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From the beginning of July the OBESSU Secretariat in Brussels is again complete! Our Secretary General Viviana Galli is now assisted by Emilia Kowalczyk and Sarah Dejaegher. Emilia is our new Project and Policy Officer, she is 26, originally from Poland and has studied EU policies in Germany and Australia. Sarah is a 23 years old student from Belgium and will work part-time as the new Communication and Administration Assistant. In addition, from …

On the 29th of June the European Commission published its proposal for the next EU budget, “Multiannual Financial Framework”, covering the years 2014-2020. The Commission proposes an increase of ca. 68% in the budget allocated to Education and Culture and tables the proposal to bring all programmes related to education and youth (thus, including Lifelong learning, Comenius, Erasmus, Youth in Action, etc.) under one brand name: “Education Eu …

From the 6th to the 13th of March, 2011 more than 30 students from 15 European countries participated in the OBESSU Study Session “Human Rights Education with and by school students: empowering school students to be peer educators in HRE”which took place at the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe in Budapest, Hungary. The one week event’s main goal was to empower students to raise awareness of Human Rights in their environmen …

This was one of the many good questions we were asked to answer during the study session. And everybody had an opinion on it. So what is peer education and why should we implement in the schools? …

PEER EDUCATION

Peer education can be considered as non-formal education between equals. It is based not only on knowledge but also on interaction and the peer educator's experience and personal view.

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

Raising awareness and educating about Human Rights is necessary because these universal values are a minimum requirement to ensure any real democracy and peaceful environment. Human Rights Education aims to make sure e …