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D@dalos - International UNESCO Education Server

General Information about D@dalos

D@dalos is a Sarajevo-based Bosnian non-governmental organisation (NGO), with representatives abroad in Albania, Croatia, Kosova/o, Montenegro and Serbia. All its activities are coordinated from Sarajevo under a management team of five people, with the expert back-up of 5 country coordinators, 5 translators and readers, 6 trainers and 2 webmasters.

D@dalos aims to contribute to the building of a culture of peace, democracy and active citizenship through "Education for Democratic Citizenship" in BiH and other countries of South Eastern Europe (SEE). Although the UNESCO Education Server Program - comprising this web-site and teacher training for 1.690 teachers in SEE by now - is our main project, we also carry through other projects.

In the Education Server Program, D@dalos co-operates closely with UNESCO and the Stuttgart-based German association AGORA, pioneers in the fields of e-learning and civic education via Internet and CD-ROM. AGORA was founded by political scientists and is linked with the University of Tübingen (Contact: Ragnar.Mueller@dadalos.org).

Projects of D@dalos

D@dalos aims to contribute to the building of a culture of peace, democracy and active citizenship through "peace educationprograms" and support and technical assistance for inclusive participatory civic initiatives in BiH and other countries of South Eastern Europe. It carries out its work in close cooperation with schools, NGOs and community-based organisations and it places a particular emphasis on empowering young people and those who work with youth and children to organise for sustainable social action that promotes values of equality, equity and civic responsibility in the community.

UNESCO Education Server Program

Since 1999 D@dalos has been running the Education Server Program, which provides school teachers in 7 countries and regions of South Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia) a vast information resource in all the teachers' mother tongues on education for democracy, human rights and citizenship for use in civic education classes and the teaching of social subjects.

D@dalos is constantly adding new information to its website and updating and adapting its material to the needs and interests of the region's teachers. A large network of regional coordinators and partner organisations introduce the Education Server to schools and distribute free CD-ROMs containing the entire website contents to teachers, so that they may work offline at no cost themselves or their schools.

In order to enable the full use of this exceptional resource and to facilitate the exploitation of new technologies in accessing and exchanging information for teaching in schools, D@dalos holds regular seminar trainings for teachers in the use of computers, the Internet and e-mail. 1.690 teachers have been trained so far.

Support for Bosnian Youth

From its very beginning in 1999, D@dalos has been helping Bosnian youth groups and community organisations that work with children and young people, by facilitating local and international cooperation and exchanges, carrying out consultancies, providing fundraising services, conducting public relations and putting organisations in contact with suitable donors.

D@dalos is currently working with two organisations in Visegrad, eastern Bosnia. It has secured funds and acts as the official agent for Talija, an unregistered citizens association, which is running drama workshops for 11-18 year-olds. These workshops are open to all children and run in three age groups. Workshops culminate in performances for the local community and for other small towns in both entities of BiH.

D@dalos is also acting as a minor donor for the town’s youth group Urban Concept, which will use D@dalos’ support to provide a much needed telephone line and Internet connection for the establishment of a small Internet café for the towns’ youth. D@dalos has been working with Urban Concept since 1999 and its other support includes locating the original funds for Urban Concept’s current ‘UNESCO Small School of Music’.

Bosnian Resource Provision and Technical Support

D@dalos is currently planning a program of technical support for citizens associations in areas across the whole of BiH, which are suffering from under-development owing to their isolation from the main urban centres of economic and political influence.

Knowledge of what organisations and groups are doing to enhance social development in these areas is poor. In order to identify what initiatives are taking place in the poorer regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and what their needs and interests are, D@dalos carried through an unique 6-month program of field research. The D@dalos program for Resource Support and Technical Support will be founded upon the results of this work.

Humanitarian Help

Spontaneously, D@dalos has helped a couple to return to their village. A cow, two pigs and a few chicken enabled them to start a small farm where they lived before the war.

Objectives of D@dalos

Our wider objectives are:

(1) We want to contribute in the long term to the development of a democratic political culture through formal and non-formal education of adults and youth in South Eastern Europe.

(2) We want to assist in the development of civil society in all forms in the less developed regions of Bosnia-Hercegovina and South Eastern Europe.

Specific objectives of our work are:

(1) To significantly improve the knowledge and understanding about democracy and human rights.

(2) To facilitate access to electronic information resources and communication media.

(3) To support ongoing education reform processes, particularly in the field of Education for Democratic Citizenship.

(4) To implement projects through local partners that further international strategies and standards and support education policy in individual countries and that are designed according to specific needs of target groups.

(5) To strengthen regional co-operation if there is obvious added value.

(6) To provide technical support to facilitate the sustainable organisation and development of community based initiatives in geographically and economically isolated areas, according to their own needs and interests.

(7) Practical support for individual civic initiatives that support youth and children.

http://www.dadalos.org

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