Description
The project addresses the need to introduce the so-called global education in the secondary school curriculum. The project aims at gaining support for global education by raising the awareness of students and boosting teachers’ competence. First, global education will be presented to the Regional education Inspectorates and school management in the cities of Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv. Then 10 pilot schools will be identified to take part in the project. Second, the attitudes of students and teachers in the 10 schools will be studied in depth through focus groups and interviews. Third, 30 teachers will be trained in global education and teaching techniques. Fourth, 40 lessons will be held to introduce global education in extracurricular activities. Finally, the school teams will be provided with supervision. The project will benefit the students and teachers involved, the school management, education authorities and the public in general.
Summary of project results
The project aimed at casting light on and analyzing the work of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in three areas: the nomination of administrative heads, random distribution of cases and the professional ethics of magistrates. These three areas are of key importance for the reform of the judiciary and Bulgaria’s efforts to reinstate the rule of law but they are rarely targeted by the media. The survey carried out by the project team provided SJC with the assessment of the status of the three specific subjects, the main issues and deficiencies, reasons and conditions for their emergence and development and recommendations to overcome them. The project raised the level of actual awareness of the society about the processes in the judiciary as well as enhanced civic control over the decision-making institutions. The database developed by the organization was widely used by the media, investigative journalists and NGOs, all of them working on their own interpretation of the subjects or exchanging expertise with the organization’s team. Some of the publications on the website Judicial Reports stirred institutional response as well as grounds for debating the good governance of the judiciary. The information collected and analyzed by the organization’s team about the work of SJC was presented in a comprehensive report summing up the main deficiencies in the administration of the judiciary with regard to the three subjects. As a result of the monitoring of SJC, the judicial body responsible for human resources, more than 300 papers, analyses and investigations related to the three subjects were prepared and published on the website of Judicial Reports. For more information, please, visit:
www.judicialreports.bg
Summary of bilateral results