EU DEAR Programme: Development Education and Awareness Raising

Educators, learners, youth, policymakers, and civil society will gather from across Europe from 16-22 November 2026, for Global Education Week. This year the motto is “My Voice, Our Action, A Common Future.” The week is part of...

How can we move from talking about youth participation to genuinely practising it? That question brought together around 60 participants from across the DEAR Programme in Brussels on 17–19 June for the latest DEAR Exchange Hub...

For many young people, global challenges such as the climate crisis and gender inequality can feel overwhelming, distant, or difficult to act on. The Ecoality project responds to this by creating practical spaces where young...

Across Europe, conversations about migration are often loud, polarised, and distant from everyday experience. But in classrooms, something quieter – and more transformative – is taking place. Through the DEAR project Global...

In small towns and rural communities across Poland, a familiar stereotype lingers: young people glued to their phones, disengaged, indifferent. But new research from the DEAR project Rural Voices 2030 tells a very different story...

In Somogyszentpál, a small village near Lake Balaton in Hungary, the bus stop was more than just a place to catch a ride. For many young people, it was the only place to meet. But for years, it had been falling apart – rusted...

The international software market is dominated by US tech giants, seeting the standard for digital software, with clean design, simple functionality, and intuitive handling. European NGOs, health insurance companies, and...

What does sustainable food policy actually look like in everyday life? For participants in the Turn the Tables exchange programme, the answer became much clearer during two weeks in Milan and Bergamo. What they saw was not...

Launched ahead of the UN Financing for Development summit in Sevilla, Spain in June last year, the “Era of Justice” campaign highlights how today’s biggest challenges are deeply connected. It shows that economic, climate and...