+ Ministries and Agencies in GENE
+ Other relevant Ministries and Agencies
The NGDO platform hosts the Global Education Working Group of NGOs and is part of the Bridge47 consortium project
+ 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
+ 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
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 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