Reaching high!
The European Union and the Council of Europe support and organise a great variety of educational activities, publications and websites on European Citizenship through instruments like the Youth in Action Programme or the European Youth Foundation.
Some activities are run by the institutions or their partnership directly, but the majority is implemented in co-operation with partners such as non-governmental organisations.
All of these activities are developed and put into practice with the vision for participants
«to develop a sense of time, space and place in contemporary Europe, the skills and motivation required to be active agents for democratic change while participating in the building of Europe and to provide the knowledge to make informed and future-minded choices within this context.»
Among the entire variety of courses, workshops, training days and courses all over Europe, this course has a particular role to play as the central training course on «European Citizenship» by the network of national agencies of the Youth in Action Programme. It puts into practice «Priority 1) – European Citizenship» of the Youth in Action Programme by aiming to
«support the professional development of youth workers and youth leaders by extending their critical understanding of European Citizenship, by exploring and experiencing the potential of the notion of European Citizenship, and by enabling them to recognise and integrate European Citizenship in their youth work.»
The training course has five objectives to realise this aim, namely to:
- critically explore the meaning relevance and implications European citizenship in youth work in all its dimensions;
- promote and facilitate the active use of programmes and structures in support of youth work on European Citizenship, including the Youth in Action Programme;
- experiment and explore the potential of European Citizenship for active democratic change in society;
- associate the participants with the current discourse on European Citizenship (its concepts, formal meanings and expressions);
- exemplify the connection between European Citizenship, Human Rights, Democracy and Intercultural Learning and the underlying values.
Ambitious aim — high-reaching objectives!
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This page is part of the infopack for our European Citizenship Training Courses.
