QUEST answer to the European Education Interim Evaluation

The European Education Area today While we welcome the holistic perspective of education the EU has adopted throughout the European Education Area, as well as the spaces created for good practices exchanges at the EU level, we believe more should be done towards the national implementation of the European Education Area. Indeed, Education remains threatened […]

Climate Pact Ambassadors’ Recommendations for the new EU Agenda 2024-2029

Why this document? Six Belgium Climate Pact Ambassadors have gathered their thoughts and recommendations in this document to inspire the EU Commission’s next 2024-2029 agenda, in the hope to see it reflect citizens’ needs, the reduction of inequalities as well as the preservation of natural resources and planetary boundaries as an utmost priority. To this […]

What is The Green Competences Framework?

GreenComp

The European Sustainability Competence Framework – GreenComp – defines what sustainability is as a competence and how it can be developed through the educational system. The GreenComp places particular attention to the interconnected character of the 12 competence and to the need to embed sustainability skills through the lifelong learning process of an individual. The […]

Request for clarification on ‘compulsory’ education

IDEC resolution

This November, QUEST participated in an international press release centered around World Children’s Day. The action was a call to the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child to clarify that “compulsory education” means a guarantee of universal access to education and does not mean forcing a child to attend school. The Universal […]