Living Europe

ongoing

Bearing the name Living Europe, our project represents a comprehensive educational programme aimed at a gradual and innovative enlargement of our students’ knowledge and understanding of the European Union as a critical phenomenon of the concurrent era. Implementing a diverse variety of extracurricular and cross curricular educative methods, the project is designed in order to ensure a greater awareness of the EU among our students with a specific regard to the EU as an omnipresent embodiment of the European culture, freedom and democracy. Furthermore, the project is focused as well on introducing the matter of the EU as a natural result of our common quest for a shared European identity and one European homeland. Keeping in mind the title of the project mentioned above, the project is designed with a special regard to providing the participants with an original kind of a personal experience of the European Union community. That way, it is intended to combine traditional studies of the EU with experiential activities such as interactive workshops, social media and website mini projects and, most importantly, a combination of study visits of the most significant institutions of the EU. Concerning the technical dimension of the proposed project, the plan is to employ the three-year timetable for the purposes of a regular work leading to the final achievement of the overall goal of the project: to establish an inclusive, open-minded and vibrant European studies environment for our students and thus lead them to gradually develop a healthy, optimistic and objectively informed attitude towards the EU, an essential sense of their very own belonging to Europe based on their comprehensive recognition of the EU as a positive part of their everyday lives. Besides that, the project is also largely meant as a great contribution to our efforts of promoting a general acceptance of core humanist values such as inclusion and diversity within the future - the youth of Europe.