For more information on the project, visit: www.sailingforsustainability.com 

For any other questions, please contact sailing@ge-forum.org

For more information on the project, visit: www.sailingforsustainability.com 

For any other questions, please contact sailing@ge-forum.org

(Sailing_for_Sustainability)Call for Participants (pdf)

(Sailing_for_Sustainability)Application Form (doc)

You will find more details in the Invitation_to_tender_GLEN Network Officer (pdf) and ToR_GLEN Network Officer (pdf)

For more information on the position as well as all further needed documents for the application please contact Laure Heinrich (laure.heinrich@engagement-global.de)

it’s already been a few months since the first GLEN Annual Event took place – however now we finally have the film online that Nadia shot and cut for us. Find it here, enjoy watching and reminiscing about the Annual Event! Or maybe you just find it motivating to come to this years’ Annual Event, which will in all likeliness take place in Slovenia? We’ll keep you posted!

And a very special thank you to our wonderful and skilled director Imre!

Every cycle, GLEN organises a Photo competition among their participants of both the GLEN Anglo and GeCo seminar group. Its purpose is to capture moments of the GLEN cycle from the participants and to find a practical application for the CONCORD Code of Conduct on Images and Messages which is an integral part of the GLEN Multipliers’ Training Cycle.

Last year, the GLEN participants decided on 4 categories to which they were then asked to submit photos for the Competition. Find below the categories and the winners. We congratulate the winners once more and thank everybody who took part in the Photo Competition of the Cycle 2011!

Category 1: People in motion/Les gens en mouvement

Miroslava Furjelová - Burkina Faso

Sowing seeds of hope

Women from the village of Kougpéla in Burkina Faso are sowing new varieties of onions during a training. It should help them to better food security and ensure income to their households. Then they can e.g. afford schooling for their children.

Category 2: Emotions

Maarit Cimolonskas - Georgia

I noticed that many Georgians do not like to express their emotions on photos, although they are completely different in real life. I wanted to make a photo with different generations on it (from the left: my host mother Hatuna, my host grandmother Ketino, our family’s little friend Sopiko). It was a beautiful morning, we were laughing and chatting but as soon as I started making the photo, both adults changed their grimasses. I wanted to ask “Why so serious?” and insisted something a little bit joyful. So the other is the outcome! Win!

Category 3: Speed/Vitesse

Maarit Cimolonskas - Georgia

We think we have plenty of time for everything our heart and mind want to do. But at one point we will look back at everything we have done, thinking why time has run so fast. Try everything, live, laugh and you will discover how far you can fly!

Category 4: Connections

Camille Raffier - Benin

“Un soir, aidée par une coupure de courant la nuit tombe une fois de plus sur ce village béninois. Entouré par la brousse avec ses animaux, ses plantes démesurées et ses esprits il vit. Après avoir ri, parlé, crié, les bouches se sont tues. Tous assis dans le noir la messe commence. Deux hommes s’en chargeront. Le premier tire de son sac de toile une vielle bouteille au verre poli, où on peut lire sur l’étiquette écorchée « DRY GIN ». Le deuxième, lui, le guide à l’aide d’une lampe de poche aux plastiques colorés. Plusieurs fois il tape dessus pour que la lumière revienne, sans broncher. De son autre main il attrape un de ces petits verres où se noyaient les grands esprits. Il le tend. On verse le liquide du bec cassé de la bouteille. Délicatesse du geste, une attention toute particulière. Le silence est tel qu’on entend cet alcool de palmier s’écouler. Tout le monde écoute d’ailleurs, regarde aussi, moment de communion nocturne. Les mains se tendent une par une, chacun son tour. Chacune leur tour, les moues se renfrognent. Certaines restent blêmes l’œil étincelant. Après ce silence un rire éclate, les bouches se mouvent, les langues claquent, la soirée commence.”

Between 28 March and 1 April 2012 they will meet in Jedlnia near Radom in Poland, to evaluate their activities, gain skills and inspiration for the next activities and to establish contacts, which will result in projects at European level. All of these aims will be achieved by using non-formal education methods, like simulations, Open Space, discussions in small groups and presentations. The project is an evaluation meeting that will enlarge particular competences of the volunteers, especially entrepreneurship resulting in the creation of a list of good practice and mistakes to be avoided in carrying out projects in the field of global education. Furthermore, the summary of new ideas for cooperation in this field will be prepared and the first stages of planning will be completed.

The long-term outcome of the project will be enhancing the quality of GLEN Network which prepares European youth for global citizenship and to organize citizens’ activities based on this experience in their environment and at the international level.

Project is financed by Youth in Action Programme.

RENew 2012 schedule PPTs v2(1)

Finding answers to questions like this was the aim of an internship which took place last summer in Benin. After having visited and spoken to 13 old and recent partners of GLEN all over Benin, Magdalena (Poland), Joseph (Benin) and Judith (Germany) organized a meeting of all these supervisors in Cotounou, Benin. During this day the partners discussed the positive and negative effects of the collaboration with GLEN, searched for solutions and simply shared their experiences. In the end they decided to create a network. The first activity of this network was to make a proposition towards GLEN aiming to improve the collaboration and communication as well as the effects of the programme.

The report of this special internship is downloadable below – in French only!

rapport_court_final

In summer 2012 we are going to catch up on Rio+20 (United Nation Conference on sustainable development) and organize four one-week seminars on the sailing ship ‘LOVIS’ focussing on the broad topic sustainability. The project will be realised in cooperation with B.Ö.E. e.V., ASA and GLEN.

Read more here!