Typically, new DEAR Projects gather for two days in Brussels for an intense learning and exchange session on key elements of planning, operating and communicating on their new DEAR Project. However, these are not normal days. And...
We live with a proliferation of fake news, in an echo chamber of social media with increasingly blurred lines between opinion and fact. Such a media environment is making it harder and harder for DEAR projects to campaign or...
The contract of the current DEAR Support Team is coming to an end in January 2021, but that doesn't mean there won't be a DEAR Support Team! The European Commission has invited a number of consultancy firms and consortia to submit...
The theme for International Youth Day 2020 on August 12 th is Youth Engagement for Global Action. As this theme fits nicely with the DEAR Programme priorities, we want to use the date to celebrate some of the work done by our...
Welcome new DEAR projects! On 1st July we welcomed 10 new DEAR projects to our community via an online seminar. Copies of the PPTs shared during that session and an outline of the 10 new projects, with their aims and objectives...
How are young European activists fairing in lockdown? Young people taking part in the EU-funded Start the Change project share insights into how their lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many learned new skills...
It’s not too late to join a broad collation of some 65 civil society organisations calling for decisive action to improve the rights of the workers who make our clothes and shoes. The coalition want the European Union to develop a...
Some 40 representatives of EU Member States, international networks, civil society organisations, local authorities, academics and the European Commission met in February 2020 to exchange and discuss priorities for DEAR. The...
The Development Education and Awareness Raising Programme and DEAR-funded project Bridge 47 are co-hosting a lunchtime Infopoint session on the 18th February in Brussels. Bridge 47 will present the Envision 4.7 Roadmap - a policy...
Global Citizenship Education practitioners, politicians, academics, Civil Society Organisations and Local Authority representatives are calling on European institutions to take the lead in delivering SDG 4.7. They have published a...