Integration of the European youth policy into the hifger education EU curriculum

forthcoming

This Jean Monnet module has the following aims: - To equip students and young professionals with knowledge of European Union issues relevant to their academic and professional lives and to enhance their civic skills - To promote innovation in teaching and research (e.g. cross-sectoral and/or multidisciplinary studies, open education, networking with other institutions) The proposed project aims to develop and implement module focusing on European Youth Policy for students of social sciences (political science, sociology, communication studies, journalism) for two main reasons. Firstly, the students for whom the course modules are being developed do not cover this EU field in their core curriculum, as their programmes limit EU-related topics to basic information on EU institutions and policies. As a result, they only have the opportunity to hear the introduction to the EU, and even this is limited to BA students of political science programmes. Secondly, as the generations of young people in Slovenia are shrinking, policy-makers need to develop answers to very pressing questions about the reasons, the consequences and how to deal with them. The main target group that directly benefits from the project are students of social sciences with different majors such as political science, journalism, human resources, sociology. We will enrol more than 100 students every year, some of them taking more than one course. We expect that our project will help improve the knowledge and skills of the students concerned, about 330 in three years, by offering them interesting, methodologically diverse and topical courses that will skyrocket in content. We plan to produce following outputs: 1. Curricula (3) for the module. 2. Teaching, including student-centred learning methods, involving students in defining the course content, setting their learning objectives and integrating different SCL teaching methods.