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A Euro-Med Civil Society Lab to support youth participation in democratic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean.
At the occasion of the Launching Event of the fifth phase of the South Programme : "Protecting human rights, rule of law and democracy through shared standards in the Southern Mediterranean", taking place in Lisbon, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe gathers a group of fourteen...
The protection of all women is a priority.
On International Women's Day, it is important to reaffirm our shared commitment to combating gender-based power inequalities, which underlie violence against women worldwide. We must ensure that women are protected from all forms of violence, exploitation, and abuse. The Council of Europe's...
Spain makes a voluntary contribution to the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
The Government of Spain has made a voluntary contribution of €30,000 to support the project “PEACE YP: Promoting Euro-Africa Cooperation to Enhance Youth Participation for Peace” and another one of €20,000 to contribute to the project “All informed-All concerned: Promoting diversity and...
The Training Course on Global Education and Media will welcome 30 participants. Apply to be one of them!
Part of the iLegend III project, the training course aims at providing participants with new skills and competences on Global Education, Media Literacy and Digital Citizen Education. It targets education practitioners in the formal and non-formal sector, media professionals and state and...
The Council of Europe and the European Union renew their joint commitment to strengthening the principles and methodologies of Global Education.
Implemented by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, and building on previous editions of the project, iLEGEND III is co-funded by the Council of Europe and the European Union in the framework of the Development Education and Awareness-Raising Programme (DEAR). This new project aims to...
Malta makes a voluntary contribution to the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
The Government of Malta has made a voluntary contribution of €30 000 to support the project “PEACE YP: Promoting Euro-Africa Cooperation to Enhance Youth Participation for Peace”, which is implemented by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe part of the Youth Cooperation Programme. The...
This year's Lisbon Forum is dedicated to the current state of international cooperation, and brings together voices for peace, cooperation and solidarity.
On 13 December 2022, experts, activists and decision-makers will meet for the 28th edition of the Lisbon Forum to discuss the state of play of international co-operation. It will be an opportunity to assess the impact of the different crises such as the war in Ukraine, and the new geopolitical...
Launch of the Global Education Week 2022 : large mobilisation across Europe and beyond to promote solidarity and fairness through education.
From 14 to 20 November practitioners and citizens are organising and attending thousands of activities online and onsite with a common goal: raising awareness for a more sustainable and equitable World. The Global Education Week (GEW) is an annual Worldwide awareness raising initiative unfolding...
The African University on Youth and Development 2022 will take place in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, from 22 to 25 November.
The African University on Youth and Development (AUYD) will take place in the fourth week of November, gathering over 100 youth workers, youth leaders, decision makers, field experts, and institutional representatives in Cape Verde. Since its creation in 2009, the African University on Youth and...
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe visits the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
On the occasion of an official visit to Portugal and her participation in the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe Award Ceremony, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić, visited today for the first time in her mandate the North-South Centre's premises. Her visit took place following the...
Youth Initiatives 2022: Global Education promoted through seven projects developed by youth multipliers.
In the framework of the project “iLEGEND II: Intercultural Learning Exchange through Global Education, Networking and Dialogue (2019-2022)”, Joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe for the promotion of Global Education/Global Development Education (GE/GDE), seven Follow-up...
Global Education Week 2022: let’s take action in November to promote solidarity and fairness through education.
The Global Education Week is back! The 2022 edition will take place from 14 to 20 November, and will be an opportunity to support and promote Global Education, as a call and a tool for dialogue and peace to present and future generations. The Global Education Week is a world-wide awareness...
Award Ceremony of the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe to take place on 18 October 2022.
The 2021 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe award ceremony will take place in Lisbon at the Assembleia da República of Portugal, October 18th, 12.00 UTC+1 and will be webcasted on the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe website. The Prize will be awarded to the Covax Mechanism,...
The University on Youth and Development will take place in Spain next week.
The University on Youth and Development (UYD) will resume this September, gathering in Mollina (Spain) more than 230 youth workers, youth leaders, decision makers, experts from the field and institutional representatives. Since the year 2000, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe...
Deadline: 30 September 2022
Call for partners to integrate the programme of the African University on Youth and Development 2022
Following a hiatus of a few years, the African University on Youth and Development will resume next November, relaunching the North-South Centre’s activities in the area of Africa-Europe Youth Cooperation. It was the year 2007 when the NSC co-organised in Lisbon the first ever Africa-Europe...
On International Youth Day, we celebrate young people's commitment to the future with the new media literacy toolkit!
After a collective reflection on Information and Communication Technologies, media, digitalisation and Global Education, involving the members of the Media Literacy Task Force for Global Education, and in the framework of the iLegend project, the Media Literacy for Global Education Toolkit for...
The 2022 Women Empowerment conference for the protection of girls.
On Thursday 29 June, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe welcomed experts from civil society, governments, and international organisations in Lisbon, to discuss protection challenges and opportunities for cooperation around the issue of violence against girls in the Euro-Mediterranean...
North-South Centre of the Council of Europe’s Executive Committee new mandates.
Last Friday, on its 27th meeting, the Executive Committee of the North-South Centre elected by consensus its new Chair, Vice-Chair, and members of the Bureau for the next two years. The Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe, H.E. Ambassador Lorenzo Vella, is the new Chair of...
Participate online in the next Women's Empowerment Programme conference and mobilise for the protection of girls.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are subjected to practices that harm them physically and psychologically. The lack of legal provisions regarding the minimum age of marriage, the critical rise of violence against girls in humanitarian settings, and the lack of public...
Online registration is now open for the Pan European Congress on Global Education!
For more than 20 years, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe advocates for Global Education and Citizenship through intercultural and peer-to-peer learning approaches, providing competences for moving towards peaceful and sustainable societies. In the current global context, where...
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe launches its first podcast series and pursue the discussion on intercultural dialogue in the infodemic era!
At the last Lisbon Forum, five hundred participants from eighty-five countries explored the role of intercultural dialogue in countering misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. As stressed at the time by the director of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, Ambassador Afonso...
Call for activities to integrate the Programme of the University on Youth and Development 2022.
After two years of interruption, the University on Youth and Development (UYD) will resume from 11 to 18 September 2022 in Mollina (Spain). The UYD is an international youth event organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, where a number of youth-led and youth-oriented...
Call for Nominations for the 2022 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.
We are pleased to invite you to propose nominations for the 2022 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe. The candidates (activists, personalities or organisations) must have distinguished themselves in the following areas: protection of human rights, defence of pluralist democracy, ...
Interested in organising a project to promote Global Education among youth? Apply for a grant to support its implementation!
Part of the project iLEGEND II, The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe launches a call for proposals to support the implementation of Follow-up Youth Initiatives to be carried out by participants of the online/residential training courses on Global Education(GE)/Global Development...
On 8th March, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe continues to pursue its commitment for equality and launches a new campaign on intersectionality.
Achieving gender equality has been a policy and development goal in the global agenda for decades. Although progress has undeniably been made, important challenges remain. During the last two years, as part of its project “Promoting Diversity and Equality” the North-South Centre of the Council of...
Supporting protection services for women victims of violence in Algeria.
Focus on the project of the Algerian association Djazaïrouna aimed at strengthening the intervention capacities of institutional and civil society actors for better assistance of women victims of violence. In the framework of the Programme "Regional Support for the Consolidation of Human...
The Training Course on Global Education and Media will welcome 30 participants. Apply to be one of them!
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe launches a Tutored Online Training Course on Global Education and Media, to take place from the 18 of April to the 13 of May 2022. Part of the iLegend II project, the training course aims to provide new skills and competences on Global Education,...
Voluntary contribution of Portugal to the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
The voluntary contribution of 150 000 euros was signed today by H.E. Professor Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of the Portuguese Republic, at the premises of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. This contribution will support two projects starting this year...
Open applications for the New Global Education Training Course for Youth Multipliers.
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe launches the Global Education on-line Training Course for Youth Multipliers, to take place from March 1 to 20. Part of the iLegend II project, the training course aims at providing youth multipliers and youth organisations with new tools and...
The COVAX Mechanism and Zarifa Ghafari awarded the 2021 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.
On its meeting on 19 November, the Executive Committee of the North-South Centre endorsed the decision of the North-South Prize Jury to award the 2021 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe to The COVAX Mechanism and Ms. Zarifa Gafhari. The Covax Mechanism is selected in recognition to the...
2020 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe Award Ceremony broadcast live on our website.
On 9 December at noon UTC, the International Commission against the Death Penalty and the Network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change will be awarded in the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic. During this major event, the participants will make public statements for the...
Executive director of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe on mission in Strasbourg.
The meeting of the Executive Committee of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe took place today in a hybrid format, benefitting both a strong mobilisation of its members, as well as the participation of the Programme managers presenting the Centre’s future projects. The Executive...
Registration is now open for the Lisbon Forum's 27th edition dedicated to Intercultural dialogue in the infodemic era!
On December 9th and 10th, speakers from around the world will gather in Lisbon and online to discuss about the urgent necessity to support intercultural dialogue in the era of the infodemic, to counter mis-information, dis-information and hate speech. Despite the opportunities generated by...
Award Ceremony of the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe to take place on 9 December 2021.
The 2020 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe will be awarded to the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP), represented by its President, Judge Navanethem Pillay, in recognition of its contribution to the protection of the right to life and its dedication to...
Ambassador Afonso Malheiro is the new Executive Director of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
At the beginning of November 2021, Ambassador Afonso Henriques Abreu de Azeredo Malheiro took office as Executive Director of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. His last assignment was as Portuguese Ambassador in Peru for three years. Having pursued a seasoned diplomatic career in...
Would you like to know more about the Global Education Week 2021 edition?
November is just around the corner and so is a new edition of the Global Education Week. It will be an opportunity for many actors (Non-Governmental Organisations, teachers, educators, governments...) to celebrate and promote Global Education from 15 to 21 November, as a tool for world awareness...
The Meta-University is coming up: discover the four-day programme and make your own!
The next edition of the Meta-University will take place between 19-22 October 2021 featuring a rich programme built together with ten partner organisations coming from different regions of the world. The Meta-University builds upon the experience of on-field Universities organised by the...
Preparation of the Global Education Week next edition!
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is pleased to inform you that the next edition of the Global Education Week will be held from 15 to 21 November 2021! A meeting with the members of the network took place in order to coordinate the activities. Among them, conferences, awareness...
Applications for the 2022 first traineeship session are now open. Apply by 6 October 2021!
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe offers traineeships twice a year for a period of three (minimum) to five (maximum) months in different units: - Global Education - Youth Cooperation (5 months traineeship period compulsory) - Women Empowerment - Communication and archives - Central...
New research study to celebrate ten years of achievements of the Network on Youth and Global Citizenship!
The Network on Youth and Global Citizenship celebrates ten years! At this occasion, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is launching the research study “The Network on Youth and Global Citizenship: ten years of youth cooperation and youth participation through its Universities”. Since...
Join the Meta-University 2021: propose your activity and contribute to the dialogue about the impact of the current digitalisation on the youth sector!
The Meta-University is an initiative of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe launched last year to ensure interaction, peer-learning and partnership-building among people active in the youth sector at different levels. The Meta-University is an online space to connect and re-connect...
Are you a facilitator experienced in the youth sector? Enroll in the upcoming training to increase the quality of online policy dialogues!
Within the framework of the project “Global Youth”, the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is promoting an online training course to increase competences of facilitators willing to improve the quality of the dialogue between youth-related civil society organisations (CSOs) and...
New Global Education e-learning course for all!
Would you like to know more about the concept of Global Education and its methodologies? The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is pleased to announce a new online self-eLearning course for all! Global Education is a pedagogical approach which privileges a better understanding of world...
Grants to take action during the Global Education Week 2021!
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe coordinates a grant scheme to support initiatives carried out in the framework of its annual campaign Global Education Week (GEW) from 15 to 21 November 2021, with the objective to raise awareness about global education/global development education...
Grants to support Global Education/Global Development Education national strategies and policy reforms in Balkan, Baltic, Visegrad and South-East Europe & Mediterranean countries.
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is launching a call for the attribution of grants to support the development and implementation of Global Education/Global Development Education (GE/GDE) national strategies and/or policy reforms in Balkan, Baltic, Visegrad and South-East Europe &...
The team of the North South Centre attends Council of Europe’s training on Gender mainstreaming, Diversity and Intersectionality!
In early May, the entire team of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe participated in an online training course on Mainstreaming Gender Equality, Diversity, and Intersectionality, to strengthen their analytical and operational capacity to better integrate intersectional perspectives...
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe expresses its commitment to the Istanbul Convention and its determination to contribute to the achievement of its objectives.
Opened for signature in Istanbul ten years ago, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention) is considered today’s most far-reaching international treaty to set out binding obligations to prevent and combat...
The training on “Gender Equality in the Media” is on track !
The first three sessions of the training on “Gender Equality in the Media” - funded by the Council of Europe and promoted by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe - took place online between February and April 2021. All the sessions of this training, designed for media professionals,...
Call for trainers, experts, consultants, and artists to contribute to the Women Empowerment, Global Education and Youth Cooperation Programmes, for the next four years!
Are you used to bring together people from different backgrounds and cultures? Are you keen on facilitating workshops or conferences? Are you interested in being a trainer at the Youth Cooperation Programme Summer Universities? Do you wish to moderate the sessions of the Lisbon Forum? Are you...
Photo contest - Participate in the #TogetherInTheDistance campaign !
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is part of a joint campaign “Together in the distance: Building new solidarities in a changing world.”, launched by the EU Delegation to the Council of Europe to celebrate the resilience of societies across Europe and beyond and pay tribute to those...
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