Events

The KED was founded in 1970 by the Lutheran Church of Bavaria with its main focus on promoting education on development policy in Bavaria. The KED`s educational work focuses on helping people understand the structures and relations that exist in our globalized world. It also tries to contribute to the creation of a just and more humane society according to the idea of One World. The KED`s aim is to make people
aware of the problems and the potential of their partners all over the world in order to enable them to act on the basis of greater awareness.

Providing information and promoting education through:

• A library and database related to development policy on the Internet.
• The lending of books, magazines, brochures, educational and adult education material on topics related to global learning (slides, videos, CD-ROMS, games dealing with development policy, boxes with information material about Brazil, oranges, cocoa, toys, soccer, coffee.)
• The lending of fully prepared exhibitions (People Without Land movement in Brazil; interactive coffee tour; AIDS – let`s get away from pigeonholing.)
• Advice and continuing education for professionals.
• Seminars, lectures, presentations, talks and discussions on issues related to development policy.
• Activities and information desks at church events, local church congresses, and similar events.
• Study assistance program for foreign students (STUBE - Studienbegleitprogramm).
• Work related to Brazil: assistance for the partnership work in Bavaria.

Cooperation with initiatives and networks:

• Koalition gegen Straflosigkeit (alliance against impunity). Justice and truth for the victims of the Argentinian military dictatorship.
• Fair Play / Fair Toys – humane working conditions in the toy industry.
• Clean Clothes Campaign – humane working conditions in the textile industry.
• Development needs debt relief – www.erlassjahr.de
• Fair Handeln Bayern (Fair Trade Bavaria).
• Eine Welt Netzwerk Bayern (One World network Bavaria).
• Landesarbeitskreis Bayern "Schule für Eine Welt" (Bavarian state network: "school for One World").
• Runder Tisch "Globales Lernen" (global learning).

Public relations work:

• Biennial newsletter,
• Biennial supplement in the Bavarian Sunday newspapers
• Regular email newsletter.

Financial assistance for projects and financing of activities related to development policy in Bavaria.

International program for volunteers:
Going abroad for one year. Ecumenical learning in Latin America. Program for volunteers between 18 and 27 years of age.

Foundation Caucasus Environment (FCE) is founded in 1998 in Georgia. FCE is a nongovernmental, nonprofit public organization with professional staff on environment and education. The organization is oriented on sustainable development and social issues and its activities cover the Caucasus region. At the same time FCE is a member of several international networks, just like the National Platform of Eastern Partnership in Georgia https://eap-csf.ge and acts as a coordinator of Working Group 3 of this platform: https://eap-csf.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=298&Itemid=1396&lang=en-GB.
Moreover FCE is a member of the big international network Women in Europe for common Future (WECF) WECF http://www.wecf.eu. Furthermore FCE coordinates the Global Education Week (GEW) of the network of North-South Centre (NSC) of Council of Europe https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GEW-NETWORK_en.asp#TopOfPage.

The organization holds the GEW once a year in Georgia. The Global Education program in Georgia is updated every year according to the themes and comments which are developed at the GEW seminars. These seminars are organized by the NSC of the Council of Europe with participation of all national coordinators of GEW network. The organization’s target groups are schoolchildren and teachers, university students, lecturers, women groups, refugees and Itinerary Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the conflict areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The permanent staff of FCE is 7 person and about 50 volunteers (students, schoolchildren and teachers, women groups, farmers, fishermen scientists, etc). Donors of the granted projects are EU, USAID, Eurasia Foundation, different countries' embassies in Georgia, among others.

Some recent implemented projects are:

1. "Integrated Hotspots Management and Saving the Living Black Sea Ecosystem HOT BLACK SEA", financed by EU BSB ENI CBC, 2013-2016; (team leader)
2. "Identification, Management and Sustainable Usage of the Eutrophicated areas of the Black Sea Coastal Zone", financed by UNEP GEF SGP (the project coordinator) https://www.facebook.com/foundationcaucasusenvironment, 2014-2015
3.   "Strenghening the Women Action for Sustainable Energy Development in Gali and Zugdidi Regions of Conflict areas of Abkhazi"