“Nothing about us without us”: Youth demanding meaningful participation at the UN
On the 15th and 16th of September, NGOs, decision-makers and civil society representatives met to prepare the Sustainable Development Goals Summit (SDG Summit). An opportunity to discuss the progress made, the limits encountered and the next steps towards a more peaceful, fair and sustainable society in 2030. Voicing is not enough : asking for […]
Online training: Sociocracy in schools
19 October 2023
QUEST hosts BUSTA partners to learn more about inclusion
We launched the BUSTA project with our partners two years ago, and are delighted to see the positive feedback and influence on the participants of the project. It has been inspiring to discover how the inclusive practice of animal-assisted therapy can take shape through different innovative initiatives across Europe! During these last two years of […]
The State of the Union 2023: EU priorities and omissions
The State of the Union, delivered by the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen on the 13th of September, was the occasion to come back on the European Commission’s successes and next priorities for 2024, 9 months preceding the EU elections of the 6-9th of June 2024, and therefore the end of this Commission’s […]
Online training: Sociocracy in organisations and communities
17 October 2023
QUEST and CDE screened the documentary about the BUSTA project
The documentary about the project BUSTA was screened at the EUDEC 2023 conference, allowing us to jointly discuss the experience of students building soft skills through participation in training with therapy with dogs, horses, and dolphins in three different countries in Europe. The Democratic Education community organized a photography exhibition about the students experiences during […]
July 2023
We welcomed this month with a full office, as Martina, one of our two coordinators, joined us for a fulfilling and challenging couple of weeks. It was the opportunity to talk about how everything is going so far, meet the future policy and project officers at QUEST (!), and organise the coming summer months which […]
June 2023
After an eventful few weeks, we are back with plenty to report! June started with the famous on-arrival training organised by our national agency (JINT). We spent a week in a beautiful venue one hour south of Brussels, together with other 30 ESC volunteers working all around Belgium. Various activities were set up with the […]
QUEST hosts therapy dog Aika, while the team work to finalise the documentary for screening in Sofia
The Belgian activities regarding the BUSTA project were all revolving around Aika, the therapy dog in training from the organisation Dyadis, of which the experiences are filmed and visible in the project documentary. As the team was working on the editing, gathering information in order to create the credits at the end, and working on […]
QUEST attends the movie challenge screening at CDE school in Sofia
Following the 2 days of BUSTA meetings, the QUEST team, with it’s 4 European Solidarity Corps volunteers, had the opportunity to join the students at the Community of Democratic Education at their school. This was a special day, as the whole community gathered for a screening of the results of a student’s movie-making challenge. As […]