GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK 2010 – EXTRACURRICULAR PROJECT
GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK 2010 –
EXTRACURRICULAR PROJECT
DIALOGUE WITHOUT FRONTIERS – “FOOD FOR ALL”
I. The aims of the Global Education Week
The Global Education Week encourages pupils and teachers as well
as youth groups to explore educational activities for global
citizenship. It is a matter of addressing issues of diversity and
inequality at the local as well as at the global level with an
understanding of the core issues of global citizenship:
· awareness of the wider world and of our own role as a world
citizens;
· attitudes of respect for diversity and intercultural
communication skills;
· ability to take action to make the world a more equitable and
sustainable place;
· responsibility for our own actions.
II. The aim of the project
The theme chosen for Global Education Week 2009 is “FOOD FOR
ALL”. Climate change, population migration; transgenic production
and the growing dispute of cultivation surfaces for food crops and
bio-fuel are bringing new and dramatic challenges to food security.
More then ever a reflection on sustainable development priorities
is necessary.
This project aims to start a dialogue between students and
teachers from various European countries having as basis this theme
and focusing on biodiversity, bio energy and climate change, world
food situation and water. We intend that, by means of the
activities proposed, to contribute to the change of attitude and to
the raise of awareness among young people concerning these global
issues.
III. Objectives
The specific objectives of the project are:
· raising awareness among high school students concerning global
education issues;
· developing intercultural communication through literature and
visual arts;
· informing the local community about global issues by editing
an online magazine;
· contributing to the change of habits and mentalities of the
members of the target group.
IV. Target group
The project is addressing to the category of high school
students aged 14 to 18 from different European countries. They are
both the direct beneficiaries and the participants to the project.
Indirectly, it aims also at their parents, high school teachers
and, by exhibiting the final products of the project at the local
community.
V. Project stages and activities
1. Biodiversity and ecologic food – November-December 2009
The importance of biological diversity for food security was
reconfirmed in commitment No.3 of the Rome Declaration on Food
Security made at the World Food Summit held in Rome in 1996. The
aim of this activity is to promote the conservation and sustainable
use of biodiversity for food and agriculture.
Activity: digital photos competition. Each photo must have a
title and could have one or more authors as well as a coordinating
teacher. The formats accepted are: .jpg, .bmp, .gif.
2. Bio energy and climate change – January 2010
Bio energy can help rural development both by broadening access
to modern energy and by creating new economic opportunities in
rural areas. The impact on rural development will differ
substantially depending upon whether bio energy is produced for
local consumption or export and on how feed stocks are produced.
Sustainable pro-poor bio energy development could represent an
answer to the needs of the 1.6 billion people who lack access to
electricity and could also improve the lives of 2.4 billion who
rely on traditional biomass which is often inefficient and
unhealthy.
Global forest monitoring represents an attempt to help diminish
climate change. Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
must be reduced. 20 October 2009, Rome - For the first time
worldwide, free and ready-to-use high-resolution satellite data is
now available to monitor forests and help reduce emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation. The world's forests are in
the spotlight as talks for a new climate change deal move towards
an agreement on how to achieve reduced emissions from forests next
December in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is an incontestable link
between climate change and the world’s diminishing food resources
which affect mainly the developing countries.
Activity: newspaper articles. The articles must have 500 words
or less and will be sent online as a Microsoft Word document (font
Times New Roman, 12). They can have one or more authors and a
coordinating teacher.
3. World food situation – February 2010
The issue hunger triggered by the global economic crisis has hit
the poorest people in developing countries hardest, revealing a
fragile world food system in urgent need of reform. The combination
of food and economic crises has pushed the number of hungry people
worldwide to historic levels — more than one billion
people are undernourished. Nearly all the world's undernourished
live in developing countries. In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated
642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger; in
Sub-Saharan Africa 265 million; in Latin America and the Caribbean
53 million; in the Near East and North Africa 42 million; and in
developed countries 15 million.
The aim of this activity is to raise the awareness of the
European people regarding this global issue which would be
materialised in a gradual change of habits and mentalities.
Activity: poster and slogan. The poster will in be an A3 format
and the slogan must be displayed inside the poster’s frame. There
can be one or more authors and a coordinating teacher.
4. Water – March 2010
The new challenges in water management posed by the increase in
population and the pressure to use water resources efficiently mean
that the institutions in charge of water management should be
either reformed or created so that countries are able to cope with
these new demands.
Despite the increase in water use by sectors other than
agriculture, irrigation continues to be the main water user on a
global scale. However, there is an increasing pressure for water to
be used more efficiently in agriculture. On the other hand,
irrigation is regarded as one of the main ways to increase food
production and rural incomes. It is therefore imperative to improve
water management in order to achieve both, high water productivity
and higher rural income.
Activity: advertisement. This last activity of the project
allows more creative space because the advertisement can be either
graphic, video, audio or all three. The formats accepted are: .jpg,
.PDF, .avi, .bmp, .mp3, mp4.
VI. Expected results
· Awareness of the local community concerning global issues,
with a focus on the world food situation;
· Solidarity with the undernourished population of the world,
especially those in Asia and Africa;
· Volunteering projects within the local communities and the
participant schools;
· Social behaviour based on the respect for the human
rights;
VII. Promotion and dissemination
The project will be promoted in each participant country
through:
· campaigns in each participant schools;
· the local mass media;
· a web site as a final product of the project containing an
online magazine with all the products of each stage of the
project;
· exhibitions of the students work;
· students and teachers meetings at every stage of the project
and a final meeting at the end of the project;
· online videoconferences with the participants from different
countries.
VIII. Partners
· County Library “Vasile Voiculescu”, Buzau
· House of Teachers “I. G. Dumitrascu”, Buzau
· ATN Trust Press
· A.P.M. Buzau
· School Inspectorate Buzau
Coordinators:
Magda Coman – [email protected]
Madalina Busoi – [email protected]
DIALOGUE WITHOUT FRONTIERS – “FOOD FOR ALL”
EUROPEAN GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK
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