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The Development Education Summer School (DESS) is a week-long learning and exchange event for representatives of NGOs from the European Union, Candidate Countries and Economically Less Developed Countries (ELCDs - the so-called "South"), co-financed by the European Commission through the DEEEP project. Each year a different national platform together with DEEEP undertakes the task of designing the Summer School. It is meant for practitioners who want to initiate or strengthen actions to put eradication of global poverty and social inclusion on the political agenda through development education, advocacy, campaigns. The DESS is an event in which we aim to bring together people with different backgrounds, experiences, age, cultures and languages and to enable sharing, increase synergies, foster partnership. Accordingly to the edition and the topics, beginners are as welcome as experts and they will be evenly distributed in all the working sessions. (DESS 2011 for instance is open to participants who have a proven knowledge on Quality and Impact in DE, but DESS 2009 was open to all participants!) The DESS is a complex process where the learning is ensured by a mix of methodologies and activities designed in a coherent way to allow the participants achieve the expected results. Content and specific methodology of each activity are as important as the sequence proposed and the link between them.
DESS 2012 "Change LAB: Engaging Local Society in Sustainable Development" Czech Republic, June 24-30 2012
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