"Learning Spaces for Social Change – Conference"
How can civil society organisations collaborate in
order to enhance their impact on their fields of action? And how can
transnational collaborations succeed? What is our understanding of alternative
education?
"Learning Spaces for
Social Change" the conference we held in Frankfurt ,Germany from 6th
to 8th October 2015 was the final phase of the three years project
“Educational Innovations Incubator – Empowering Civil Society” started at
1.1.2013 and ended at 31.12.2015. It is a collaboration conducted by a German
CSO and three Palestinian CSOs, two based in Israel and one in the Palestinian
Authority. The main target of the conference was to bring together 40 social
activists and researchers fromEurope with whom CSO partners has shared and
discussed the results of the research while focusing on these objectives:
1.
Discussing challenges and dilemmas faced when
implementing innovative and alternative education methods and projects with a
multinational audience.
- Creating of a common language, relationships,
and as a result, a networks between the
participating organizations.
The working for the whole
conference time was together in working groups, Each working group has their own facilitator.
Furthermore there were keynote speakers who presented/discussed the following topics:
“ theoretical and practical
input for the working groups. The topics were :
1.
Alternative education
2.
Civil
society organizations collaboration
3.
Equality
4. Hierarchy of knowledge
