GENE Global Education Youth Award 2024

The deadline for applications is 9 September 2024.

GENE is launching the 5th round of the Global Education Youth Award to highlight quality initiatives in the framework of the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050. This edition of the Award is the first to have a specific focus, highlighting youth-led initiatives.

The award is intended to value Global Education youth-led initiatives that enable young people to reflect critically on the world and their place in it; to open their eyes, hearts and minds to the reality of the world at local and global level; and empowers them to understand, imagine, hope and act to bring about a work of social and climate justice, peace, solidarity, equity and equality, planetary sustainability and international understanding.

Through the Award, GENE also facilitates learning from quality Global Education youth initiatives to improve policy on Global Education and youth across Europe.

Selected youth-led initiatives will be awarded up to 10.000 EUR.

  • In this 5th edition of the Global Education Youth Award, the focus is on youth-led initiatives. What makes you do Global Education youth-led activities in a different way? What is the story behind your youth-led initiative?

    Eligible youth-led initiatives are:

    🟠 Thematically focused on Global Education, as defined in the European Declaration on Global Education to 2050 (for example global-local challenges, solidarity, sustainability, human rights, global citizenship and social justice through education, for full definition see link).

    🟠 Non-formal education initiatives for and by young people.

    🟠 Innovative, action-oriented initiatives working towards positive change through youth leadership and youth engagement.

    Applicants are encouraged to tell the story of how their initiative contributes to transformative learning and change of perceptions among their audiences and explain in what ways their approach is innovative in their contexts.

    • To offer recognition to ongoing or recently finalised youth-led Global Education initiatives in Europe that facilitate transformative learning.

    • To collect examples of innovative practice and disseminate learning from youth-led Global Education initiatives to policymakers throughout Europe.

  • The award is open for applications from organisations that work towards the vision and aims of Global Education as elaborated in the Dublin Declaration, specifically:

    🟠 legally constituted, youth-led organisations at local, national and international level in European countries (national and local youth councils, international youth organisations working at all levels).

    🟠 legally constituted youth serving organisations (CSOs, LRGs, etc.) at local, national and international level in European countries, where at least 30% of the organisation’s leadership is made up of youth representatives (18-29 years old).

    The initiatives need to be ongoing or recently finalised (in 2024).

  • Applicants will be asked to describe their initiative by submitting a short text (max 1000 words) and a short video (2-3 min). They will be encouraged to tell their story. Why this is a youth-led Global Education activity? How does your youth-led initiative contribute to transformative learning? In what ways does this learning happen? What aspects do you consider innovative?

    Please note that a successful application process involves a peer assessment of your application by another applicant, as well as, your review of another application. For more, see the Selection Process section.

    In order to access the application form, click the button below.

GENE Global Education Award 2020/2021

This publication presents GENE Global Education Award 2020/2021, focused on quality and good practice in Global Education across Europe and gives recognition to the nominated initiatives.

GENE Global Education Awardees 2020/2021:
Quality and good practice in Global Education
across Europe

Video summary of all awarded initiatives 2020/2021.

GENE Global Education Award 2020/2021 Ceremony.

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Within this 4th Award edition, GENE participating ministries and agencies nominated 47 quality Global Education initiatives, which submitted a wide range of inspiring initiatives and programmes. GENE selected 7 initiatives that will be awarded €10,000 each.

Additionally, other initiatives have been recognised for quality in Global Education and will be gathered in a compendium showcasing quality practices.

  • Academic Programme "Global Citizenship Education III"
    University of Klagenfurt (Austria)

    CHanGE – Campaign for Sexual Health and Gender Equality
    The University Centre for Development Cooperation (UCOS), Belgium 

    Imagine
    Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR), Cyprus

    Phenomenal Agenda – Global Learning for Sense of Belonging
    Peace Education Institute (Finland)

    21st Century Skills Labs
    Institute of Education Policy (Greece)

    Code of Good Practice for Development Education
    IDEA (Ireland) 

    Introducing Global Education to the education system of journalism and political science students
    HumanDoc Foundation (Poland)

  • GENE considered the following dimensions when reviewing the initiatives from different parts of Europe:

    • alignment with the Maastricht definition of Global Education (2002) with a strong focus on justice

    • interconnectedness between the global and the local

    • highlighting quality that enables learning in other European countries

    • educational approach

    • and an active, participatory and critical role of all involved in the initiative

    Moreover, the diverse context of the European countries has also been taken into consideration.

    Nominated initiatives should be run by a legally constituted body and should reflect what represents quality Global Education, with a view to inspiring stakeholders in other countries, and, in particular, other policymakers.

  • To highlight examples of good practices of quality Global Education initiatives in Europe, to enable multiplication or scale-up, and to enhance policy learning across borders.

  • To offer recognition and to disseminate learning from examples of quality Global Education among policymakers and other stakeholders in Europe.

  • Ministries and Agencies participating in GENE can nominate up to three Global Education initiatives from their country. The type of initiative is flexible. It could be an innovative GE teacher education programme, an unusual partnership, a brilliant NGO project, an inspiring whole-school approach, a youth work initiative or an adult learning project.

  • GENE awarded €10,000 to the most inspiring Global Education initiatives. The money is intended to support, improve and/or expand the work. Additionally, other inspiring initiatives were included in a GENE Award compendium and received a certificate of excellence and recognition.

Past GENE Awards

In 2018, seven innovative initiatives were awarded €10,000 each for creating positive change through creativity, participation, direct action, synergies and innovation, with a view to ultimately inspiring public policy.

GENE Global Education
Innovation Award 2017/2018.

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In 2019, GENE awarded three promising ideas for Global Education initiatives that facilitate transformative learning and open peoples’ eyes and minds to the realities of the world, locally and globally.

GENE Global Education
Ideas Award 2019.

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