Knowledge sharing, education, reading and learning don't advance the understanding of the root cause of global social-economic imbalances. What can be done?

Dear Mr Piebalgs-

UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon considers that Global Citizenship Education is a crucial part of the quality education that should underpin the new Post-2015 Framework. Do you, and the European Commission agree?
And will you also support it during the Post2015 negotiations?

With kind regards-
Maarten

I am living and working in Greece. I am Italian. Both countries are facing a dramatic crisis and both lack of national strategy and funds for Global Education that is a strongly marginalized and secondary issue, in education. The results is that political and social extremisms, far from the EU core values of solidarity and tolerance, raised and grow up very fast and very dangerously. My question is: when EU will demand a serious commitment by Member States to develop an effective national strategy and to invest financially on Global Education as one fundamental tool for a democratic society?

How can education contribute to a genuine culture of participatory democracy, in the EU and beyond? What is C. Piebalgs vision for this?

Dear Commissioner Piebalgs,
please elaborate on the financial support of the European Commission for global education in the next MFF. How much money will be dedicated to the support of global education, will there be any significant increase?
Thank you
Michal

what are your plans for University education to students who can't afford tuition fees ??

Dear Commissioner,
how do you envision moving global education from the paradigm of "helping others" towards a more responsible citizenship of all? How do you plan to include the people from the Global South into the process?
Thank you
Best regards,
Michal

Dear Commisssioner Piebalgs,
how do you plan to support research in global education and networking of stakeholders? There are many new publications, trainings and seminars on global education, but many have only very little basis in good research. Also, relevant stakeholders in global education do not cooperate efficiently: the university sector is mostly dettached from the primary and secondary-level education. NGOs also operate individually.
My two questions are:
What is your plan for research in the area of global education?
How do you envision to strengthen cooperation of stakeholders active in the global education?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Michal

Dear Commissioner Piebalgs, 65 million girls around the world are out of school. While educating girls with nine years of quality education has proven to help break the cycle of poverty not only for them but also for their families. I believe that these nine years of lower secondary education as well as Global Citizenship Education for all are essential for the Post 2015 framework. Will you support it? With best regards, Sabine

Education has to be global citizenship education & education for sustainability, otherwise it's futile. Do you agree, Mr. PiebalgsEU?

Dear Commissioner Piebalgs, as part of its three-year advocacy programme to strengthen and structure the dialogue between Alliance2015 members and the EU, and ahead of various EU and UN events on the issue, Alliance2015 hosted a Roundtable on Education in Copenhagen on March 31st. At the roundtable a new study on 'enhancing EU impact on education post-2015 was presented: http://www.alliance2015.org/index.php?id=66
My two questions to you are related to some of the recommendations from this roundtable:

Question 1. Financing to education is inadequate and EU's support is not primarily directed at those countries, groups and education levels that are most in need. The EC still allocates a large part of its aid to middle-income countries and its own neighbourhood, although the new programming period includes more fragile states. This seems contradictory to ensuring that no one will be left behind in education due to lack of resources. Will you support a re-direction of EU's support to low-income countries? And if yes how?

Question 2. Findings from our study and other evaluations show that there is a shortage of education expertise in the EC, which is a great hindrance to increasing impact. Education expertise is vital for proper involvement in the GPE and global education settings. It is central to ensuring coordination with member states, not least to ensure qualified support to the work on equality and quality.So my question to you is what is done to strengthen education expertise in the EC? Kind regards, Anne Sørensen, Global Education Programme Manager IBIS (member of Alliance2015)

Dear Commissioner Piebalgs, what do you think is necessary for education to prepare children, and especially girls, in the best way to create a smooth transition to the job market?

Mr commissioner, universality has been one of the big principles and priorities in post2015 discussions. EU has supported that too. What will unviersality mean for Europe and europeans? Could global citizenship education be the tool to make new mindset ?
Thank you! Rilli

The EC has the opportunity to stand out as a role model in the financing of education: through a planned progression towards achievement of the 20% commitment to basic health and education and in delivering a commitment commensurate with its leadership role in the upcoming GPE replenishment. How far can this opportunity be captured so that the EC both demonstrates its leadership while encouraging other donors to show similar ambition?
Olive Towey, Concern Worldwide/Alliance2015