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Global Education Profile
GENE participant since 2003.
+ Ministries and Agencies in GENE
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Education, Finland
- Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI)
EDUFI (formerly The Finnish National Board of Education)
+ Other relevant Ministries and Agencies
- The Ministry of the Environment
- The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
- The National Commission on Sustainable Development
+ Civil Society and Youth Platforms
- Fingo (NGDO platform) Global Education and Global Citizenship Education
- Fingo hosts the EU-funded project Bridge 47, which is focused on Global Citizenship Education
- Finish Nation Youth Council Allianssi
+ GE documents
- Global Education National Strategy (2010)
- The Espoo Finland Conclusions on the Education of Global Citizens (2014) (FNBE, GENE)
- Becoming a Global Citizen (2011) (FNBE, GENE)
+ GENE Peer Review
Global Education in Finland, 2004
+ Concepts and Definitions
Global Education 2010 Strategy:
In this programme, global education means activity which guides towards individual global responsibility and communal global responsibility; the ethic of a world citizen, which in turn is founded in fairness and respect of human rights supports growth into a critical and media-critical citizen with knowledge and skills to act successfully as part of one’s own community in a globalising world promotes national and international interaction, inter-cultural dialogue and learning from one another; global education is a process helping us understand and appreciate difference and different cultures and make choices that promote development helps to see the earth as an entity with limited resources, where one must learn both to economise resources and to share them fairly, equitably and equally increases knowledge and skills which help us understand the ever globalising economy and influence the rapidly changing economy and its social and cultural ramifications enhances initiative rising from an individual aspiration to work for a better world and from hope of its realisation, and comprises human rights education, equality education, peace education, media education, intercultural understanding, questions relating to development and equity, and education for sustainable development.
Other concepts: Global Citizenship Education
+ GE specific budget
Global Education funding (MFA)
2018: 5,000,000 Euro
2017: 5,000,000 Euro
Source: The State of Global Education 2019
+ Overall ODA budget
2021: 1,245 Million EUR
2020: 1,082 Million EUR
2019: 989 Million EUR
Source: Development cooperation appropriations
+ GE in formal education
Key curriculum body: Finnish National Agency for Education
Education is human rights based, Global Education and UN Sustainable Development Goals are included in the curricula for general education at all levels.
“Basic education lays the foundation for global citizenship that respects human rights and encourages the pupils to act for positive change. Global education as part of basic education contributes to creating preconditions for fair and sustainable development in line with UN development goals.”
The school culture promotes a whole school approach to sustainable development.
“General upper secondary education encourages responsible agency as well as engagement in international cooperation and global citizenship in keeping with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
Curriculum for general upper secondary schools in a nutshell (MoE 2020)
Key network UNESCO ASPnet schools
GENE Peer Review Report, 2004 - chapter 4
+ GE in nonformal education
+ GE in other sectors
Global Education Research in Finland, Lehtomäki, E., & Rajala, A. (2020). Global Education Research in Finland. In D. Bourn (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Education and Learning (pp. 105- 120). (Bloomsbury Handbooks). Bloomsbury Academic.
+ GE in initial Teacher Education
Oulu University Global Education teacher training (EDGE)
+ Educational resources on GE
- Learning in, About and For Development Partnerships Handbook
- Schools Reaching out to a Global World Handbook
- Transformer 2030 Handbook (in Finnish)
+ Agenda 2030
+ EU Presidency last / next
2006 / 2019
Public opinion on issues related to Global Education
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