Based on the results of the consultation phase engaged with the Global Education Network and on the evaluation of the first and second cycle, iLegend III continues creating links between the formal and non-formal sectors of education to better align them to the principles of Global Education. Particular attention is given to:

- The improvement of the competences of education practitioners: from policy development to monitoring, evaluation and learning.

- The capacity building dimension through training programmes, that complements the existing residential training programme and the MOOC.

- The advocacy dimension through a continued support to the national coordinators of the Global Education Network (GEN), and through the enlargement of the GEN to a dual national representation (institutional/practitioner).

- The inclusion through youth participation and gender maintreaming. 

iLEGEND III has an interregional cooperation dimension and aims to bring together a wide range of stakeholders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, strengthening the bonds between countries and peoples.   

iLegend II (2019-2022) was conceived to foster a better understanding of global issues and their economic, social, political, environmental and cultural interconnectedness among policy-makers, educators and youth workers and builds on the successes of iLegend, a three-year project that closed in 2019. 

The first cycle of iLegend had three specific courses of action: 

Advocacy: towards the reinforcement of competences of educators as key agents for the effective implementation of SDG4. 

Capacity building: the transfer of knowledge through educators and peers about global development education competences and tools to support its dissemination.

Awareness rising: contributing to the reflection and understanding of each individual’s role within a globally interconnected society, with particular attention to young people. 

Based on the results of the consultation phase engaged with the Global Education Network and on the evaluation of the first cycle, iLegend II aimed to: 

• Engage more policy makers in all actions of the project. 
• Reinforce competencies of educators.
• Implement sub-granted awareness-raising actions/projects.
• Reinforce the Global Education Network. 

The project, which has a budget of € 1.3 Million (75% sourced from the EU and 25% from the Council of the Europe), consisted of two main components:

• Institutional: providing spaces for dialogue among multiple stakeholders (representatives from governments, parliaments, local and regional authorities and civil society) with the aim to strengthen policy development and implementation in favour of global development education in targeted countries. This pillar consists of a series of regional seminars, microgrants for national projects and a final congress.
• Capacity Building: the project invests in developing capacities not only of educators (formal and non-formal) and “youth multipliers”, but also of government officials from relevant ministries (Education, Youth, Foreign-Affairs). This pillar consists of a series of residential and online courses, together with the dissemination of pedagogical resources, i.e. the revised version of the Global Education Guidelines (GEG): a handbook for educators and policy makers to understand and implement GE concepts and methodologies.