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North-South Centre's mandate: provide a framework for North-South co-operation to increase public awareness of global interdependence issues and promote policies of solidarity in conformity with the aims and principles of the Council of Europe.

The News (Site updated on 5 November, 2009)

Training Course for Youth Leaders of the African Diaspora Living in Europe 6 – 12 December 2009 – Almada, Lisbon, Portugal - Call for Participants
Youth organisations and youth groups from the African Diaspora living in Europe are fundamental actors for the Euro-African Youth Cooperation. The Youth from the African Diaspora was a key participatory element in the process leading to the Africa Europe Youth Summit and the Summit itself.
. Call for participants
. Application Form

Lisbon Forum 2009
The main aim of the 2009 Lisbon Forum  will be to promote the creation of a culture of human rights, through “quadrilogue” action, i.e. governments, parliamentarians, local and regional authorities and civil society.
This year the Forum will take place on 13-14 of November, in the Centre Ismaili in Lisbon, Portugal. more.
. Lisbon Forum 2009 annoted programme
See also: Forum on Human Rights Education with and for Young People which was held from 15 to 17 October in Budapest and Strasbourg.
. More...
. Forum Website
World Aware Education Award - 2009 edition
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe has launched the World Aware Education Awards (WAEA). The WAEA seek to recognise and encourage initiatives which display excellence or innovation in networking, partnership and coordination for increased and improved global education. Laureate projects have been nominated.
. More about WAEA
 
National seminar on Global/Development Education in Bulgaria
On 25-27 September 2009 a national seminar to promote global/development education in Bulgaria  took place in Sozopol at the Black Sea.
. more information
 
University on Youth and Development 2009
Last week, while the North-South Centre Mollina University on Youth & Development successfully provided a challenging training environment for hundreds of youth leaders coming from all corners of the world, a new stimulating environment through the newly established web page was implemented. We are happy to invite you to have a taste of this  University special webpage.  
About the University...
. Interview of Mr. Denis Huber, Executive Director of the North-South Centre on the occasion of the launch of the University on Youth and Development
. Programme of the UYD 2009
. Presentation of the course Global Youth Work
. University on Youth and Development 2008 : final report

Visit of a delegation of "The European Wergeland Centre" to the North-South Centre in Lisbon on 6 October
The team of the North-South Centre had the pleasure to welcome a delegation of the  The European Wergeland Centre on 6 October. The visit was an opportunity for the two institutions to have an indepth and fruitful exchange of views on prospects for future co-operation.
. more

Outcomes of the first African University on Youth and Development
In the frame of its Africa Europe Youth cooperation programme, the North-South Centre has launched the first African University on Youth and Development . more...
. Agenda
. Outcomes of the University
. Final declaration
. Apresentação da Universidade Juventude & Desenvolvimento
Africa Europe Training Course for youth Organisations
. Presentation
. Outcomes

 
Calendar activities of the North-South Centre for 2009
. PDF document
. Interim Activity Report (1 January- 29 september)


North-South Centre Publications
 

Lisbon Forum 2008
The North-South Centre is happy to announce that the publication "Lisbon Forum 2008", is now available.
If you want to receive more information about this publication, please contact us: nscinfo@coe.int.

Global Education Guidelines
The North-South Centre is happy to announce that the Global Education Guidelines, a handbook for Educators to understand and implement Global Education, is now available on-line. more...


 
White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue in Portuguese
The Portuguese version of the White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue of the Council of Europe, produced by the North-South Centre, is now available. It contains a preface by Jorge Sampaio, UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, and will be presented for the first time during the 2nd  Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations that will take place on 6-7 April in Istanbul.
more ...

Focus

Global and Euro-African Youth Cooperation on top of the agenda of the North-South Centre activities
. National seminar on Global/Development Education in Estonia - Vihula Manor 6-7 November
. National seminar on Global/Development Education in Latvia - Riga 6 November
. Second Meeting of the Monitoring Group Africa Europe Youth Cooperation and East Africa Seminar on Youth Policies and the African Youth Charter:
- Draft agenda of 2nd  Meeting,  Addis Ababa 30th and 31st of October 2009
- Draft programme
Statements by the Chair of the North-South Centre, Mrs. Deborah Bergamini:
- on the occasion of the re-election of Mr. José Manual Barroso as President of the European Commission
 . Declaration
- concerning Morocco's membership to the North-South Centre on 1 July 2009
  . Statement by the Chair of the Executive Council concerning Morocco's membership to the North-South Centre
- on the occasion of the International Youth Day,
 Declaration
- on the adoption of the law criminalizing domestic violence in Pakistan
 Declaration
- concerning the situation in Iran
. Declaration








Queen Rania of Jordan and Jorge Sampaio receive the 2008 North-South Prize   more...
. Special link to the awarding ceremony & speeches
. North-South Prize ceremony video

Council of Europe news
Thorbjørn Jagland to speak at Google event in Berlin
The Secretary General was one of the keynote speaker at “Breaking Borders “, an event on freedom of expression on the Internet that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on the 3 November. During the event, Google launched a YouTube channel on freedom of expression.
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Thorbjørn Jagland elected Secretary General of the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly on 29 September elected Thorbjørn Jagland (Norway) Secretary General of the Organisation for a five-year term.
. More...
 
Intercultural cities in Japan
Intercultural cities programme representatives will visit Japan on 1-6 November. They will present the European model for intercultural integration of migrants and minorities and study Japan’s experience with 'multicultural symbiosis' (Tabunka-kyosei).
. More...
. Intercultural cities programme





The commemorative ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe took place at the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg on 1 October
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. Photo gallery
 
 
 

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