Curiosity!
There are many ways to look at and think about European Citizenship. Would you like to explore some of them?
Then you have chosen the right course to exchange and further develop your ideas together with your fellow participants, trainers and resource persons!
This training course was developed to encourage the development of a critical, democratic and creative European Citizenship as an active social, political and cultural role to construct a shared Europe and in doing so, to support the implementation and quality of the «Youth in Action» Programme of the European Union.
The promotion of European Citizenship has been a longstanding priority of the Council of Europe and European Union alike. Violations of human rights within and outside the EU and the increasing change of patterns of political participation all over Europe are only two of many developments that have brought the two big European institutions together to work on European Citizenship.
This co-operation between the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sports on the one hand and the European Union’s European Commission on the other hand happens in the framework of a partnership with the following aims:
- to make young people and multipliers aware of human rights and the common values European citizens share and to provide them with the skills and tools to enhance their activities in this context,
- to train, at transnational level, youth workers and youth leaders as well as other multipliers in the youth field, as well as to develop and consolidate innovative training approaches in this context, and
- to sustain and widen existing networks of youth workers and youth leaders; to promote the understanding of and respect for cultural diversity and intercultural co-operation.
The Youth in Action Programme of the European Union has — since 2007 — made «European Citizenship» a key priority by aiming to “promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular.”
European Citizenship — key priority, and under construction!
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