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21.12.2011 Congratulations to the Austrian team! "Global Actions Schools to Communities" has been awarded by the UNESCO Commission. To see the diploma click here 29.11.2011 The annual United Nations climate summit has opened in Durban, South Africa. If you would like to join the GAS team and sign the petition to the participants of the summit, click here... 23.11.2011 Business Academy in Ostrava-Poruba, the Czech Republic conducts an interesting Questionnaire. Read more... 08.11.2011 Lower Austrian Caritas School for Social Work from Wiener Neustadt is one of the first schools to conduct an international action. Read more... 17. 10.2011 Global Action Weeks have begun. From 17th October until 2nd of December over 3500 students and teachers are taking part in various development events revolving around many WORLD DAYS. Read more... 07.10.2011 Yann Arthus-Bertrand - French photographer, ccologist and activist supports our work. Visit the students section to read his message. 25.08.2011 News from DEEP! The National Strategies section has been updated! Read more on our website! 23.08.2011 Primary School Mistelbach 2 -Their Global Action Schools 2 Communities Project in the previous school year was about food and further mainly about bread. Read more... 1.08.2011 The new Global Action Schools, which joined the project this year, got awarded on June 20th in Lower Austria. In the governmental district of Lower Austria the ceremony took place and the certificates were handed by Hermann Helm, President of Lower Austrian Education Authority. Read more... 29.06.2011 GAS2C Conference for Sustainability in Lower Austria. The new Global Action Schools, which joined the project this year, got awarded on June 20th in Lower Austria. The ceremony took place in the governmental district of Lower Austria and the certificates were handed by Hermann Helm, President of Lower Austrian Education Authority. Read more... 20.06.2011 Business Academy in Ostrava-Poruba, the Czech Republic has organised another workshop in in the project Svetova škola. Read more... 18.06.2011 Matthias Haberl from Südwind had a chance to talk to Yann Arthus-Bertrand - French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. Read the interview and find out more about this great man! 15.06.2011 Austrian Global Action School LFS Warth wins Social-Award for their project “The Sweet Dream of the Woarthler Region” Read more.... 20.05.2011 Visit the School Stories section to read about events that took place in Slovakia on the Earth Day and read about the project Fair Trade - Let us think fair!. One of the Austrian schools has made a video on the subject of Fair Trade. Watch the video and tell us what you think. 12.05.2011 BORG Mistelbach has won 3rd place for its “Uganda Project” in the Ubuntu-Award which is a humanitarian award, given annually since 2006 by SOS-Kinderdorf and the publishing house Veritas. Read more... 10.05.2011 An article on the GAS project has appeared in the DEEP newsletter. DEEEP is a program initiated by the Development Awareness Raising and Education Forum of CONCORD that aims at strengthening capacities of NGOs to raise awareness, educate and mobilise the European public for world-wide poverty eradication and social inclusion. DEEEP is co-funded by the European Union. Read more about the programme and subscribe to the newsletter! 05.05.2011 One of the Austrian schools that take part in the activities under the Ethical Consumption pool has prepared a very interesting activity called „One World for all“. The aim of the of the project was to get to know a lot about different aspects of global topics. Read more... 01.05.2011 The International Workshop - Cracow 11 - 13 April 2011. Teachers and students from all partner countries have taken part in a workshop dedicated to global education, cooperation between schools and international actions. Read more... 30.03.2011 “If you eat a piece of our delicious cake, a piece of the World gets a bit better”. It can be that easy, as the 16 year old students from LFS Warth in Lower Austria impressively showed. Read more... 23.03.2011 On March 11th winners of the Polish edition of “MIRROR OF THE WORLD IN YOUR COMMUNITY” international competition from schools in Katowice, Szczecin, Oława, Tarnów and Gliwice and their teachers visited a Fair Trade certified coffee roasting plant JAVA Coffee Company, the sponsor of the prize and the meeting host. Read more... 10.03.2011 Here are the results of the International Competition! Congratulations to all the winners! The authors of Trade Not Aid and What’s the real price are going to Cracow to take part in the International Workshop! 2.03.2011 School Profile have kicked off! See the website for schools from differenct countries and find partner schools for International Action! 08.02.2011 International Competition in Austria, Poland and Malta! RESULTS!  Austrian, Polish and Maltese jury have announced their decision! Südwind, Welthaus, KOPIN and PAH have chosen the most interesting pieces. See the photos and comment on them! 26.01.2011 The results of the Austrian and Polish jury are out! Partner organisations from both countries have made decisions and you can see the winning pieces on the website. 30.12.2010 PRESENT YOUR SCHOOL!  In the NEW YEAR you will have a chance to present your school on the website. A special section dedicated to the international action and school profiles will appear on our homepage. You will be able to see what other schools in 5 different countries have been up to, read about their successes and find a partner for an international action! Ask your coordinating NGO for details! 19.10.2010 OUR 1st COMPETITION! MIRROR OF THE WORLD IN YOUR COMMUNITY  We have launched our 1st, international competition! This is a chance for the students and teachers to show what they have learnt in our project. You can't miss this! Read more for details. 02.09.2010  There are a lot of wonderful actions going on in many countries and here is one of them! Go to the School Stories section to read about an interesting Czech project dealing with racial issues! 02.07.2010  Global Action Schools 2 Community is the Winner! Our Project received the award by the Austrian UNESCO Commission for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Learning. This award is given for innovative and exemplary initiatives which engage in education for active global citizens. On June, 9 Welthaus-Coordinator Gudrun Ragossnig and Südwind Director Ingrid Schwarz received the award on behalf of project schools, local community actors and partner organisation who work with their full engagement for the project. The awarding ceremony took place in Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. The award underlines the successful work all of us involved in Global Action Schools 2 Communties and it shall motivate for further efforts. Because there is still a lot to do... 26.04.2010  Message of Didier Drogba, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Ten years ago, in 2000, 189 world leaders set 8 Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty and to increase choices and opportunities. This was an important milestone for diminishing poverty in the world, but to turn these goals into real points that count we need people like you from Global Action Schools 2 Communities, who recognize opportunities in their daily lives to combat poverty. We need people like you, who learn and investigate how their daily actions effect children and adults in other parts of the world. And finally we need people like you, who stand up and act, to make this world a better place to live in. With your work and efforts in Global Action Schools 2 Communities you are actively promoting and supporting what I stand for in my work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Programme: The fight against poverty around the world. We are all on the same team. Yours, Didier Drogba Didier Drogba was appointed as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador on January 24th, 2007. Mr. Drogba was born in Ivory Coast and now plays for the English football club Chelsea FC and is one of the most known strikers with fans all around the globe. “I don’t forget my origins,” said Drogba. “I have been given opportunities to succeed in life, but I constantly think about the ones who did not have this chance. We all need to contribute to help defeat poverty.” 22.03.2010  Today we are celebrating the UN-World Water Day! This year we are focusing on water quality and its importance in water management. Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet. It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy, women’s empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Recognition of these links led to the declaration of 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”. Our indispensable water resources have proven themselves to be greatly resilient, but they are increasingly vulnerable and threatened. Our growing population’s need for water for food, raw materials and energy is increasingly competing with nature’s own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which we depend. Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural wastes into the world’s water systems. Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change. And the poor continue to suffer first and most from pollution, water shortages and the lack of adequate sanitation. The theme of this year’s World Water Day, “Clean Water for a Healthy World”, emphasizes that both the quality and the quantity of water resources are at risk. More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war. These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential. The world has the know-how to solve these challenges and become better stewards of our water resources. Water is central to all our development goals. As we mark the mid-point of the International Decade for Action, and look forward to this year’s MDG Summit, let us protect and sustainably manage our waters for the poor, the vulnerable and for all life on Earth. THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON WORLD WATER DAY 09.03.2010 We are happy to inform that 200 people have already registered on our website! We have decided to extend the registration deadline until 19 March 2010 and give everybody a chance to join us. As some of you had problems with the registration process, here are some things to remember: Make sure your e-mail address is correct! Remember to check your mail and your SPAM and CLICK ON our link. 24.02.2010 We are happy to launch a website accompanying the project Global Action Schools2Communities. It is divided into three main parts aimed at different audiences: Students, Teachers, Local Partners. Students will find an additional section Funzone where they relax and have fun. Everybody will enjoy the Photo gallery with brilliant photos from around the world. The actions performed by the schools will be documented separately under School Actions. You can also find information here about the project and participating NGOs. 24.02.2010 On this website you will find a number of contests on various topis, directed to the Students or to the Schools. So follow our news, take part and win fantastic prizes! Get involved in our 1st contest! The school which register the most students by 8 March 2010 will get an attractive movie concerning global issues. Register now!!! |
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This website is a part of the international project: "Network of Schools and Local Communities contributing to achievement of the MDGs" conducted in 5 European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Malta, Poland and Slovakia. 2009-2012.
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