Education is one of the fields where individuals are being prepared, from the very beginning, to welcome or refuse “the difference”, and where they get intellectual tools for interpreting the reality they live in. Schools are the environment which can help human beings develop a sense of critical and independent thinking and the capacity to discern facts with rationality and tolerance.

In collaboration with some relevant partners, the Anna Lindh Foundation has already worked in its first three years in the field of Education, with the goal of training teachers of the region in teaching diversity. The Foundation will continue this work, which has produced some important pedagogical and networking outputs, by bringing together and federate in a collective endeavour those pedagogical and academic courses and practices which are enlightening on how to cope with inter-cultural challenges, and how to develop learning tools to better understand social, cultural and religious complexity.

During Phase II, the Foundation wants to acquire a larger role in that field, making Education the target of some of our reflections and actions. An organisation devoted to cultural dialogue cannot ignore this field, even if programmes and curricula are a matter of governmental policies.

The Foundation aspires at influencing the educational system in the Euro-Med countries by means of its work as on Observatory on Intercultural Trends and the role played by the Euromed Agora.