CISU Education Weekend 2024 - The impact we create

CISU's Education Weekend is an annual event that gives CISU's members the opportunity to meet across different communities, dive into current themes about development work, civil society, and the future.

Education Weekend 2025

At the Education Weekend 3-5th of October 2025 at Askov Folk High School, we will shine a light of the role of civil society and how it might develop in the future. We will celebrate civil society and democracy, CISU's 30th anniversary, and the diversity among CISU member organisations. 

The program for the 2025 Education Weekend will feature different tracks, with framed discussions, workshops and reflections. Read more below.

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Program 2025

What kind of civil society does the world need?

Luckily the world is changing! Too long has inequality been perpetuated. But is it the change that we want to see? And what can we do to continue to support the betterment of human life, nature and societies?

At this annual weekend, we want to widen our horizons to understand even further which world we inhabit, and what kind of civil society CISU should support in the coming 30 years?

Workshop tracks

We have gathered the workshops under three tracks, see further below for which workshops that are planned for each track. There are three sessions during the weekend with workshops.

During each session, there is also an Activity track where you can engage yourself in something more physical (walk & talk/ dance workshop) or in a relaxing activity (movie screening).

CISU celebrating 30 years of active members

CISU celebrates 30 years of existence. 30 years where active civil society organisations in Denmark through their global partnerships have established an organisation that has grown and secured more and more funds for development work. We will indeed celebrate this with you all. Through events Friday and Saturday evening, we will ensure this weekend looks back on what has shaped CISU and in return; CISU member organisations.

Please bring your historical artefacts

Have they gone all archeological? Somehow, yes. So please do bring one or two funny (and small) items from your organisation’s “archives” that can speak for itself. Then we will set up a small exhibition to commemorate from whence we came. We are not aiming for a marketplace of merchandise, but rather a walk down memory lane.

Plenary

Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, we have a plenary session where we are all together. These sessions are aimed at common perspectives and action.

Language

We aim to deliver all messages and plenary sessions in English.

Workshops are either Danish or English, and you can be guided by the title of the workshop. If written in Danish, the workshop is in Danish, and if English title, it is in English. We can unfortunately not undertake translations into other languages.

Workshops

På Højskoleweekenden 2025 har vi tre spor med en række workshops, som du kan dykke ned i herunder. Derudover har vi et "aktivitetsspor", som byder på alternative måder at engagere sig på. Programmet findes kun på engelsk og vil blive opdateret løbende.

Track 1: The role of civil society

What is the role of CISUs member organsations? What is the role of partner organisations? And what is CISU’s role? 

We need to be clear on what alliances we are forging. Who we stand side by side with. Based on all the things we can do, how do we strengthen our position in this world, we are entering?