ISSA: International Step by Step Association Children’s wellbeing in their early years is crucial and it depends tremendously on the physical, mental, social-emotional, cultural, economic, and political conditions of the environment where they live or where they were born. The conference ‘Nurturing Environments, for the wellbeing of young children and families’, organized by ISSA aims […]
Pre-conference workshop ‘Partnering with Young Children across Sectors – Beginning a Movement’ offered by the L4WB Foundation Objectives This one-day workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of note-worthy practices in the collaboration between (young) children and adults, and to involve participants in contributing to the definition and development of a new international initiative that supports […]
Can learning for well-being over the life course be achieved through lifelong learning community centres in neighbourhoods? A new briefing paper, called ‘Implementing a holistic approach to lifelong learning: Community Lifelong Learning Centres as a gateway to multidisciplinary support teams’ argues that such centres can act as ‘one stop shops’ for multidisciplinary teams that respond […]
The children’s rights community will gather in Brussels for Eurochilds 2019 General Assembly and Members’ Day on 17-18 April, 2019. Eurochild, member of the L4WB Community, is organizing her annual meeting at the office of ‘KindEnGezin’, Avenue de la Porte de Hal 27, in Brussels. Participants will be expected to travel to Brussels on 16 April. […]
After the successful L4WB Community Day last year, we invited our community composed by young people and adults to participate at our annual Community Day in Brussels. After the amazing virtual launch we had for our new project called ‘Act2Gether’ in February, we were really excited to be able to continue the discussion focused on […]
Quality of Childhood at the European Parliament, on Tuesday March 5th, 2019 Helping, sharing, collaborating… are not words generally associated with adolescents. Drawing on insightful new neurocognitive research, however, Professor Eveline Crone – winner of the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands – will highlight the potential for learning and social-affective engagement […]
CONFERENCE The Conference Strengthening integration within early childhood systems – why and how? will bring together European and country policy makers and programs implementers to discuss about the rationale for strengthening integration in the early childhood systems and about ways in which it can be achieved. The conference will build on the results and the policy recommendations […]
On Tuesday December 4th, 2018 another Quality of Childhood (QoC) session took place at the European Parliament in Brussels. A ‘Republic for children’ where children and adults recognize each other as competent partners sounds like a contemporary idea resonant with L4WB perspectives, but Janusz Korczak created such a republic within a Jewish orphanage in […]
The Lifelong Learning Week began on 3 December and brought the 42 member organisations of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP), who address formal and non-formal education throughout the life course and across Europe, to Brussels. Many events took place at the European Parliament, including the Learning for Well-being Foundation’s QoC and Post QoC. The L4WB […]
Trainings on listening to children The Learning for Well-being Foundation and Eurochild are partnering in creating a training programme that helps children and adults partner in initiatives that support the right of children to be heard and taken seriously. The programme is aimed at equipping children with the necessary skills to be able to […]
