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The Global Marshall Plan initiative gets on as an integrative platform for a world in balance. Consisting of a network from more than 5000 supporters from all levels of society, it gathers politics, economy and civil society with five core demands to a fairer globalization.

The Democratic Society East Foundation (DSE) is a public service organization established in 2002. The Foundation's mission is the development of civic society through education in Poland and countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Major activities conducted by DSE in recent years:

I. Global Education Projects
a) Long-term program "How to Operate and Cooperate, How to Exist and Co-exist in the Modern World" – educational materials and training for the teachers
b) Competitions for the Best Initiative in the Field of Global Education (2005, 2007)
c) Global Education Festival (2006)
d) Volunteerism in the East (long term program)

II. Journalists in Civic Society
a) International seminar "Improving the Media. An International Exchange of Experience" (2005)
b) Free Media and Election Campaigns. Polish-Ukrainian Seminar for Television Journalists (2005)
c) Workshops for Beginning Journalists of the Polish Émigré Press in Moldova and Ukraine (2005)
d) Television Investigative Journalism as a Tool in Fighting Corruption – Training for Ukrainian Journalists (2006)

III. Support for Local Democracy in Ukraine
a) Cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian Local Governments
b) "Welcome to Europe" – Support for the Crimean Tatars
c) Polish-Ukrainian Youth Cooperation for the Development of Local Society

IV. Project to Activate, Educate and Integrate Senior Citizens

Foundation for Citizens Cooperation tries to assist, coordinate and integrate democratic NGO-activities in Germany with a clear focus on smaller initiatives and Self-Help-Organisations.

The Foundation Education and Development is the Swiss centre for Global Education. We support teachers in Switzerland at all levels in their daily work by giving them impulses for their lessons which are directed towards a viable development in a global society. We sell and lend over 800 tried and tested teaching aids in German, French and Italian language. We provide teacher training. We inform and advise with relation to Global Education. We are part of a network of national and international organisations having similar aims. The services of the Foundation Education and Development are available at four regional centres throughout Switzerland: in the German and Rhaeto-Romanic-speaking region, in the French-speaking region, and in the Italian-speaking region.

Since its establishment in the year 1976 the Institute for Peace Education (ift) has consistently pursued the goal of bringing the problems of peace and conflict into the forefront of public consciousness. The work in this area is based on the efforts to bring the results of scientific study – in particular peace research – combined with practical work, which is relevant for peace education into the public eye.
A central task for the ift is the promotion and development of the educational program "Global Learning".

The Institute for Peace Education was established as a recognized peace-educational service institute. The programs and curriculum are freely available and used by persons from all education ranges and interested parties. The ift maintains an office in Tübingen and works within a group of experienced specialists from science and research, education and media, as well as electronic design. All publications and media are published in an own publishing house. The whole work is financed through grants and the contributions of the members.

The unification of different and international approaches like education for development, intercultural education or peace education is one of the important tasks of the Institute for Peace Education. Through this the ift contributes new visions for global education and learning in the 21-Century. These visions also include a recollection of past values.