EACiti – European Active Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

EACiti – European Active Citizenship

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Being an Active Citizen means knowingly participating in political life and the full ingagement of a person in the network of rights and duties that are constitutive of being a citizen, it means contributing to our own community thanks to a sense of civic participation in each of us.
Educating to active citizenship means raising awareness and informing students on emerging issues regarding civic education, the environment, non-hostile communication, the fight against bullying and cyber-bullying but also the integration of ethnic minorities and the fight against marginalization and gender equality.
Active citizenship, in particular youth citizenship, is one of the key expressions in the active participation of citizens and is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary Europe in a system that is constantly changing and which aims at intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth, awareness against any form of bullying, the integration of ethnic minorities and gender equality: students often lack the skills needed to share civic activism as a “citizenship practice”.
The project aims to improve and expand civic education and active citizenship education to be applied in several fields: the project provides for an exchange of good practices on the theme of active citizenship between five partner schools from Italy, Estonia, Romania, Portugal and Germany, to be carried out through 5 exchanges of groups of pupils.
Each school will select for each exchange 6 students who will be accompanied by 2 teachers, for a total of 24 students and 8 teachers for each school will be involved in mobility activities in the countries of the project, for a general total of 120 student mobilities and 40 teacher mobilities to be carried out during the 2 years of duration of the project.
The aim is to exchange good practices in the teaching / learning of active citizenship considered as a mind-set that supports students in a globalised world as socially active, responsible and cosmopolitan citizens.
The objectives of the exchanges will focus on non-hostile communication, bullying and cyber-bullying, sustainable development, integration and non-marginalization of ethnic minorities and gender equality; the exchanges represent the means to bring students closer to the world of correct conscious and responsible communication through which to raise awareness on other sectors (integration, sustainability and equality); the cooperation between students from different countries will be strategic so as to foster the awareness of shared values, seen as a common educational model that allows full awareness.
The good practices shown and observed during the exchanges will be collected in a “Toolkit on methods to teach active citizenship and to become an active citizen” addressed to students and teachers which will contain the project premise (needs, priorities, objectives), the guidelines for teachers and best practices developed in each country. The Toolkit will be drawn up in English and translated into the languages ​​of the partnership, thanks also to the help of the students who will participate in the exchange, and will be a useful tool for the teachers and students of the project and for others who in the future will want to start educational activities in active citizenship.
The student exchanges will be accompanied by local activities where schools will show the project outputs as well as creating a space for considerations and feedback on the activities already carried out and to be carried out.
A project has already been started on eTwinning with the same partners, title and objectives as this proposal and the development of the eTwinning project will run parallel to the Erasmus + project.
A Facebook page of the project will be created on which all the audio-visual materials of the project activities will be published, along with the Toolkit, the presentations of the schools, the exchanges and all the materials produced during the duration of the project.
The partners will collaborate with each other also thanks to the project meetings that will be organized on Skype and, before the exchanges, project meetings to coordinate and plan together the activities to be carried out.
The aim of the project is to develop the basic and transversal skills of the learners which are of fondamental importance for their global education, i.e. oriented towards an eco-sustainable world, with a high rate of integration and correct communication and information, to be achieved by supporting and implementing a system of open and innovative teaching methods to improve the quality, innovation and internationalization of school education and training through the transnational cooperation of the 5 partner schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162480 Eur

Project Coordinator

Polo Liceale Statale “R. Mattioli” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Klaus Groth Schule
• Tallinna Kuristiku Gümnaasium
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vila Real de Santo Antonio
• Liceul de Arte “Aurel Popp”