II Alexandria Education Convention for Intercultural Citizenship Education in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

The Anna Lind Foundation (ALF), and the Swedish Institute Alexandria (SwedAlex), organize the 2nd Alexandria Education Convention from 16 to 18 December 2012 in Alexandria, Egypt. The focus of the II Alexandria Education Convention is to involve the selected participants in a consultation process for the launch of a programme on Intercultural Citizenship Education and the production of a learning resource in this field addressed to the formal and non formal education sectors.

The programme aims to support the development of educational practices and activities designed to help young people and adults play an active part in democratic life; in addition, it will support participants to exercise their rights and responsibilities in society, enhance their feeling of belonging to the community, local and global, as well as sensitising them to understand and appreciate the normality of different worldviews, customs and ways of life among human beings. This is a project which will help communities and individuals to find their voice in society and value the richness of cultural diversity as a source of social, cultural and economic development.