Universal Education Foundation
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Background
The Universal Education Foundation (UEF) is an advocacy foundation that works in co-creative partnerships towards Learning for Well-being with a spotlight on children and youth. UEF is a foundation registered in the Netherlands and is active in Europe, the Middle-East and the USA. For details about UEF activities please read about the different programs.
UEF works to support ‘Learning for well-being’. ‘Learning for well-being’ is a powerful vision for society that supports realizing our unique and full potential through the development of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects in relation to self, others and the environment. It means that children can develop holistically, in diverse environments that support well-being for all. Learning is fundamental to their well-being as it is the way they perceive, understand and create their reality. Nurturing their capacities to take responsibility for their own well-being and respond to the challenges of the 21st century is a big responsibility for all of society.
Initiatives
The Learning for Well-being movement is based on the development of five connected core programs, and their implementations is carried out through inter-linked but independent consortia or alliances. The programs are designed to inspire and engage people from all sectors of society to take more initiatives to make children’s and young people’s learning environments more conducive to their well-being.
Voice of Children
The Voice of Children inspires and encourages decision-makers to monitor and nurture the well-being of children and young people as they perceive it. It is a set of qualitative and quantitative instruments including surveys and focus groups designed to understand their perspective and for them to share their own sense of self – the feelings, attitudes, and ways of thinking and behaviors that come into play during their daily encounters with peers and adults in their learning environments and the impact of these environments on them. Using the data, UEF is developing indicators of children’s well-being, for policy reform, as an initial step towards developing indices.
The Elham Process
The Elham Process to inspire systemic change is designed to raise the awareness and active engagement of all of society in consciously nurturing the well-being of children and young people. It will recognize and support individuals, groups and organizations that have contributed significantly towards making learning environments more conducive to children’s and young people’s well-being, and will feature their work as inspiration to motivate others. It will focus particularly on people and initiatives from education, community-based organizations, media, health and ICT. Nominees, recognized for their contribution as agents of change, can opt to become Elham Ambassadors. Children and young people will play an equivalent role to adults in the selection process.
The Elham process was launched in Palestine in 2007. Click to read more about Elham Palestine.
Learning for Well-Being Fora
The Learning for Well-Being Fora are high profile conferences to inspire the global movement of Learning for Well-being. Each forum brings together local and global actors from diverse and multiple sectors of society, working in government, business, NGOs and foundations. They will provide opportunities to listen to children’s voices, showcase Elham Ambassadors’ initiatives, present the Voice of Children outcomes and well-being indicators, and promote policy glossaries to promote systemic change. They aim to inspire new cross-sector initiatives through an open space approach. At the global level, UEF organizes the Learning for Well-Being Fora in cooperation with partners.
Policy Glossaries
Policy Glossaries: UEF and its international partners have contributed to the creation and ongoing development of two policy glossaries: the European Global Health Policy Glossary and the Learning for Well-being Policy Glossary.
Mutual Learning for Well-being: A Discovery Jouney
Mutual Learning for Well-being: A Discovery Journey represents the history of capacity-building among UEF and its partners and collaborators. It represents a discovery, consciousness and awareness-raising activities and events aimed at unfolding and develop our key capacities towards learning for well-being.
