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The main purpose of the Humanitas Association is to raise awareness about global interdependence and the role individuals play in the world by educating and informing about global challenges. By promoting solidarity, responsibility, justice, and respect for human rights, they want to encourage people, especially youngsters, to actively participate and co-create a society based on social and environmental justice.
The Humanitas Association conducts interactive workshops for pupils and students; seminars and trainings for teachers, representatives of NGOs and others. They also organize various events aimed at raising public awareness about social and environmental challenges requiring different approaches to solving them. In the field of global learning, they develop various teaching aids, interactive exhibitions, and theater plays.
In the program to support children and local communities they liaised with organizations from Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Kenya. In collaboration with them they support children on their educational journey and implement projects aimed at local communities.
Over the next three years, programs in the area of global education and development cooperation will be intertwined so that their effects are mutually reinforcing. They will focus on six key areas: active citizenship, the environment, migration, development, human rights and interculturalism, thus ensuring an in-depth and broad coverage of global learning. Programs in both areas will be implemented in close partnership with other actors in the field of global learning and development cooperation, especially in Europe and Africa.
Gender equality is a relevant policy parker since field of work of Humanitas in projects if global learning and fair trade includes equal pay and equal opportunity of work.
Summary of project results
By strengthening and connecting the fields of development cooperation and global learning, which engages not only cognitive but also affective, relational, and existential dimensions of the learning process, we at Humanitas aim to reach more individual learners and equip them to actively and successfully confront challenging, difficult, and even uncomfortable knowledge. With greater support for teachers in the Global Learning Club, we will more easily address their need to incorporate the global dimension into school curricula, a process which the Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport (MIZŠ) began this year. We will strengthen our role at the national level, strive for greater recognition of Global Learning (GU) in both formal and informal learning environments, and in this way encourage active citizenship in the style of "providing support so that support will no longer be needed." With the upgrading of the "House of Worlds" space and other activities, we aim not only to strengthen the awareness-raising and educational function but also to offer space for those groups with little social power, supporting and empowering them to advocate for a fairer society based on the full and equal realization of human rights and the acceptance of social diversity as a value.
During the implementation of the strategy, some of the activities that were carried out included: coordination of the Global Learning Teachers'' Club, printing the Humanitas collection of global learning methods, preparing a special online classroom; establishing 3 online educational platforms with a wide range of teaching materials for educators: the Culpeer4change Platform. We organized several training sessions for young people to strengthen their capacities in the field of global learning, theater methods for inclusive culture, as well as advocacy and preparation of their own local actions (e.g., a 3-day trainers'' training, a 6-day mobility in Vienna, a 3-day mobility in Vienna). We established numerous new collaborations with schools and universities and also raised public awareness about the importance of global learning, thus strengthening the recognition of global learning in the wider public through a series of media contributions.
As part of the achieved results, we strengthened the operation of the Global Learning Teachers'' Club (number of members: 98, number of teachers enrolled in the online classroom: 271; number of published materials: 59). We empowered young people for global learning - number of youth initiatives carried out: 49. We strengthened cooperation with schools, establishing as many as 61 new collaborations. We strengthened the operation of the House of Worlds - number of new materials: a total of 160, number of loans: 1,210, number of events: 22, and number of visitors: approximately 776.