Events

NYCI is hosting a seminar ‘Making the Case for Development Education in Youth Work' which will take place on Thursday 9 February (9.30am – 4pm) in Dublin. The seminar will provide youth worker practitioners and policy experts with a space to discuss and debate the link between policy and practice through expert inputs, panel discussions and a good practice showcase. It will highlight key policies at a national and European level that help shape development education practice in the youth sector and examine how the youth sector can influence the development of these policies. Key-note speaker will be the new Minister of State for Trade and Development, Joe Costello, T.D. Other inputs will include speakers from the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, GLEN (Global Education Network of Young Europeans) and local youth organisations from around Ireland who will showcase their examples of good practice in development education.
Registration:
Please visit our site for further details and registration: http://www.youthdeved.ie/development_education/makingthecase

Contact deved@nyci.ie for any further information.

The Centre for Global Education Annual Conference 2012 will be held in Dublin on Thursday, 23 February 2012 on the theme “Rising to the Challenge: Development Education in a Changing Local and Global Landscape”. The conference will explore some of the key challenges confronting the development education sector in the current financial climate and shifting policy landscape, particularly in demonstrating the impact of our practice on target groups. It will signpost how the sector can move forward in this context and examine the new opportunities that have arisen for development educators to engage with local audiences on global issues. The keynote address will be delivered by Bobby McCormack of Development Perspectives followed by a panel of speakers and workshops.

Date: Thursday, 23 February 2012

Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm

Venue: The Exchange, 50 Gardiner Street Lower, Dublin 1

Keynote speaker: Bobby McCormack (Co-founder of Development Perspectives and lecturer in Dundalk Institute of Technology).

A full programme and registration form will be circulated soon. In the meantime, if you require further information please contact:
Stephen McCloskey
Director
Centre for Global Education
9 University Street
Belfast
BT7 1FY
Tel: +44 (0) 2890 241879

You can indicate your interest in registering for the conference by e-mailing:

stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com

Centre for Global Education & Lourdes Youth and Community Services (LYCS)

invite participation in a workshop titled

From the Local to the Global:
Engaging Local Communities in Global Learning and Action

VENUE:
Volunteer Now
34 Shaftesbury Square
Belfast
BT2 7DB

DATE:
Friday, 09 March 2012

TIME:
10.00am – 4.00pm
(Light lunch provided)

REGISTRATION FEES:
£20 (waged) and £10 (unwaged / student)
Three bursaries are available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for minority ethnic organisations.

About the Workshop
This workshop will provide an introduction to global learning targeted specifically at the community sector. The training seeks to increase participant’s knowledge of the links between the local and global, build capacity of community workers to support local groups and communities to think critically about global issues at a local level and to provide practical exercises and tools to this end. The workshop will be based on a training course delivered in the south of Ireland by Lourdes Youth and Community Services (www.lycs.ie).

Booking is essential and registration fees paid in advance. Participation is strictly limited to 16 with priority given to educators who can apply the training in community settings. For further information and a registration form please contact Stephen McCloskey, E: stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com.

The seminar aims to:
· Enable community workers to become engaged in global education practice.

· Increase participant’s knowledge of the links between local and global issues.

· To enhance critical literacy skills and examine how they can be applied at a local level.

Target Group
The seminar is targeted at staff, volunteers and management board members of community and voluntary organizations interested in strengthening their practice in global education. It is also aimed at development education practitioners interested in enhancing their links with the community and voluntary sector.

For a registration form or further information contact:
Stephen McCloskey, Director, Centre for Global Education;
E: stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com; Tel: +44 (28)90241879

Registration closes on Friday, 2 March 2012.

Centre for Global Education:
The Centre for Global Education was established in 1986 to provide education services that enhance awareness of international development issues. The Centre provides learners with the skills, values, knowledge and understanding necessary to facilitate action that will contribute to poverty eradication both locally and globally.

Centre for Global Education
9 University Street
Belfast
BT7 1FY

Tel: (0044) 2890 241879
E-mail: stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com
Web: www.centreforglobaleducation.com

LYCS:
Lourdes Youth and Community Services (also known as the School on Stilts, the Lourdes Project or the Craft Centre) is a community development project based off Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin’s North East Inner City.

Lower Rutland Street

Off Lower Sean Mac Dermott St

Dublin 1

Phone: 01-8363416

Fax: 01-8556445

E-mail: lycs@lycs.ie

Web: www.lycs.ie

The workshop is Funded by: