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 it can be achieved. The conference will build on the results and the policy recommendations […]
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 with L4WB perspectives, but Janusz Korczak created such a republic within a Jewish orphanage in […]
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 the European Parliament, including the Learning for Well-being Foundation’s QoC and Post QoC. The L4WB […]
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. The programme is aimed at equipping children with the necessary skills to be able to […]
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 and chaired by MEP Julie Ward. Ruth Churchill Dower from EarlyArts, UK, explained compellingly why […]
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 half were under 18 years old. The heart intention of this forum’s edition was to […]
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 at the LLLP General Assembly, led by Daniel Kropf, that encouraged those present to make […]
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 large audience was provided for Nancy Mannix of the Palix Foundation in Canada, for her experiences […]
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 by the costs of different approaches to support children and families. Click here for […]
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 into discussion of related issues in European settings. Panels composed of speakers from […]
