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DARE
Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups
(SIG) serve as think-tanks for the network. They pool the expertise of
partner organisations, collect evidence on EDC/HRE issues, develop
innovative educational tools, and provide professional support,
capacity building and advocacy for NGOs in the field.
The DARE Special Interest Groups meet regularly on the following
issues:
SIG 1: Advocacy for EDC/ HRE
SIG 2: Common Projects
SIG 3: Action and Research
All SIG activities led to high-quality manuals (DARE
Blue Lines) pooling the DARE network expertise and disseminated as
a tool for quality improvement and capacity building.
SIG 1: Advocacy for EDC/ HRE
This group collects evidence on the state of affairs in EDC/HRE on
national and European level, provides advocacy tools and opportunities
to all members and links the NGO grassroots expertise back to policy
making and vice versa.
A series of focus meetings with adult education experts and other
stakeholders led to regularly published policy recommendations (see
DARE Blog), among them “Towards
a coherent policy framework for EDC/HRE in Europe” and a
hearing in the European Parliament on the same issue, which was a
milestone for the outreach of the DARE network.
Dissemination and networking activities included participation at
several European conferences, among them the Networking European
Citizenship Education (NECE) Conference “The
Impact of Cultural and Citizenship Education on Social Cohesion”
(see
DARE Blog) and the EACEA conference “Grundtvig,
a decade of European innovation in adult learning” where DARE was
presented as best practice in the section “Active Citizenship” (see
here). More activities are listed
here.
SIG 2: Common Projects
This group provides information on funding opportunities and supports
all network members to get involved in common educational projects,
using the diversity of expertise in EDC/HRE, the geographical
diversity of the network, and the diversity of target groups.
It served as an incubator for several joint projects in the field of
EDC/HRE and lifelong learning, building consortia with partners inside
and outside the DARE network.
Results include focus meetings on "Evaluation
and Communication Criteria for Effective Networking", “Fundraising
strategies for European initiatives in the field of EDC/HRE”, "Children's
Rights Education for Adults" and "Active
Citizenship", a
conference on "Pathways
Interconnecting History Education and EDC/HRE in Adult Learning",
and an international workshop on "Methodologies
of Human Rights Education".
The group introduced, discussed, disseminated and trained more than 50
Adult Learning projects DARE members are involved with (among them the
“Religious
Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Training Programme”, which has
been awarded the European Commission´s Gold Prize for the best Adult
Education Project in 2008
SIG 3: Action and Research
This group bridges the gap between practice and research, between
practitioners on the grassroot level and academia.
Results include discussion papers on "Teaching
Politics in a Globalized World", “Intercultural
challenges for NGOs active in EDC/HRE”, a manual “Children´s
Rights Education for Adults”, a manual on "Pathways
Interconnecting History Education and EDC/HRE in Adult Learning",
and a toolbox on "Methodologies
of Human Rights Education."
DARE policy recommendations also result of vital exchange with
researchers on DARE conferences
and meetings. Furthermore, regular reviews of relevant research in the
field of EDC/HRE are published on the
DARE Blog.
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DARE Focus Meeting in
Copenhagen (2009): “Fundraising
strategies for European initiatives in the field of EDC/HRE”
DARE Focus Meeting in
Brussels (2010): "Children's
Rights Education for Adults"
DARE presentation at the
Göteburg Adult Education Conference in 2009
DARE
Berlin Conference: Explaining the
simulation game... |
