Education
Education is a huge policy area to cover. COFACE’s expertise focuses especially on three key areas: informal education and parenting support, early childhood education and care, and finally striving for inclusive education. Read more on this section.
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On 30 May 2017, the European Commission presented its new strategy to support high quality, inclusive and future-oriented school and higher education. In its Communication School development and excellent teaching for a great start in life, the Commission identifies areas…
Despite the efforts in national and European level, bullying appears to be an escalating challenge. The ComBuS (Combat Bullying: A Whole School Program) project is a whole school program designed to empower students, teachers, school staff, school leaders and parents…
Anziani e non solo was one of the partners of the “work-based training” project, carried out from 2015-2017 under the Erasmus+ programme. The project aimed at contributing sustainable learning success and to secure the smooth transition from school to work…
Gezinsbond has recently presented the results of their study on families and healthy food. With the success of cooking books and television programs, the comeback of vegetable gardens, food coming directly from the farm or DIY food packages, healthy food…
AFG organised on July 3rd an expert meeting on digitalisation and the children's' use of the Internet. Internet has become a vital part of their everyday life throughout Europe. It offers many opportunities, but also bears risks for children and…
COFACE Families Europe is happy to welcome NELFA, the Network of European LGBTIQ* Families Associations, as a supporting member. NELFA works to ensure that children raised in LGBTIQ* families in Europe are granted the same rights as children from other…
COFACE Families Europe developed six key principles in the framework of its #ToysAndDiversity campaign, aiming at raising awareness and analysing the representation of children in the media and in toy catalogues. These six principles offer a critical view of the…
Given the number of health related problems associated with obesity, childhood obesity has come under close attention in the last years due to its worrying trends. The WHO estimates that 1 child in 3 in Europe is overweight or obese.…
1 in 5 children in high-income countries lives in relative income poverty and an average of 1 in 8 faces food insecurity, according to the latest Report Card issued by the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti. Building the Future:…
The second Annual EU Compass Forum on Mental Health and Well-being took place in Luxembourg on 8-9 June 2017. The event gathered diverse stakeholders such as policy makers and Member State representatives, non-governmental stakeholders from advocacy groups and care organisations,…
The Isadora Duncan Foundation organises every year an “Equality Camp”, an urban camp for boys and girls between 7 and 14 years dedicated to science, robotics, art, 3D printing and technology in general. Girls have priority access to the camp…
Summer holidays mean summer camps for most children. La Ligue des familles in Belgium has carried out a survey on this issue (What kind of camp? For how long? At what price). Looking for a camp is often a burden, this…
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