Honorable Mention Award to the Global Dignipédia Project

The Global Dignipedia project: Systematizing, Deepening, and Defending Human Rights in the Context of Globalization, which includes the Centre for Global Studies of the Universidade Aberta as an Associate Institution, was recently distinguished with an Honorable Mention within the scope of the V Ibero-American Award for Human Rights Education Óscar Arnulfo Romero.

This annual award is promoted by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI) and aims to “recognize the work of organizations that have acted exemplary in the defense and promotion of human rights through education.”

The Global Dignipedia project (EEA Grants – Active Citizens Fund | Active Citizens Program – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/Bissaya Barreto Foundation) aims to empower students, schools, and universities, as well as education and socio-cultural action agents, to foster a culture of human rights, bringing together various educational, academic, and civil society institutions, both national and international.

The results of this project include:

  1. Two human rights dictionaries (one global dictionary aimed at specialists but also at the general public; a pedagogical dictionary created by children and young people – together with their teachers – for school-age children and youth);
  2. A digital platform, freely accessible, where both dictionaries are available;
  3. A set of activities prepared to promote capacity-building and awareness-raising for human rights among schools, civil society, and academia, according to different stages and levels of learning for the target audiences.

For the national phase of the V Ibero-American Award for Human Rights Education Óscar Arnulfo Romero, the 2024 jury awarded the 1st place to the project MEERU Opening Path, the 2nd place to the project EPRIS E-learning in Prison Context, and the 3rd place to the project Agents of Transformation 3 C’s. The two honorable mentions were awarded to GLOBAL DIGNIPEDIA and the ALTO CINEMA project.

Congratulations to all the awardees, and we invite everyone to visit the platform and the networks of the GLOBAL DIGNIPEDIA project (Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube), to increasingly make possible a global culture for human rights.