📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Working group - ULG Global Citizenship Education IV (2023-2027)
Country: Austria Funding amount: € 98,880.00 Start: October 1st, 2023 End: July 31, 2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The overall goal of the project is the further development and fourth implementation of the ULG Global Citizenship Education (GCED). Global Citizenship Education is an internationally emerging field of educational research and practice and has become a central educational concern of the Global Agenda 2030 (Goal 4.7) and UNESCO.
The university course is a 6-semester master's program for the professional and didactic qualification of educators and other multipliers in global citizenship education. After three rounds have already been successfully completed, the present project includes the implementation of a fourth round of the ULG, which has been further developed conceptually and, through an expansion to 120 ECTS and the introduction of internships, creates an even stronger connection between theory and research-based training and transfer into the educational practice enables.
The aim of the course is to impart (didactic) specialist knowledge based on the latest scientific findings on the subject of global citizenship education, and thus to contribute to strengthening global citizenship education in the Austrian education system as well as to theory-driven and research-based reflection of practice and theoretical discourse.
expected results
Successful implementation of the course with approx. 25-35 participants (multipliers)
- At the end of the ULG, there will be around 25 new master's theses that address relevant research questions for GCED.
- At the end of the ULG, around 25 internships were carried out, which contribute to the dissemination and visibility of GCED in Austria and beyond the borders. Carrying out around 10 events as part of the internships.
- Min. 5 publications in specialist journals and at least 5 lectures about the course.
- Strengthening networking and professional exchange between course participants, former graduates and their institutions (including through an event).
- The course reaches an indirect target group of around 2,500 people (pupils, students, children and young people in extracurricular settings, adults) per year. In addition, larger target groups are reached by integrating global citizenship education into curricula, through lectures and specialist publications.
target group
The part-time university course for 25-35 participants is aimed throughout Austria at people who are active in the training, further education and further training of educators, at directors and teachers of all school types and levels, at adult educators and Educators from extracurricular child and youth work as well as multipliers from other areas (NGOs, politics, public administration, social sector, media).
Cooperation partner: Carinthia University of Education, UNESCO Chair for Global Citizenship Education – Cultur
