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Switzerland: Report on Swiss and Swiss Red Cross Pledge, Taking Humanitarian Principles to action – innovations in humanitarian education

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Actions taken:

SDC and SRC believe, that promoting a more global understanding around the Humanitarian Principles among young people worldwide helps to foster greater acceptance and support to principled humanitarian action. This joint pledge contributes to the implementation of the IFRC OP320022 on Humanitarian Education as well as the ICRC Pledge SP320149 on the Fundamental Principles & the Auxiliary Role.

SRC School platform

  • SRC has developed the school platform “The Red Cross Adventure – an idea changes the world” http://ecoles.redcross.ch/dans-le-monde (French, German and Italian). The platform was launched in 2016 and includes different services like online modules, school visits by representatives of the SRC and didactical support. The following themes are included in this platform :

– International Humanitarian Law

– International cooperation

– Conflict prevention and non-violence

– First aid, Blood donation and blood cell donation, water- prevention.

– 150 years of History of the Swiss Red Cross.

The school platform will be further developed and promoted at least until 2020. Currently, SRC is in the process of adding the issue of migration to the platform.

An overview of additional SRC services for schools can be found here http://ecoles.redcross.ch/node/11286 e.g. chili and raid cross. The SRC school platform was also announced and shared on the IFRC Humanitarian Education Platform.

SDC School project

Project Humanity: Humanity can be learned – a school project and teaching method for raising awareness among young people.

Project Humanity, an SDC initiative, launched jointly with the IFRC, ICRC, SRC, Save the Children and Zug University of Teacher Education, seeks to raise young people’s awareness of humanitarian principles. The five-module project equips children with the learning tools they need to understand what humanitarianism is about and presents them with situations in which they can apply their reasoning and their own values.

  • https://gallery.mailchimp.com//Project_Humanity_EN.pdf
  • Project Humanity (source above): https://www.project-humanity.info/de.html
  • The project was met with such enthusiasm by students and educational circles that it has been exported to several other countries (further reporting on the international outreach under the pledge IFRC OP320022).
  • Promoting and implementing value-based education by Project Humanity is since May 2017 part of the SDC’s Education Strategy in Swiss humanitarian and development aid (Goal 3.5 -Sustainability, cohesion and resilience: Make use of the transformative role of education for sustainable development, civic participation, social cohesion and resilience / Goal 3.3.- Quality and relevance: Enable relevant quality learning that provides competencies for life and work and has a transformative impact on human development).
    In the Federal Council’s Dispatch on Switzerland’s International Cooperation 2017–2020, education is a priority theme and comprises both basic education and vocational skills development. During this period, SDC aims at increasing this commitment to education by 50% compared to the 2013–2016 dispatch period. The SDC Education Strategy sets out how to reach this objective through bilateral and multilateral engagement.

Inclusion in Swiss school curriculum

  • SRC and SDC actively promoted the inclusion of humanitarian principles and themes within the Swiss school curriculum. The following issues are already part of the school curriculum for the German-speaking cantons: Henry Dunant, Red Cross, and International Humanitarian Law.
  • Both projects, “Project Humanity” and “Adventure Red Cross” are placed on the “mySchool” platform of the Swiss television (https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/myschool) and registered on the Swiss web platform for teachers “Education 21 – éducation en vue d’un Développement Durable” (http://www.education21.ch/fr).
  • The accreditation of Project Humanity as official teaching material of the Swiss public schools is ongoing; some of the cantons have already included it (the Swiss public schools are part of the federal system).
  • During 2016-2019 several Swiss teachers have been trained in Humanitarian Education and in Valued-based Education in humanitarian Principles and Values.
  • In the same period, several hundred learners were sensitized about the Humanitarian Principles and Values; have been enabled to shaping their own opinions, to defend them and to use this knowledge and awareness to teach their communities.

 

Implementation completion:

Yes

Attached Files:

Project-Humanity_Newsletter.pdf
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