The UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Development and Solidarity Among Peoples promotes post-graduate courses addressed to university students willing to get involved in international cooperation projects with this following goals:

• promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills for a concrete development of international cooperation activities;
• carry out critical analysis on the effectiveness of human rights in national, regional and international context;
• deepen the strategies of institutional budget lines with a particular attention to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity;
• examine different forms of international co-operation realized by international organism, governments and civil society organizations with particular reference to the role of NGOs.
   

The Summer School intends to draw the foundations of the pedagogy of international cooperation in order to promote a community able to promote personal and social identity in different contexts. The attempt of the Summer School is to promote the transition from a needs-based approach to international cooperation, the objective of which is to reduce shortcomings through the transfer of resources, to a rights-based approach that increases people’s abilities and freedoms. Goals that the Summer School aims to achieve are to:

• understand the context and the different forms of international cooperation carried out by international bodies, with particular reference to the role of NGOs;
• carry out critical analysis of the degree of recognition and effectiveness of human rights in national, regional and international contexts;
• know the strategies and policies of international cooperation in order to reflect on the pedagogic paradigm implemented for the promotion and the integral development of the people;
• acquire skills and tools useful for the realization of activities of international cooperation.

The new edition of the course "Training for International Cooperation" will take place in the period October 2020 - January 2021:

• program and information
• registration form