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! https://www.efc.be/news-post/the-new-efc-childrens-thematic-network-kicks-off-with-an-exploratory-meeting-looking-at-childrens-participation-and-the-next-steps-of-the-network/
led by the Bertelsmann Foundation
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 people in orchestral and ensemble music-making programmes, to inspire and transform positively the lives of these children, […]
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 her or his unique potential. Yet even within the constraints of the existing system, teachers […]
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 conference ‘Nurturing Environments, for the wellbeing of young children and families’, organized by ISSA aims […]
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 participants in contributing to the definition and development of a new international initiative that supports […]
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’ argues that such centres can act as ‘one stop shops’ for multidisciplinary teams that respond […]
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 de Hal 27, in Brussels. Participants will be expected to travel to Brussels on 16 April. […]
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’ in February, we were really excited to be able to continue the discussion focused on […]
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 scientific award in the Netherlands – will highlight the potential for learning and social-affective engagement […]
