Project "European citizenship"
Entrance to the gallery Our project "European citizenship" aims at developing an active European citizenship both in school and in society in which we live, along with the exchange of cultural traditions, attitudes and values to compare the countries participating in the project.
Crucial for us would be to find space for realizing the objectives of civic education in the curricula of different schools: general, vocational, technical, to clarify how other countries achieve similar objectives, and to define what it means for students to be " good citizen. " We also hope that the project will contribute to the effort to fight prejudice, increase tolerance, to encourage democratic values, to improve communication skills and knowledge of foreign languages. Through interaction with local authorities and organizations, students will be able to develop skills in project management, to acquire research skills. In addition, teachers will be involved in implementing cross-curricular, will acquire better skills in information technology. The project will contribute to the sharing of ideas, concerns and priorities through the exchange of knowledge, best practices and experiences and to generate a deeper interest in active citizenship.
We intend to achieve our goals developed through detailed three-year scheme of work. Activities such as presentations, surveys, questionnaires, meetings with representatives of government and political parties, debates, school festivals, video conferencing and more. will be an integral part of our project. During one of the meetings of the project we intend to visit the European Parliament in Brussels and Debating the issues of citizenship. Exchange of students and regular project meetings will enable us to analyze, adjust and improve our work.
The results of the work will be published and distributed. Booklet describing the content and methods of civic education on national and European level; CD-s, web site design, collages and posters will show the importance of such a project. We intend to spread your expertise through articles in newspapers and magazines, mini-exhibitions, presentations on local radio and television and by conducting regional workshops.
We are confident that this project will be of great importance for the participating schools and communities in which they live and work.
Activities
First year:
1. We will prepare a presentation CD for each school, city and country as pay particular attention to maternal and English and will be posted on the website of the school in order to learn more about the partner schools.
2. Questionnaires will develop and improve the overall testing methods. Through questionnaires will try:
A. To present the status of civic education in different schools (high schools, vocational and technical) in each of the participating countries and outline the differences.
B. To find topics related to national citizenship and European citizenship education.
C. To see what students know and what they think about it.
3. To analyze the questionnaires and the results are put on the website of the school.
4. To compare systems of civic education in all participating countries and the methods used in their implementation.
Second year:
1. To improve the methods used to achieve the goals of civic education.
2. To test methods in teaching in various secondary schools in each of the participating countries.
3. To develop an evaluation system established methods - interviews with students, teachers and parents involved in the project.
4. Through visits and meetings with local authorities, associations, political parties, parliament to review the activities of institutions which contribute to implementation of the civilian and democratic principles.
5. Through the exchange of students to contribute to knowledge of cultural and civic traditions in the participating countries.
6. To organize student debates on various European issues and to encourage students to develop projects on them (eg: school festival "I am a citizen of ..."," School - Dream ").
Third year:
1. To establish common questionnaires, in order to permit students and self-disclosure of how they achieved their goals - to be good citizens of their country and European citizens.
2. To organize a video conference or Skype for citizenship.
3. During the exchange of students will visit the European Parliament in Brussels, will meet with members of parliament and discuss issues related to citizenship.
4. To create a booklet made by students and contains a summary and results of the three-year business.
Annual activities
1. Exchange of students between participating countries.
2. Project meeting.
3. Visit of Directors.
4. Placing materials on the project Web pages of schools.
5. Collecting and analyzing information from students about:
A National Citizenship in the curriculum.
C. The European Union, Past-Present-Future.
S. opportunities and rights that we in the European Union.
E. The importance of European citizenship.
6. Analyzing the information gathered.
You can download all documentation from here!
All materials of the whole project can be downloaded from here!
