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The Syrian conflict has had devastating effects on the national education system. It has denied access to education to millions of children during a crisis that has endured for nearly 12 years. A large part of the population, who is now between 16 and 19 years old, at the eruption of the crisis was at […]

The ‘You Lead’ Final national contest for delegate students took place on May 30-31 and June 1 in Milan, Italy. In total, 61 students, 17 teachers and 18 people as audience and judges participated in the YouLead Finals. The teams were made up of 6 students each and one or two accompanying teachers. Participants were […]

We are saddened by the death of civilians, including of a child, during yet another missile attack in Kyiv by the Russian military today.   In recent weeks, we have witnessed an escalation of bombings during the day as well as at night, reaching a level never recorded since the beginning of the conflict in February […]

In September 2022 WeWorld launched the educational debate contest “EXPONI LE TUE IDEE!” – Edition 2022/2023, to actively involve young high school students in a national debate competition.   EXPONI is an educational contest based on the model of debate, which has the objective of making youth and their social environment protagonists of global challenges. The […]

After the local meetings to launch the debate contest, online and face-to-face preparatory meetings for teachers were held in each country involved in the YouLead project to present European teacher education. The national online meetings were useful for training interested teachers on the debate process and methodologies, also providing materials and content for the realization […]

OUAGADOUGOU, 21 March 2023. Over a million children in Burkina Faso are currently affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of over 40 per cent since the end of the last school year. Nearly one out of four schools country-wide are now out of service due to […]

The war in Ukraine has forced millions of families to flee their homes. Since the beginning of the conflict, 17 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance and protection throughout Ukraine. In Europe, 8 million refugees have been registered, most of them in neighbouring countries such as Moldova, Poland, Romania, Hungary […]

The SPEAK-UP Jean Monnet Module, started in January 2021, is a multi-interdisciplinary training course concerning EU studies on gender discrimination and violence. It is offered to both higher education students coming from Italy, Turkey, and Germany who do not automatically come into contact with EU studies, and operators working for international organizations representatives of the […]

The violent earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6th has resulted in more than forty thousand casualties. In Syra, after nearly 12 years of conflict, most of the buildings of the affected areas were already crumbling. This earthquake marks another disaster for the country: on February 17th, the numbers speak of […]

Thanks to the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps initiative promoted and financed by the European Union and part of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programme, you can apply for a unique volunteering experience with WeWorld in the humanitarian aid sector in different countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. The initiative is […]

In the framework of the YouLead project and the “Exponi le tue idee!” debate contest, in December 2022 4 local meetings were organized in which a total of 52 teachers and other relevant stakeholders of the educational community participated (school principals, educators, student representatives, representatives of local associations). The 4 local meetings took place in […]

While the humanitarian situation keeps deteriorating in Afghanistan and temperatures are decreasing to -20 Degrees Celsius, there are no positive developments concerning the ban of female Afghan NGO employees imposed by the Taliban administration. At the moment it is extremely difficult and unsafe for aid to reach women and children without the presence of female […]