This webinar, co-developed with PLATFORMA, aims to explore how local and regional governments, alongside communities, can strengthen democratic engagement through global education. It will be hosted on Zoom. Register here.

This event is the second event in the new ANGEL Research to Policy Webinar Series, which focuses on key issues identified by policymakers through GENE’s policy learning processes — offering insights, evidence, and dialogue grounded in real policy needs.

This webinar will explore how local and regional governments, together with local stakeholders, can lay the foundations for rebuilding trust in democracy. It will showcase inspiring local practices presented by local and regional government representatives, illustrating how local Global Citizenship Education policies, and community-based GCE, can contribute to fostering citizens’ critical thinking and trust in democracy. 

Participants will gain insights into how local and regional governments, together with educators, civil society organisations, and other local stakeholders, can mobilise GCE to build inclusive spaces for dialogue, empower marginalised voices, nurture solidarity, and foster collective action and civic engagement.

PLATFORMA is the pan-European coalition of towns and regions – and their national, EU and global associations – active in city-to-city and region-to-region development cooperation. They act as a hub of expertise on European local and regional governments’ international action, and aim at boosting European local and regional governments’ contribution to EU development cooperation policies and international frameworks. Visit their website.