Policy Paper – The Commodification of Education and the Prevalence of For-Profit Education Stakeholders: Education for all or education for profit?
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Policy Paper – The Commodification of Education and the Prevalence of For-Profit Education Stakeholders: Education for all or education for profit?

On World Teachers’ Day, SOLIDAR Foundation celebrates all those who are educating learners to adapt to their current society. The teaching profession is providing one of the most essential rights that all should have, one without which it is hard for any individual to reach self-determination and fully enjoy all inalienable rights. Though much is…

Briefing Note – Education for Environmental Sustainability
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Briefing Note – Education for Environmental Sustainability

SOLIDAR Foundation is launching its Briefing Note on Education for Environmental Sustainability which aims to highlight the connections between the several ongoing initiatives at the EU level regarding EES and GCE, to support our members and partners’ advocacy actions for improving the policy making around the topic. This occurs in the framework of SOLIDAR Foundation’s work on GCE, working on advocacy towards the mainstreaming of Education for Environmental Sustainability…

The EU Green Deal in International Partnerships: 
An examples’ guide of EU and SOLIDAR members’ work
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The EU Green Deal in International Partnerships: An examples’ guide of EU and SOLIDAR members’ work

The EU Green Deal in International Partnerships: An examples’ guide of EU and SOLIDAR members’ work Climate change and environmental degradation are some of the most pressing challenges of our times. The European Union’s answer to these challenges has been the introduction of a Green Deal for Europe, a policy strategy aimed at promoting reforms towards the…

SOLIDAR Foundation Briefing Paper – Individual Learning Accounts
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SOLIDAR Foundation Briefing Paper – Individual Learning Accounts

On 1 Jully 2020, the European Commission presented the Updated Skills Agenda. An individual right to lifelong learning was considered in the format of the Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs). The European Commission has committed itself to a proposal for a Council Recommendation on ILAs which is to be published towards the end of 2021. Based on…

Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2020
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Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2020

The Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2020, released by SOLIDAR Foundation in partnership with FEPS, is a research report on the topic of policy developments in the field of attainment of skills, through lifelong learning, for active participation in society. The Monitor takes stock of the digital and green transitions through which European countries are expected to undergo…

Briefing Paper 98 – Action Plan on the European Pillar of Social Rights
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Briefing Paper 98 – Action Plan on the European Pillar of Social Rights

On 4 March 2021, four years after the proclamation of  the  European Pillar of Social Rights in Gothenburg, the European Commission presented its long awaited Action Plan for the Social Pillar. With this new Action Plan, the European Commission aims to turn principles into actions “for a strong Social Europe that focuses on jobs and skills for the future and…

ESRM Synthesis Report: Enabling Space and Economic and Social Rights in Covid-19 times
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ESRM Synthesis Report: Enabling Space and Economic and Social Rights in Covid-19 times

This Synthesis Report brings together the main findings of the Economic and Social Rights monitoring reports (ESRM): sub-regional and country monitors published throughout 2020 by the SOLIDAR Network’s Members and partners.  The geographic scope of the reports covered Central America, the Andean Region and the following countries: Burkina Faso, Cambodia, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and Senegal….