GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK NETWORK
EVALUATION SEMINAR
21-22 March 2009
Hotel Benczur
Budapest, Hungary
AGENDA
Saturday 21 March
Morning session
9.00 Welcome session
10.00 Global Education Week 2008 overview
sharing good practices in working groups and plenary
Workshop 1, participants split into working groups to evaluate GEW 2008 and assess : activities & stakeholders involved; partnership between formal & non-formal education; campaigning; theme.
Educators working group
Civil society working group
National authorities working group
11.00 - 11.30 Coffe-break
11.30 Working groups rapporteurs feed-back on GEW 2008
12.00 Global Education Week evaluation criteria
Reviewing critically the NSC GEW evaluation form, assessing its adaptability, while taking stock of examples of evaluation practice from national coordinators and Global Education Guidelines recommendations on evaluation.
Outcomes
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session
14.30 Improving national networking mechanisms and local partnerships: GEW network coordinators working strategy at national level.
Workshop 2
. GE national platforms & GEW national websites
. working with local authorities & media
. coordination with local international organisations representations (CoE information offices, UNESCO, OHCHR, MDGs, EU Dev. Days, EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue)
. GEW network expansion within CoE boundaries and beyond
Educators working group
Civil society working group
National authorities working group
16.00 Working groups rapporteurs feed-back & plenary discussion
17.30 – 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 World Aware Education Awards ceremony
19.30 Free networking
20.00 Dinner
Sunday 22 March
Morning session
9.30 Global Education Guidelines follow-up strategy
Workshop 3
10.30 Working groups rapporteurs feed-back & plenary discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 Presentation of the Global Education on-line training course process
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon session
14.15
GEW network / NSC working strategy, consultative processes for 2009:
Workshop 4
. GEW evaluation
. GEW event
. GEW central event during the European Development Days
While the theme for the Global Education Week 2008 was confirmed to be Intercultural Dialogue and the selection of the motto was left up to the national coordinators to select, for the Global Education Week 2009, it was agreed that the theme would be Food for All. As to Global Education Week 2010, it was agreed that the theme would be related to the International decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). It was established that the choice of a motto did not exclude the possibility to adapt its wording in order to facilitate its understanding and impact to the national context.
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 Plenary : seminar sum-up & outcomes
. Evaluation criteria and indicators for the assessment of GEW implementation strategies;
. Preparation of GEW 2009 (sharing result of workshops in plenary) + theme choosing process for 2011 and suggestions for a central event in the context of the European Development Days (under the auspices of the Global Education Week)
. GEW webpage & GE electronic newsletter
18.00 Seminar evaluation
20.00 Dinner