European Values

ongoing

The “European values” Network includes eCampus University and 5 high schools from Italy (2), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), and Greece (1). It also includes as a sub-contractor CesUE, which provided the national experts to the Italian pilot project on European civic education and manages EURACTIV Italy. The project aims at introducing systematically EU topics in the Partner schools teaching and activities. To this end the project includes various kind of activities within a clear strategy and specific milestones and deliverables. In the first year there will be initial teachers training sessions on EU issues and workshops specifically devoted to the construction of a vertical curriculum of European Civic Education, the syllabus and teaching material with the help of eCampus and CesUE experts. These deliverables will be tested in the second year in the partner schools. They will be upgraded on the basis of the the feedbacks by teachers and students, in order to be implemented again in the third year, and then become structural feaures of the schools' programs. Every year each school will identify a specific issue related to European values on which its students want to focus. On that topic there will be workshops with students with the help of eCampus. There will also be a public event involving European policy-makers to create a direct interaction between students and institutions and show that the EU is not far away. The latter will be organised in cooperation with CesUE, which will also run workshop with students on “communicating Europe”. From the second year, schools will also launch an internal contest on the EU to select students to participate in a “European Values” summer schools, with students and teachers from all partners. Within the summer school there will be also one session involving European policy-makers to interact with students, organised in cooperation with CesUE. Through CesUE the EURACTIV Network will be involved as a media partner.