Jul
14
to Jul 15

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING OF AWE

  • Google Calendar ICS

@ International People’s College Helsingør, Denmark

AWE is organising its International Council Meeting (ICM) from 14-19 July 2025 at the International People’s College, Helsingør in Denmark.

The Presidency of AWE is happy to invite all AWE chapter, institutional, and individual members, plus other adult educators, sustainable development practitioners, and affiliates to join the event. AWE’s ICM is held every three years. During the five-day gathering, participants enjoy workshops, sharing best practices in education & sustainable development from its members and affiliates, and members conduct the association's business.

Join the ICM along with our members from around the world for the weeklong event dedicated to strengthening the world education movement. This is a unique opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and plan our activities for world education and sustainable development.

Further details like program schedule, cost, accomodation, etc will be available by mid-April.

Reghu Rama Das (India) &

Kirsten Bruun (Denmark)

Co-Chairs of the AWE Presidency.

View Event →
Sep
16
9:00 AM09:00

Online Workshop on SDGs - contributions of AWE

Title: A tribute to the UN General Assembly’s SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)

Summit, 2023: The Association for World Education (AWE) is delivering an online workshop to

highlight, inspire, and support people and communities seeking to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Date: September 16th, 2023

Time: 9.00 - 11.00 am. Eastern Time / 3.00 - 5.00 pm. CET

To Register: Email rex.schade@gmail.com Please register by September 10th.

For More Information Visit AWE’s Website: https://world-education.org/

Program: (Times reflect Eastern Time. Please adjust to your timezone)

9.00: Welcome by hosts, AWE Presidents Kirsten Bruun, Reghu Rama Das

9.05: Introduction to AWE SDG Platform by Rex O. Schade, Vice-president, AWE UN-Committee

9.10: Workshop Moderator, Kirsten Bruun, introduces the program.

9.15: City & Community implementation of the 17 SDGs across all sectors, a partnership project since 2019. ‘Svendborg for the Goals’, by Jakob Erle, Director of IAED & Rex O. Schade, Co-manager in Svendborg, Denmark.

9.30: Sustainable development Practices in Mitraniketan, India with special highlights on Climate Action. By Joint Director Reghu Rama Das, Peoples College, Mitraniketan Trivandrum.

9.45: Changing Values, Changing Societies. AWE three-chapter project: By Alla Nazarova, Vice-president, & Guido De Couvreur Director of Mondo Center, Asmaa Sleem, Vice-President, Egypt. Meeting in Belgium.

10.00: Breakout group discussions.

10.25: Whole group common meeting to share Q & A and POV (questions & answers and point of view)

10.50: Wrapping up by organizers and moderators.

11.00: Ending

• Organisers: AWE UN-Committee, SDG-Teamwork

• AWE has been an NGO since the mid-1970s with consultative status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

• Go to AWE’s website, www.world-education.org for Information about the workshop speakers and an introduction to AWE.

• To register or for more information contact Rex O Schade by email: rex.schade@gmail.com

Download Workshop Details

View Event →
Oct
1
8:30 AM08:30

CELEBRATION OF UN INDIGINIOUS DAY Indigenous People issues - global forum debate

Organised by – AWE UN Committee Association for World Education

The AWE UN-Committee invites you to a version of our focusing on Indigenous Peoples situation among our members and relations in world education. So We will present to you speakers from many places in the world. They will give You a glimpse of their places and how they work in everyday life with indigenous peoples issue. As Rights of Minorities is a UN General Assembly priority this year, AWE dialogue follows throughout 2022/23 up to next years event.

Programme Schedule 1.st October (8.30 am to 10 am EST)
8.30 AM – 8.35 AM – Welcome address by Noel Bonam, President, AWE

8.35 AM – 8.40 AM – Introducing the Theme by Rex O. Schade, AWE UN Co-Chair 8.40 AM – 8.50 AM – Noela Altvater, IP-Speaker from downeast Maine, USA
8.50 AM – 9.00 AM - Anindita Gupta, Speaker from India
9.00 AM – 9.10 AM - Fe Epang Balbin, IP-Speaker from Zambales, Philippines

9.10 AM – 9.20 AM - Peter Birkelung Andersen, Speaker University of Copenhagen, Denmark 9.20 AM – 9.30 AM – Logan Shemena, Speaker from Zambia
10 minutes for preparation time in between 8.30 AM – 9.30 AM
9.30 AM – 10. AM – Q/A & Discussion Session

10 AM – Concluding observation & thanks.

AWE UN-Committee organisers of the event:

Rex O. Schade, Denmark
Alla Nazarova, Russia / Belgium Sujit Kumar Paul, India

Please register ASAP by clicking Register above.

Zoom address will be send to you evening Friday 30 September

On behalf AWE UN-Committee workshop organisers:

Rex O. Schade

Alla Nazarova,

Sujit Kumar Paul

View Event →
Jul
2
10:00 AM10:00

Global Challenges - Local Answers

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the 193 member nations of the United Nations as the common agenda for the future. The nations have to fulfil the goals by 2030 to ensure a good life for all. This will only happen if the local communities all over the world do their part - use the SDGs as an agenda for strong sustainable local communities.

View Event →
May
25
4:30 PM16:30

Book Launch! Trauma-Responsive Schooling: Centering Student Voice and Healing

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Trauma- Responsive Schooling: Centering Student Voice and Healing. The book reports the results of a multi-year research project in rural Maine schools, initiated and funded by the Cobscook Institute, and designed and implemented by Trauma Responsive and Equitable Education (TREE). The authors focus on whole-school change, encouraging educators to upend traditional classroom power dynamics by listening foremost to student voices, validating student experiences, and promoting student agency.

Attendees can use discount code TRSB22 at checkout when they order Trauma-Responsive Schooling through the HEP website. They will receive 20% off, and this offer lasts until 6/26/22.

Lyn Mikel Brown is Professor of Education at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Catharine Biddle is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maine.

Mark Tappan is Professor of Education at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

View Event →
International Human Rights Day: Workshop on Dilemmas with teaching tools
Dec
10
7:00 PM19:00

International Human Rights Day: Workshop on Dilemmas with teaching tools

Online Workshop Series “teaching global citizenship” for lifelong learners, students and educators. The purpose of this series of workshop is to create interactive connections between participants from different regions of the world about global issues that are relevant to World Education, and to inspire participant to include global subjects and themes in daily practice of education and lifelong learning.

This will be the 4th workshop in the Workshop Series “How to teach global citizenship” and the topic for this workshop will be “Dilemmas with teaching tools.”

Please return to this page later for further details.

 

View Event →
Oct
30
3:00 PM15:00

AWE United Nation Committee online session and dialogue/ Topic: Indigenous People and Sustainability

8fc51a12f1.jpg

This is a unique opportunity for the first time in AWE history, to experience and listen to speakers about Indigenous people from three places in the world: Brazil, Maine USA, Philippines.

 The AWE UN Committee has wished for a long time that the one-year anniversary of our learning online programme about Global Citizenship and Education for Sustainability should have a certain and new content. 

This workshop provides a forum for participants to listen as representatives of each region share storylines and then discuss together, about the similarities and differences between their regions. 

 It is a learning opportunity for us all.  

You are invited!

We, the organizers, look forward to seeing you!

Rex O. Schade, Denmark, Alan Furth, USA

Alla Nazarova, Russia, Ana Maria Barros Pinto, Brazil, Sabith Kumar Pillai, India


REGISTER HERE:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYlS4AG2EovKZ_PfPOtBiTMxq66xI792erNKHsQboOF-cFqA/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.2092238618=Sabith&entry.479301265=India&entry.588393791=English&entry.1753222212=AWE+member


View Event →
Web seminar: The understanding of democracy around the world
Sep
19
8:00 AM08:00

Web seminar: The understanding of democracy around the world

Web seminar to mark the Day of Democracy: The understanding of democracy around the world

Program

9.00 – 9.05 Welcome by host – Alla Nazarova (Russia)

9.05 – 9.10 Video introduction

9.10 – 9.50 Session 1

9.10 – 9.20 Rikke Schultz, Teacher of continuing education, local community leader (Denmark)

9.20 – 9.30 Questions and answers

9.30 – 9.40 Ediсio Dela Torre, Educator (Philippines)

9.40 – 9.50 Questions and answers

9.50 – 10.00 Sharing the experience of the participants.

Please write in the chat the answer to the question:

How can you practice democracy in your own community - as a family member, a teacher, an employee or

a neighbor?

10.00 – 10.40 Session 2

10.00 – 10.20 Kara McCrimmon, Director Cobscook Experiential Institute (US)

10.20 – 10.30 Questions and answers

10.30 – 10.40 Garba Diallo, Director Crossing Borders NGO (Denmark)

10.40 – 10.50 Questions and answers

10.50 – 11.20 Free microphone for exchange of opinions, comments, recommendations.

11.20 – 11.25 Wrap up

REGISTER FOR FREE

Link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYlS4AG2EovKZ_PfPOtBiTMxq66xI792erNKHsQboOF-

cFqA/viewform?usp=pp_url

View Event →
Anniversary Party!
Aug
22
9:00 AM09:00

Anniversary Party!

You are invited to join a virtual party to celebrate the anniversary of the

ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION (AWE was initiated in 1970 and formally established in 1974! We are 50 years out from the exciting time of imagining and designing AWE into being!)  

Please join in a global celebration as AWE’s global family gathers together to exchange memories, joyful moments, songs and stories from over the years, and together, to look into the future of this  important and dynamic organization!

REGISTER FOR FREE  (On or before August 20th, 2021)

Programme

9.00   Welcome– Moderator/host Alan Furth (US)

9.05   Inauguration

9.10    Greetings by the President of AWE- Noël Bonam (US)  

9.20    Greeting and Storytelling

  • Former AWE President, Ove Korsgaard (Denmark)

  • Fatima Kabir (Bangladesh)

  • Edicio dela Torre (Philippines)

9.40   Song and a presentation by Roberto Nicolasora (Philippine)

9.45   Storytelling

  • Rikke Schultz (Denmark)

  • Sujit  Kumar Paul (India)

  • Rosa Lavecchia (Argentina)

10.00   Video- Indian song 

 10.05   Storytelling

  • Reghu Rama Das (India)

  • Anna Maria Barros Pinto (Brazil) 

  • Jakob Erle (Denmark)

10.20    A song by Alan Furth 

10.25    Storytelling

  • Rex Schade (Denmark)

  • Kirsten Bruun (Denmark)

  • Guido – Henri De Couvreur (Belgium)

10.40   Video- Russian song 

10.45   Letters to the future AWE 

10.55   Open Microphone (for sharing wishes, stories and impressions) Moderator - Alan Furth.

11.25   Wrap up by President of AWE, Noël Bonam (US). 

At the end of the programme, please be prepared to light a candle or to turn on the flash-light on your phone

REGISTER FOR FREE  (On or before August 20th, 2021)

View Event →
Plenary: “Local Action for Global Goals”
Jun
27
9:00 AM09:00

Plenary: “Local Action for Global Goals”

This Global Online Plenary is hosted by the UN Committee of the Association for World Education. It will highlight local action for global goals from Denmark, Egypt, India and Russia. The purpose of this webinar is to inspire and exchange ideas on what one can do for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in one’s own community and region. We have invited educators and change agents from across the world to participate in this interactive global platform. This plenary will be moderated by Sujit Kumar Paul, Head of Department, Lifelong Learning and Extension at the Visva Bharati International University (Shantiniketan), West Bengal, India.

Speakers: Jakob Erle + Rex O. Scade (Denmark) Khaled Soliman (Egypt) Sabith L.K. Pillai (India) Alla Nazarova (Russia)

Sunday, JUNE 27, 2021 from 9.00 AM (Eastern Standard Time)

9 AM EST (UTC - 5) | 3 PM Europe CET (UTC +1) | 3 PM Egypt (UTC +1) | 4 PM Moscow (UTC +2) | 6:30 PM India (UTC + 5:30) | 9 PM Philippines (UTC +8)

REGISTER HERE (Please register before Friday, June 25, 2021)

__________________________________________________________________

PROGRAMME/SCHEDULE

9.00 AM  Welcome Message & Opening Remarks by Noël Bonam, Global President, Association for World Education (AWE)

PART ONE: EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

9.10 AM  Sustainable Community Development:Integrated/targeted approaches, outcomes, sustainabilityexperiences and lessons learned: grassroots level action in India that integrated & targeted sustainable community development projects. Speaker: Sabith K L, Sustainability Project Coordinator (India)

 9.25 AM   The relationship between local development and the overarching UN agenda: A presentation of a comprehensive joint project between the Danish Chapter of the Association for World Education, International Academy for Education and Democracy (IAED) and the Svendborg Kommune (City of Svendborg), Denmark. Learn about the work that goes into building such partnerships and about the many layers to consider. Speakers: Jakob Erle, Director, International Academy for Education and Democracy (IAED) and Rex O. Schade, Vice-Chairman, AWE Denmark + Chairman, AWE UN Committee

9.40AM  Interactive Segment: Questions, Answers & Comments

PART TWO: YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

10.00 AM   Skills for life and for self-sufficiency:Youth in cities in upper Egypt lack essential services and job opportunities. An Egyptian NGO founded by young university graduates, Benaa NGOis launching “Start Your Project” program to train youth in entrepreneurship skills. This program will enable youth to establish new startups and create new job opportunities that can address sustainable development goals such as poverty, hunger, health and education. Speaker: Khaled Soliman, Founding Member of Benaa, Egypt

 10.15 AM   International Partnerships for Global Worldview of Youth: Gain insights into how organized international exchange seminars can develop the worldview of youth, their understanding of democracy and their recognition of universal human values; helping to overcome the "fences" in the mind and finding their own path to global citizenship. Speaker: Alla Nazarova, Vice President of the Association for World Education (Moscow, Russia)

10.30AM  Interactive Segment: Questions, Answers & Comments

10.50AM  Presentations from Interactive Segments

11.00AM  Group Discussion 

11.25AM  Closing note and conclusions by Noël Bonam, Global President, Association for World Education (AWE)

REGISTER HERE (Please register before Friday, June 25, 2021)

__________________________________________________________________

SOCIAL INTERACTION TIME (11.30 AM – 12.00 PM)

If you have the time and if you are interested, please join us in the social interaction time after the official wrap-up of the plenary. It is an informal section with no agenda. You have the opportunity to interact with participants from around the world in an informal manner. DO JOIN US!

View Event →
Local-Global SDG Project in Svendborg, Denmark
May
30
8:00 AM08:00

Local-Global SDG Project in Svendborg, Denmark

This presentation is a terrific opportunity to learn about how a local NGO is partnering with one of the towns in Denmark to increase awareness about SDGs with inclusive tools and methodologies to provide the town of Svendborg (Denmark) a comprehensive partnership towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations.

This is a collaborative project between the Danish Chapter of the Association for World Education, the International Academy for Education and Democracy (IAED) and the City of Svendborg, Denmark.

Learn directly from the management team (Jakob Erle and Rex Schade) about how they will collaborate and work closely with local change agents and entrepreneurs operating to directly impact local communities and learn about how such a project could be replicated in your own region across the world.

Sunday, May 30, 2021 - 8 am EST | 2 pm CET | 5.30 pm IST | 8 pm PHT | 9 pm JST

Email sabithlk@gmail.com to register and to receive Zoom’s log-in details for this interactive presentation.

View Event →
Global Online Conference: Global Education Policy for Total Consciousness
May
22
to May 24

Global Online Conference: Global Education Policy for Total Consciousness

The Association for World Education is supporting the global endeavor of the Global Energy Parliament (GEP) through the Global Conference on Visualizing Global Education Policy for Total Consciousness.

From May 22-24, 2021, the GEP's Global Education Commission will host an online conference where the international community can hear and interact with experts in education from all over the world. The Commission invites you to help create a Global Education Policy that achieves fundamental, integrated and humanistic education around the world. The Global Education Policy would be rooted in the best of today’s educational philosophies, scientific thought, and modern practices, and adaptable to differences of geography, culture, economics, language, ability, and belief. 

Rather than more divisions and narrow interests, we want to see the shared human experience bring everyone together. The next generations should be empowered to realize the interconnectedness of all life, energy and consciousness. Expert Groups in the Commission, consisting of passionate specialists in education, will develop a holistic vision of education and steps for its implementation in various contexts.

If you are interested in new ideas and new policies for education, you can register now and receive updates about the Commission and the Conference. Whether you are an academic, a researcher in education, a policy maker, a principal, a teacher, a student, a parent, or just interested in education, we welcome you!

View Event →
Workshop: How to live in peaceful coexistence?
May
16
10:00 AM10:00

Workshop: How to live in peaceful coexistence?

Online Workshop Series “teaching global citizenship” for lifelong learners, students and educators. The purpose of this series of workshop is to create interactive connections between participants from different regions of the world about global issues that are relevant to World Education, and to inspire participant to include global subjects and themes in daily practice of education and lifelong learning.

This is the third workshop in the series and the topic aligns with the goals of the International Day of Living Together in Peace and the International Day of Light. This specific workshop will be an introduction to the difference between inner and outer peace and a presentation of different peace models that can help us to reach peaceful coexistence.

To register for the event, please email Sabith Kumar of the Education Committee at sabithlk@gmail.com

View Event →
Mar
21
10:00 AM10:00

Global workshop on Global Citizenship Program

For lifelong learners, students and educators from across the world      

|10 AM EST (UTC -5)| 3 PM Europe CET (UTC +1) | 4 PM Egypt (UTC +2) 
| 5 PM Moscow (UTC +3)| 7:30 PM India (UTC + 5:30) |

IMG_5226.jpeg

Workshop: “How to teach global citizenship” Topic No. 2 - "Human Rights"

The purpose of this series of workshop is to create interactive connections between participants from different regions of the world about global issues important for World Education, and to inspire participant to include global subjects in daily education and studies.
This specific workshop will be an introduction to The Human Right Declaration, adopted by UN in 1948, signed by almost 192 nations and translated into 500 languages.

10.00 (UCT -5)
Welcome - Tjeck in by host Kirsten Bruun, Denmark

10.05
The history of the human right declaration
PowerPoint presentation by Nikita Dronov, student from Russia

10.20
Break-out rooms
Short presentation of the participants
Sharing views: What is the most important human right for me? In my country? In my life?
What are the biggest challenges of the universal human rights today in our daily lives?
Facilitator, notetaker and reporter to plenum

10.40
Plenum led by the host.
Reports from the break-out rooms

10.55 Human rights and values, moderator Jakob Erle
Introduction to a small video by moderator 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgIVseTkuE

11.05 moderator Jakob Erle
What are some of the important points raised in the video?
Input from facilitators: India, Egypt, Russia, Philippines and Denmark (max 3. Minutes each)

11.20 Break-out rooms
What are some of the challenges we have in combining universal human values with country and local values?
Is there a contradiction between the human right declaration and country and local values?

11.35 Plenum
Reports from the break-out rooms
The Facilitators and participants are sharing reflection How can we support our common/ Universal rights and values?
Synthesis by moderator 

11.55 Wrap up by Host Kirsten Bruun

12.00 – 12.30
Hang-out room for further discussion in plenum.

  

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. 

Read more here: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

About Presenter Nikita Dronov

01 Dronov Nikita_gray.jpg

My name is Nikita Dronov, I am from Moscow, Russia and I study Urban Planning student at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. 

As for my environmental background, I used to be a part of student environmental organization for 1.5 years, during which I participated in Ecological seminar in Belgium (under the auspices of AWE), Russia Youth Environmental Program (RYEP) in the US and in a range of local events and forums.
Recently I stepped into a new sphere and started a career in commercial real estate as an analyst and   data manager.

 

 

REGISTER FOR FREE latest on Thursday 18th March, 2021. 

Click Register at the top of the page.

Max 6 participants per country or chapter. First come, first served.

View Event →