[Project Summary] The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) establishes economic, social, cultural, civil, political, and participation rights of persons under 18 years. Since its adoption in 1989, it has been ratified by 196 countries. As an...

The “new normal” is for all ages — Luis Manuel Pinto &Daniel Kropf The pandemic revealed the colours of the embedded ageism in our societies. Children and older adults— two edges of the age spectrum—have been the most impacted by...

How can the path towards gender equality take in consideration the role of children? How can children’s rights, and in particular, child participation, be a vehicle for creating gender equality? These were some of the questions explored in a joint...

The Learning for Well-being Foundation launched a social media campaign on human core capacities. Core capacities are abilities that we use every day in order to explore and connect with ourselves, each other, and the world we live in. These...

“When it comes to supporting the rights of children and addressing the harsh consequences of the pandemic, philanthropic organisations also play a key role. Already today, many foundations contribute actively to the well-being and support of children – and this...

The EU Strategy on Children’s Rights was developed in consultation with 10,000 children, it includes actions and recommendations targeting the EU, Member States and the private sector. It will provide the framework for EU action to better promote and protect...

The presentation at our last Qoc meeting has been given by Professor Dr. Mathias Urban, who holds the Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education at Dublin City University.  He presented the ‘OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS). Is this the way forward...

  2getherLAND Online is a  campaign to promote partnership between children and adults for fairness and sustainability using different social media and virtual platforms in order to overcome  physical distancing and still create together. In this campaign we aim to...

A big thank you to the EFC for allowing us to present Act2gether and be part of the kick off meeting of their Children’s Thematic Network! The new EFC Children’s Thematic Network kicks off with an exploratory meeting looking at...

Quality of Childhood at the European Parliament, on Tuesday 3rd September, 2019 “Our last Qoc meeting at the Parliament welcomed Marshall Marcus, the founder and the chairman of the Sistema Europe https://www.sistemaeurope.org This organisation gathers volunteer musical teachers, children and young...

Brussels, 13 September 2019 Measuring what matters — according to Learning for Well-being perspectives — is essential for well-being, including for school children.  Too often, however, standardized assessment in schools undermines children’s well-being rather than enabling each child to develop...

ISSA: International Step by Step Association Children’s wellbeing in their early years is crucial and it depends tremendously on the physical, mental, social-emotional, cultural, economic, and political conditions of the environment where they live or where they were born. The...

Pre-conference workshop ‘Partnering with Young Children across Sectors – Beginning a Movement’ offered by the L4WB Foundation Objectives This one-day workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of note-worthy practices in the collaboration between (young) children and adults, and to involve...

Can learning for well-being over the life course be achieved through lifelong learning community centres in neighbourhoods? A new briefing paper, called ‘Implementing a holistic approach to lifelong learning: Community Lifelong Learning Centres as a gateway to multidisciplinary support teams’...

The children’s rights community will gather in Brussels for Eurochilds 2019 General Assembly and Members’ Day on 17-18 April, 2019.  Eurochild, member of the L4WB Community, is organizing her annual meeting at the office of ‘KindEnGezin’, Avenue de la Porte...

After the successful L4WB Community Day last year, we invited our community composed by young people and adults to participate at our annual Community Day in Brussels. After the amazing virtual launch we had for our new project called ‘Act2Gether’...

Quality of Childhood at the European Parliament, on Tuesday March 5th, 2019 Helping, sharing, collaborating… are not words generally associated with adolescents.  Drawing on insightful new neurocognitive research, however, Professor Eveline Crone – winner of the Spinoza Prize, the highest...

CONFERENCE The Conference Strengthening integration within early childhood systems – why and how? will bring together European and country policy makers and programs implementers to discuss about the rationale for strengthening integration in the early childhood systems and about ways in which...

On Tuesday December 4th, 2018 another Quality of Childhood (QoC) session took place at the European Parliament in Brussels.   A ‘Republic for children’ where children and adults recognize each other as competent partners sounds like a contemporary idea resonant...

The Lifelong Learning Week began on 3 December and brought the 42 member organisations of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP), who address formal and non-formal education throughout the life course and across Europe, to Brussels.  Many events took place at...

Trainings on listening to children The Learning for Well-being Foundation and Eurochild are partnering in creating a training programme that helps children and adults partner in initiatives that support the right of children to be heard and taken seriously.  ...

Children flourish through artistic expression, so cutting budgets for art programmes undermines children’s development, as argued during the Quality of Childhood (QoC) session at the European Parliament, organized with the Alliance for Children European Network Group on 4 September 2018...

Children as Actors Transforming Society 2018: ‘Safe Together’ The CATS Forum 2018 (Children as Actors Transforming Society) was dedicated to creating safety in partnership, as way to address violence against children. The forum gathered almost 300 participants, of which about...

The annual Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) event in Vienna was the usual vibrant interchange between 43 networks around formal, non-formal and informal education that together cover 50,000 institutions.  The Learning for Well-being Foundation was invited to offer an energizing moment...

On June 5th, 2018 another Quality of Childhood (QoC) session took place in the European Parliament in Brussels. The organizers as usual were the Alliance for Childhood European Network Group and the Learning for Well-being Foundation. This time a formal forum and a...

Measuring the long-term social and economic value of investing in children,’ an event held on 7 June at Eurochild in collaboration with the Bertelsmann Foundation, further extended this discussion in the context of the Childonomics initiative that develops an economic model informed...

  An event with this title was held at Eurochild on 6 June, 2018 co-organized by the Learning for Well-being Foundation.  Nancy Mannix of the Palix Foundation offered her experience of transformative investment for children in Canada, as a springboard...

Helping young people finding a sense of purpose From 14 to 19 May, in Luxembourg, the L4WB Foundation, in partnership with the European Peer Training Organisation, led another seminar of the project “Bouge et Décroche ton Potentiel” (Move and Land your...

On 17 and 18 May, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Sport, Youth and Culture organized a conference in Brussels on Inspiring Change: The governance of school education. The conference explored the key policy messages articulated by the ET...

Luís Manuel Pinto (Educational Programmes) from the L4WB Foundation completed last May a one-year advanced practitioner training in Social Presencing Theatre (SPT). Based on Theory U, this methodology combines movement and mindfulness to help make visible the inner dynamics of...

From April 30 through May 3, 2018  a group of 13 practitioners from Europe and North America met in Kalamazoo, Michigan (U.S.A.)  Representing a variety of disciplines and fields of interest, they came to  learn together and reflect on the...

L4WB Community Day in Brussels on ‘Competent Systems’ On April 24th, 2018 all community members and friends of the L4WB Foundation gathered for celebrating achievements, connecting with each other and with various activities. To commit for another year of supporting...

A series of workshops introducing the basic elements of the L4WB framework are being offered to members of the L4WB community who wish to deepen their understanding of Learning for Well-being. The next edition will take place from the 27th...

When it comes to imagining the future, no one can dream as limitlessly as children. Yet, millions of children are still growing up in places affected by conflict. How do these children participate in shaping their own futures? And what...