European Values through European Intelligence Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Values through European Intelligence

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project is aiming at developing a state-of-the-art approach in the provision of common European values to adult learners and beyond. The methodology will be basing on the principles of Cultural Intelligence (CQ). Cultural intelligence is a rather new methodology that can be understood as the capability to relate and work effectively across cultures. This approach will be transferred and further developed as a practice model for European Intelligence (EQ), being easily useable and transferable to different learning environments working in the provision of common European values.In the past years the attractiveness of Europe as a common idea and model basing on shared values and principles have seemed to decrease constantly in many member countries throughout Europe. On the other hand, respect for shared European values has always underpinned EU actions in education and youth. In 2015, the European Commission and the EU Ministers for Education committed to “strengthen their actions to ensure that children and young people acquire social, civic and cultural competences and enhance their critical thinking”. In order to regain a stronger commitment of European citizens towards common European values, new and attractive measures have to be made at all societal levels including the education of youth and adults.Target groups of the project will primarily be teaching staff, stakeholders and multipliers in adult and youth education. The overall objective is to build up the target groups’ capacities in teaching European values by using the EQ methodology. Voluntary staff (i.e. in integration courses) shall be addressed as well. End beneficiaries of the project are adult and young learners, including newly arrived migrants and refugees. During the project lifetime, it is envisaged that about 375 participants will benefit directly from the project results.Main result of the project will be an electronically accessible, multilingual guide book to the European Intelligence (EQ) methodology with recommendations, teaching examples and resources, enabling teaching staff, stakeholders and other learning environments like self-directed learning circles to improve their skills and abilities in European values teaching and learning. Multiplier events will take place at regional level in order to promote the project outcomes. Additionally the project will provide the following results:- A common documented understanding of fundamental values in Europe, taking into account the different experience and conditions in the participating countries;- A joint internal communication platform, clearly documenting the individual project steps;- A project website, where project results will be presented, in order to support the dissemination of the project outcomes (multi-lingual);- Project newsletters (at least 4 during the project lifetime).The consortium is bringing together partners from different regions across Europe, combining experience in collaborating on the level of European cooperation with the broadest possible spectrum of activities in policy and practice areas related to teaching democracy, value-based learning and human rights education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99782 Eur

Project Coordinator

Verein Niedersächsischer Bildungsinitiativen e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• uniT – Verein für Kultur an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
• Eco Logic
• MHT CONSULT APS
• INTEVAL LIMITED