The North-South Centre launches a new free online course: “Global Education: The Citizenship Dimension”, in collaboration with The Network University, from 4 February to 3 March 2019. This course is open to anyone, wherever you are in the world, with an interest on the concept of citizenship as part of the global education context, willing to focus on its practice while exploring its dilemmas and challenges.

Designed in collaboration with recognised experts in the field, this four-week course explores new ways of understanding and promoting active citizenship from the contexts and perspectives of the participants. It addresses the issues in theory and practice, reflecting on the ideal state considering the evidence from the reality, while allowing learners to:

review the existing concepts related to citizenship, civic engagement and participation;

identify competences and possible paths to develop impactful context-based citizenship leading to social justice and sustainability;

act towards active citizenship locally and globally;

connect with thinkers, practitioners, innovators and other relevant actors in the field.

More information can be found on the North-South Centre website and you can register through the social learning platform of The Network University for this free online course starting on 4 February 2019. Registration is open until 28 January 2019. Places are limited and this will be the last course delivered until July 2019.

Since 2009, the North-South Centre has trained over 1500 learners from more than 50 countries through a series of online training courses, which cover three different dimensions of global education: human rights, intercultural dialogue, and democratic citizenship. Each course takes place twice a year and lasts for four weeks. These tutored courses consist of both text and videos, individual and collective assignments, a discussion forum, and require an active participation of 10 hours per week.

Global Education @North-South Centre

The activities of the North-South Centre Global Education programme take place in the framework of the iLegend programme -Intercultural Learning Exchange through Global Education, Networking and Dialogue, funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe. This joint programme promotes the inclusion Global Development Education in formal education in the Balkans, Baltic, South East Europe and Mediterranean and Visegrad regions.