YOUDEX Toolkit
This toolkit explores the potential of digital storytelling to engage young people in democratic participation and civic engagement. Developed under the Erasmus+ project YOUDEX – Youth Digital Storytelling for Democracy, it places youth personal narratives at the centre, demonstrating how lived experiences can illuminate democratic values in families, schools, and communities across Europe. The toolkit […]
Growing Beyond Gender: Practices for Outdoor Educators
This practical guide is designed to help educators construct, deconstruct, reflect, create, innovate, and unlearn. Readers are encouraged to use the material that resonates with their context, adapt what does not, and share their experiences with others. Gender inclusion is not about erasing differences. It is about ensuring that all children, regardless of their gender […]
Exploring Gender Dynamics in Forest School Kindergartens
This report explores how gender dynamics manifest in children’s play and interactions within outdoor kindergarten environments that follow the Forest School pedagogy. Developed under the Erasmus+ project REGEN – RE-imagining Gender in Education in Nature, it combines perspectives from gender studies and outdoor education to examine how nature-based learning can contribute to more equitable educational […]
CHOOSING EDUCATION AS EUROPE’S DEMOCRACY SHIELD
If the EU is serious about building resilient democratic societies, it must recognise
that education is the foundation.
Decolonizing Education: What Does It Mean to Decolonize the Curriculum?
The ongoing influence of what many scholars call coloniality: the lasting impact of colonial ways of thinking and organizing the world (Quijano, 2007). And one of the places where this shows up most clearly is in school curricula
Democratic Education in Schools
The DESC project (Democratic Education in Schools) was funded by the Erasmus+ funding KA2, and it started in February 2022. This three-year project has the objective to put in communication democratic schools and state schools from four countries, plus a university, a school network, in order to start a dialogue and offer training to the […]
Statement on World Day of Social Justice 2025
On this Social Justice Day, we stand committed to the values of sustainable, inclusive, and democratic education. An education free from discrimination and accessible to all. Yet, across the world, this fundamental right is under attack. We are deeply concerned about the recent trends in the United States, where the Trump administration is deliberately eroding […]
QUEST Communication and Dissemination Report 2024
The Communication and Dissemination Report 2024 was produced by QUEST team in December 2024 as key deliverable for the reporting of the Operating Grant “Civil Society Cooperation in the Education”, in the framework of the Single Grant Agreement 2024. View pdf For more information, please reach out to Mia Schmallenbach: [email protected]
QUEST Events Report 2024
The Events Report 2024 was produced by QUEST team in December 2024 as key deliverable for the reporting of the Operating Grant “Civil Society Cooperation in the Education”, in the framework of the Single Grant Agreement 2024. View pdf For more information, please reach out to Mia Schmallenbach: [email protected]
QUEST Activities Report 2024
The Activities Report 2024 was produced by QUEST team in December 2024 as key deliverable for the reporting of the Operating Grant “Civil Society Cooperation in the Education”, in the framework of the Single Grant Agreement 2024. View pdf For more information, please reach out to Mia Schmallenbach: [email protected]