Educating for Empowered Youth Engagements on the EU

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The European Union currently faces centrifugal forces on its values, its legitimacy, and its impact. The project 'Educating for Empowered Youth Engagements on the EU' (EYESonEU) will build on a 2021-2024 Jean Monnet Teacher Training grant which supported the development of tailor-made educational toolkits for teachers and students in Ireland. It has two priorities: 1. Design and deliver training courses on EU citizenship and policies: a. 9 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training courses for post-primary teachers, face-to-face and online, accredited by UCC. b. 9 CPD training courses for Vocational Education and Training (VET) educators, face-to-face and online, accredited by UCC. c. 2 transnational training courses for 12 Irish teachers, delivered in Brussels with hands-on institutional and cultural visits, accredited by a UCC digital badge. 2. Develop and disseminate digital training and teaching material: a. To integrate EU citizenship and policy matters in existing curricular and non-curricular research projects at post-primary and VET level (rEUsearch Projects). b. To support an EU-themed scavenger hunt for active learning of EU citizenship and policy impacts in daily life and at local level (scavEnger hUnts). c. To promote a framework of agonistic deliberation, through which students can engage on salient and politicised matters with peers, local stakeholders, and political representatives (Make Europe Personal (MEP) Moments). This project will develop, deliver, and disseminate training courses and teaching resources, using ICT for collaborative learning, to support active learning through research, gameplay, and deliberative methodologies. It will support teachers to empower young people's EU civic literacy and awareness of policy impacts at local level. It will reach 720 teachers and over 13,000 students aged 12-20.