+ Ministries and Agencies in GENE

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
• Ministry of Education and Research (MER)
• National Commission for UNESCO

+ Other relevant Ministries and Agencies

• The Ministry of the Environment

+ Civil Society and Youth Platforms

• AKÜ Estonian Roundtable for Development Co-operation

The NGDO platform hosts the Global Education Working Group of NGOs and is part of the Bridge47 consortium project

• Estonian National Youth Council

+ GE documents

• Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development Strategy (joint strategy between the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Education and Research - not available online)
• Estonian Global Education Concept Paper (2009) Report from a seminar organised by AKÜ in collaboration with the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe

+ Concepts and Definitions

• Global Education (MFA)
• Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development (MER)

+ GENE Peer Review

Global Education in Estonia 2019

+ GE specific budget

Year 2019: 220,000 Euro (MFA funding)

Year 2018: 240,100 Euro (MFA funding)

Source: MFA and The State of Global Education in Europe 2019

+ GE in formal education

Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Devleopment are the main tenets of GE in Estonian curricula.

The key curriculum body, as of 1 August 2020, is a new government agency called Harno (Education and Youth Authority). This joint institution was established from Foundation Innove, Foundation Archimedes, Information Technology Foundation for Education and Estonian Youth Work Center.

Human rights and basic values in Estonian schools and education policy (2018) Estonia Human Rights Centre (commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Research)

+ GE in nonformal education

• Validation of nonformal education
• Youth and the World

+ GE in initial Teacher Education

ESD and teacher education in Estonia (MER)

+ GE civil society actors

NGO Mondo. The biggest NGO actor in Global Education and a strategic partner of both the MFA and sometimes the MER.

+ Overall ODA budget

49.45 million USD in 2019

Source: (OECD (2021), Net ODA (indicator). doi: 10.1787/33346549- en (Accessed on 23 April 2021)

+ Agenda 2030

Review of the Implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda in Estonia

Estonia Government Office (2020) (p.34)

+ Development policy documents

Estonian Global Education Concept Paper (2009)

Report from a seminar organised by AKÜ in collaboration with the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.

+ EU Presidency last / next

July - December 2017