The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe 2024 Thematic Seminar

The benefits of an intercultural and holistic approach to education for sustainable development: a North-South perspective. University of Malta. 19 April 2024.

The Global Education thematic seminar is part of iLEGEND III: Intercultural Learning Exchange through Global Education, Networking and Dialogue (2023-2026), a Joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe: co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. 

The seminar was attended by policymakers, practitioners, and speakers, including members of the Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL).

More information can be found via this link.

Webinar and Dialogue at the Université Laval

Université Laval (Laval University) is the oldest French-language university in North America, located in Québec City, Canada.

The Ikeda Study Center for Global Citizenship, Dialogue and Peace Education hosted a webinar on February 2nd, 2024 discussing value-creating global citizenship education for sustainable development, with a focus on the educational ideas of the Indian political leader and educator, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Japanese educators, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Daisaku Ikeda.

Symposium panel at the ECER 2023 conference in Glasgow covered in the Seikyo newspaper in Japan

On 24th August 2023 a symposium titled “Global Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Hope” was held at a conference organized by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) on themes related to #interculturaleducation #socialjustice #sokaeducation #globalcitizenshipeducation and #sustainability

Access the Seikyo newspaper article published on 2nd September 2023 via this link, also copied below.

Symposium at ANGEL-UNESCO conference covered in the Seikyo newspaper in Japan

On 20th June 2023 a symposium titled “Global Citizenship Education and Sustainability: Engaging the Earth Charter and Value-Creating Perspectives” was held at a conference organized by the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Conference materials can be found here. Symposium covered by the Seikyo newspaper in Japan – full article below.

Dialogues on Value-Creating Education, Global Citizenship, and Sustainability at the Université Laval’s Ikeda Center.

Symposium, “The Keys to an Effective Dialogue for World Peace in an International Context of Competition,” 28 April, 2023.

Click here for a link to the film mentioned in this presentation; for audio version click here; also see this clip.

Symposium, “Global Citizenship, Dialogue and Peace,” 16-17 May, 2022.

More information on the Ikeda Center for Education in Global Citizenship, Dialogue and Peace can be found here.