EU DEAR Programme: Development Education and Awareness Raising

What can a city street tell us about poverty, peace, climate justice or inequality? In Évora, Portugal, a new Sustainable Development Goals Route is inviting residents and visitors to look at the city through a different lens...

How can societies respond to overlapping crises while also recognising new forms of resistance, participation and collective imagination? That question was at the heart of the XXXV Latin American Congress of Sociology, held in Rio...

The European Partnership for Democracy has published a new analysis of the European Parliament’s report on the European Democracy Shield, highlighting some of the changes introduced during the amendment process and what they could...

How can youth workers turn concerns around young people’s wellbeing, participation and emotional empowerment into campaigns that can influence change? A new interactive toolkit from the EMPASY project brings together practical...

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...