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Decolonial Approaches through Reflection & Exchange Toolkit

Consultation Response/Evaluation

QUEST’S Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on New Education Package

Toolkit/Guidelines

The Reclaiming Education Toolkit

Manifesto

The Change We Want: A Manifesto by Rural Young People in Europe

Article

by Martina Paone

Rescuing play: why schools should take it seriously

Statement

Joint Statement: A Roadmap for Every Child

Recommendations

Nothing about the Planet’s Future without youth

Zine

YOUDEX Zine

Statement

Call for a child-centred EU budget: Joint reaction to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Proposal

Documentary

VOLT Documentary

Quest Documents

QUEST Activities Report 2025

Toolkit/Guidelines

Nonviolent Communication Guidelines for Teachers

Toolkit/Guidelines

Guidelines for Teachers in Democratic Education

Event Report

IDEC@EUDEC Report

Article

by Malena Laguna

Towards Participatory Education

Article

Inquiry Based Learning – A Student-Centered Pathway to Knowledge

Research Report

Exploring Gender Dynamics in Forest School Kindergartens

Recommendations

From Eco-Anxieties to Action

Impact Report

VOLT Art Catalogue

Toolkit/Guidelines

YOUDEX Toolkit

Toolkit/Guidelines

Growing Beyond Gender: Practices for Outdoor Educators

Position Paper

Choosing education as Europe’s democrcy shield.

Article

Decolonizing Education: What Does It Mean to Decolonize the Curriculum?

Research Report

Democratic Education in Schools

Statement

Statement on World Day of Social Justice 2025

Quest Documents

QUEST Communication and Dissemination Report 2024

Quest Documents

QUEST Events Report 2024

Quest Documents

QUEST Activities Report 2024

Article

Adopting a growth mindset in schools: a way forward

Article

AI in Education : Navigating Opportunities and Risks in a Democratic Framework

Cala Wioska School

Cala Wioska School

Biography coming soon.

Creating a Safe, Inclusive and Supportive Classroom

Sehlim Charles

Biography coming soon.

Young Children’s Voices in Educational Decision-Making: Power and Participation in Disadvantaged Preschool Classrooms

Duygu Yalman Polatlar

Duygu Yalman Polatlar is an Assistant Professor at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Türkiye. Her research focuses on early childhood education, children’s literature, children’s rights, and children’s participation.

Alperen Avcı

Alperen Avcı is a lecturer at Muş Alparslan University, Türkiye, and a PhD candidate in Preschool Education at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University.

Rights-based Participation of Children with Special Educational Needs in Educational Decision-Making

Lenka Mazáková

Lenka Mazakova is a co-founder of the Slobodna skola. She specializes in inclusive educational practices for students with diverse needs and behavioural challenges in democratic school environments.

From Participation to Practice: How Evidence-Based Wellbeing and Equity-Focused Leadership Can Shift Power Towards Children’s Voices in Education

Geetika Goyal

Biography coming soon.

Jayne Carter

Biography coming soon.

Reimagining Educational Research Through Children’s Participation: Insights from Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches

Sarah Zerika

Sarah Zerika holds a PhD in Educational Sciences and is a Substitute Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Children’s Rights Studies. Her research focuses on children’s rights and participation in education, school climate, transdisciplinary approaches, and the ethics of research involving children.

Johanna Zelck

Johanna Zelck is a research and teaching assistant at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Her doctoral research focuses on children’s interpretation and negotiations of the generational order and adultism.

Maude Louviot

Biography coming soon.

From Consultation to Co-Creation: Child Leadership in Practice in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia

Nejira Pasic

Nejira Pašić is the Children’s Rights Project Lead for Southeast Europe at the Global Campus of Human Rights, where she leads children’s rights mainstreaming and programming, including the Child Leadership Team and Youth Advisory Group. She is also a Lecturer at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, teaching research methods, public policy and human rights.