global development
• Addresses global issues, such as Climate Change, through
informed local action
• Raises awareness of issues of the day, like Migration, in
support of democracy, human rights and the Sustainable
Development Goals
• Has a strong focus on stimulating Youth Action and
participation
DEAR in numbers
• Currently supports 33 projects (with 5 more to come soon)
mainly with Civil Society and Local Authorities
• In 2014-2017 DEAR contributed to
• empowering 4.500 Civil Society Organisations and Local
Authorities to work with the EU citizens on global development
issues;
• enhancing skills of 35.000 teachers to teach about climate
change, migration, responsible consumption and trade, food
production, etc.;
• building up skills of tens of thousands of young people to
actively support global change.
DEAR’s Two Streams of Action
Campaigning & Advocacy
• Projects that motivate Europeans for action, stimulate
behaviour change (e.g. in consumption) or policy
change (e.g. in companies and countries)
Formal & Non-formal Education
• Projects that focus on work with teachers, youth
workers, adult educators, education policy makers -
and learners -, to develop understanding and skills
relevant to global development issues and processes
Bridge 47 is one of 11 projects funded by the DEAR
Programme working in the area of formal and non-
formal education:
• building partnerships across the EU, amongst policy
makers and educators, to promote involvement with
the SDGs
• Albin Keuc
Director of the SLOGA Platform (the Slovenian NGO
network) and member of the Bridge 47 Steering Group
• Brikena Xhomaqi
Director of the Lifelong Learning Platform – European Civil
Society for Education, and a project partner in Bridge 47
• Eleanor Dillon
Bridge 47
• Kyrstie Brown
Bridge 47
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