Journeys From Fear to Fair: Human Rights in Focus
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2025
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-799-737-9
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-799-737-9
Tiivistelmä
The principles of human rights remain both a cornerstone of our European shared values and a pressing challenge in the changing landscape of today’s Europe. Despite our commitment to equality, fairness and justice, we also face recent new complexities of shifting political climates, migration, digitalization, and social polarization. In addition, human rights need to be studied within the broader context of planetary well-being, as humans are but part of the planetary whole.
Hence, the role of higher education is more vital than ever. Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences are not just European places of learning but also forums for critical thinking and civic engagement. The responsibility of higher education is to include human rights awareness in the European curricula of varied fields of studies.
Erasmus+ project JeS (Joint eStories: Journeys from Fear to Fair) has sought to bridge this gap by engaging in creative and empathic human rights dialogue and awareness and education promotion in the different fields of higher education studies in Finland, Belgium, and Slovenia, while collaborating with European NGOs and training and research institutes in Italy, Spain and Belgium. We hope this small publication will serve as a call to action and a source of inspiration for teachers, educators, students, volunteers, migrants and all interested in human rights topics. JeS, Together We Can!
Hence, the role of higher education is more vital than ever. Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences are not just European places of learning but also forums for critical thinking and civic engagement. The responsibility of higher education is to include human rights awareness in the European curricula of varied fields of studies.
Erasmus+ project JeS (Joint eStories: Journeys from Fear to Fair) has sought to bridge this gap by engaging in creative and empathic human rights dialogue and awareness and education promotion in the different fields of higher education studies in Finland, Belgium, and Slovenia, while collaborating with European NGOs and training and research institutes in Italy, Spain and Belgium. We hope this small publication will serve as a call to action and a source of inspiration for teachers, educators, students, volunteers, migrants and all interested in human rights topics. JeS, Together We Can!