Anja Van den Durpel is Head of Integration Services at the City of Ghent, tasked with helping integration and soothing community tensions in the diverse Belgian city. Here's how she does it.
The Berlin-based social start-up Kiron Open Higher Education delivers higher education to refugees. Through an innovative blended learning model that consists of online and offline elements, bureaucratic, financial and legal barriers are overcome.
Interview with Sachin Joshi, pioneering educationalist from India, at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
Closing remarks to Strasbourg’s World Forum for Democracy 2016, by " an interloper from Down Under."
“We say there cannot be two democratic schools that are the same. But you can find these four major rules in most of them.”
"All the problems in education you can relate back to the coercion in schools. To me the forcing of children is really against the rights of the child."
Ramin Farhangi in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Arleen Pimentel at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
"After a year, in the fall of 2013, I wanted to investigate the possibility of working towards being Minister of Education." Simone Haenen told her story at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
Antonia Wulff in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Kelly McBride at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
openDemocracy is partnering with the World Forum for Democracy 2016 to draw inspiration from a wide range of innovative grassroots and political initiatives worldwide, and kick-start the debate on what education can do for democracy and what democracy can do for education.
Derry Hannam in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Margarete Hentze at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
At the Council of Europe, the audience rose to their feet to applaud Brendan Schultz's statement that the election of Donald Trump was nothing to do with democracy and that the world must pull together in its defence.
