Academic Network to empower Educators for Democracy and Peace: Strengthening democracy and peace education in teacher training
Status
Project phase ongoing
Acronym
DEM-ED
Project contact PHSG
The project "Academic Network to empower Educators for Democracy and Peace" (short: DEM-ED) has the overarching goal of strengthening democracy and peace education in teacher training. The primary target group of this project is lecturers who work in the training or further education of teachers and focus on democracy or peace education.
Lay Summary Lead
The project "Academic Network to empower Educators for Democracy and Peace" (short: DEM-ED) has the overarching goal of strengthening democracy and peace education in teacher training. The primary target group of this project is lecturers who work in the training or further education of teachers and focus on democracy or peace education.
Lay Summary
Specifically, the DEM-ED project pursues the following objectives:
- Through international networking, the teaching methodology of democracy and peace education will be further developed and strengthened in view of the challenges posed by digitalization.
- Transversal approaches such as democracy education and education for sustainable development are increasingly anchored institutionally (e.g. in curricula, teaching, school development).
- The long-term exchange on democracy and peace education is guaranteed by the establishment of a digitally supported network.
- Through international networking, the teaching methodology of democracy and peace education will be further developed and strengthened in view of the challenges posed by digitalization.
- Transversal approaches such as democracy education and education for sustainable development are increasingly anchored institutionally (e.g. in curricula, teaching, school development).
- The long-term exchange on democracy and peace education is guaranteed by the establishment of a digitally supported network.
Relation to the professional field
Development project
Fields of Science and Technology (OECD)
Project contact PHSG
Consortium Coordinator
Partner Organisations
Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University
University of Tartu
BAU International University Batumi
Alecu Russo State University of Bălți
National Center for Teacher Professional Development Georgia
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
University of Pristina
University Taras Shevchenko Kyiv
Odesa Academy of Continuous Learning
Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (Ministry of Education Sport and Youth)
AHDR (Association for Historical Dialogue and Research) Cyprus
Consortium Coordinator(s)
Boulos, Samir
Principal Investigator
Ritzer, Nadine
Investigators
Co-Investigator(s) external
Boulos, Samir
Ritzer, Nadine
Chuffart Balmer, Séverine
| Funder | Start | End | Award URL Funder | Grant Number Funder | Funder Program |
January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | ||||
Note on the external funding