#globalcitizenship #GENE #globaleducation #globaljustice #Europe Liam Wegimont has been involved in in education for social change, local and global, in formal and non-formal education, for over 30 years – as teacher, youth worker, teacher-educator, school principal, curriculum developer, lecturer, evaluator, and speaker. Currently, Liam is the Executive Director of GENE – Global Education Network Europe – the European network Ministries and Agencies with national responsibility for Global Education in European countries. He is currently on secondment to GENE from the Irish Department of Education from his position as Principal of Mount Temple Comprehensive School – a school increasingly devoted to education for sustainable development and global learning. Liam co-founded GENE (www.gene.eu) and the European Global Education Peer Review process, and has worked with Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs across Europe, in national policy, strategy support for and evaluation of Global Education. More recently co-founded ANGEL – the Academic Network on Global Education Learning. (www.angel-network.net). He is a member of the editorial Board of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning Institute of Education, UCL, London; and of Sinergias ED, CEAUP, Oporto; and has been visiting lecturer in teacher education and global learning at Fredrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nurnberg and Trinity College, Dublin.

— “Justice, Local/Global, Learning as Praxis” are the three distinctive characteristics of global education according to Liam Wegimont.

To cite this video-interview:
Bosio, E. [Dr. Emiliano Bosio]. (2021, November 23). Liam Wegimont Global Citizenship Education Interview Series with Dr. Emiliano Bosio [Video file]. Retrieved from

Useful links below:
👉Global Education Network Europe (GENE)

👉Academic Network on Global Education Learning (ANGEL)

Check also my new book “Conversations on Global Citizenship Education” (Routledge):

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Global Citizenship Education Interview Series provides a “video-roadmap” to relevant teaching experiences on Global Citizenship Education. “Interview Series on Global Citizenship Education” intends to be a valuable resource for three groups of viewers: 1) Educators who are seeking to develop their theoretical understanding of Global Citizenship Education into teaching practice 2) Researchers who are new to Global Citizenship Education and who seek dynamic starting points for their research; 3) General viewers who are interested in learning more about the history, philosophy, and practice of Global Citizenship Education.

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