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 […]
Position Paper on Open Schooling
Opening schools: Embracing learner’s and society’s mutual imprint
What is The Green Competences Framework?
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 […]
Position Paper on Outdoor Education
Learning beyond walls : The imperative for recognising outdoor practices in the curriculum
Request for clarification on ‘compulsory’ education
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 […]
Statement on the situation of children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel
QUEST is extremely concerned by the tragic events happening in Gaza Strip and the impact this is having on children in the short and long run. “At least 3,195 Palestinian children have been killed in the past three weeks. About a million have almost no access to essential healthcare services in Gaza. According to UNICEF, more than 400 […]
The European Education Area : Where is education heading in the EU?
Halfway towards the end of the European Education Area (EEA), policymakers, educators, and stakeholders from across the European Union gathered, on October 10, to assess the accomplishments, limits, and next steps to be taken to fulfill the objectives set for 2025. These results were also explained within QUEST’s expert panel discussion dedicated to the EEA. The […]
“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 […]
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 […]