Learning from DEAR Projects

The DEAR Programme offers regular learning and exchange hubs to DEAR projects. Check out our training presentations and reports ranging from social media to financial management.

Communication and Outreach:

• DEAR Project Legacies: campaigns, story-telling, knowledge management, individual, group and policy changes (May 2023)
• Social media to create public engagement (November 2020)
• Best practices in communication and social media (September 2020)
• Communication Plans (September 2018)
• Engaging the public in the Sustainable Development Goals (Athens, April 2017)

Focus on Migration 

• DEAR Exchange Hub on Migrations, Climate Change and Youth Engagement (September 2022)
• DEAR project work on Migration (September 2020)
• Webinar ‘Media and Migration: counteracting negative stereotypes’ (September 2020)

Focus on youth and youth engagement:

• The DEAR Learning and Development Hubs on Youth Engagement, Policy Advocacy and Peer Learning (March 2022)
• The DEAR Programme at the European Youth Event 2021 (October 2021)
• How to inspire and engage young people in development issues (Sófia, April 2019)

Focus on Climate Change

• Communicating climate change and global development (Frankfurt, May 2019)

Project Reporting

• Project final reporting (November 2020)
• Narrative Project Reports (Brussels, February 2019)

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL):

• The new DEAR MEAL Guide (February 2022)
• "Connecting Stories. Using MEL to Build a DEAR Narrative" (June 2021)
• The Results Chain formulation and good practices (November 2020)
• Working in partnerships, contacting targets, and MEL (Brussels, October 2019)
• On-going project evaluation (Ljubljana, March 2017)
• Challenges and opportunities of creating lasting results through DEAR projects (Brussels, April 2015)
• Assessing DEAR project results-impact on participants and audiences (Reading, November 2015)

Political Advocacy:

• Messages and tools to influence policy change in Global Citizenship Education (November 2020)
• DEAR project recommendations on how to create Policy Change (September 2020)

Teacher training:

• New skills for educators in global Citizenship Education (November 2020)

Partnerships and community outreach:

• Working in and with local communities and large partnerships (Milan, June 2016)
• Engaging agents of change/multipliers for DEAR (Prague, December 2015)
• Involving people in complex social, economic and political change (Dublin, December 2015)

Covid-19

• Impact of Covid-19 on DEAR projects (May 2020)
• Q&A on Financial and Contractual Issues linked to Covid-19 changes (May 2020)

Other:

• DEAR projects in the wider Global Learning context (Helsinki, November 2019)
• Planning and implementing EU DEAR projects (Brussels, October 2017)
• Sub-granting to achieve project objectives (Toruń, May 2017)
• Contributing to the DEAR objectives (Brussels, March 2017)
• Questions to ask before, during and after a DEAR project (Brussels, February 2016)