Ladies, Gentlemen, Dear Members, Dear Friends, There are moments, like this conference, where ideas are expressed and where projects take on meaning. I would like to especially thank Mr Dennis Gash, President of IACBE, for his presence. For 18 months, I have had the pleasure of ushering a new dynamic for the FEDE. A FEDE on the move, consistently growing internationally, consistently brimming with new ideas and ambitious projects. Our associative structure, thanks to a federative spirit, bears a globally-oriented project that embraces the values of Europe, that transcends national borders with respect to higher education, that contemplates the supranational as a new frontier, that believes in academic research and views knowledge as universal. Our project consists “of accomplishing”, “of initiating” and “of acting” on a global scale, of enthusiastically [lire plus]

On the occasion of the FEDE 2017 General Assembly held in Lisbon, Portugal, Claude Vivier Le Got, the FEDE Chairwoman, presented Marie-José Löwe, a representative of Merz Schule in Stuttgart, Germany, with the 2017 FEDE Award for Excellence in Human Rights. This award recognises initiatives taken by FEDE students, faculty members and FEDE schools with regard to human rights. It highlights outstanding projects that help to effectively promote the founding principles and human values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “It is our mission to make the values that federate and bring us together a day-to-day reality: the values of peace, non-discrimination, equality, justice, non-violence, tolerance and respect for human dignity. It is our desire that these values, those of human rights, enrich all of the learning experiences in [lire plus]

The Great Witness Regularly, via its site, the FEDE will offer you the opportunity to meet up with a person who holds, or has held, a particularly important role in the world of teaching, education, training or the construction of Europe.    Catherine Lalumière : “More than ever we need Europe”. Catherine Lalumière has been a minister and elected member of parliament on several occasions; she has held the posts of general secretary of the European Council, and has been vice-president of the European Parliament. Currently she is president of the Maison de l'Europe de Paris (House of Europe of Paris) as well as La Fédération française des maisons de l’europe (The French Federation of the Houses of Europe, le Relais Culture Europe (The European Creative Office) and finally president of the European [lire plus]

Jean Philippe Lefèvre: member of FEDE’s panel of experts. He provides his background in the following interview.         What type of work are you involved in at the moment? I am a qualified historian and have also gained the Diploma from the Institute of Political studies in Strasbourg. I am passionate about my principal activity as Professor of History, because I love to transmit knowledge to others. I am also responsible for lectures at the University of Bourgogne as well as doing the same in Ecoles Supérieures on the subject of the history of cultural politics, which is my second speciality. You are known as an expert in Cultural Politics; you are also very involved at the heart of the National Federation of Local Authorities for Culture [lire plus]