Group T-Leuven Education College is now an offical part of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network. As such, our teacher training program has entered a worldwide network of over 8500 educational institutes in 180 countries. Dean Stijn D'Hert received the UNESCO certificate during an official ceremony at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, April 22, 2010.
Milton George, Coordinator International Educating Class; Walter Lerouge, President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission; Dries Willems, Deputy Representative of the Flemish Government in France at Belgian Embassy in Paris; Stijn Dhert, Dean GROUP T- Leuven Education College; Livia Saldari, International Coordinator of the UNESCO Associated School Project Network; France Chainaye, Ambassador of the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the UNESCO; Nic Vandermarliere, Representative of the Flemish Government to France; Ulrike Storost, Associate Expert UNESCO Associated Schools
UNESCO
UNESCO wants to contribute to peace and safety by promoting cooperation between and inside of countries. Central themes of its body of thought are peace and human rights, citizenship, intercultural learning, and sustainability.
To spread its message, UNESCO founded the Associated Schools Project Network. This offers educational institutes a framework to spread the UNESCO body of thought via innovative projects and this according to the Four Pillars of Education: Learning to Know, Learning to Do, Learning to Live Together, and Learning to Be.
UNESCO-SCHOOL
Each and every educational institute is able to develop a UNESCO project. But to obtain the official status of a UNESCO school, the institute has to spread UNESCO's message in the longer term.
This is exactly what Group T-Leuven Education College does: its teacher training is entirely grounded in the Four Pillars of Education. Various cultures also receive full attention via innovative projects such as the Postgraduate International Educating Class.
