Youth for Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth for Europe

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Democracy and political fatigue as well as the rejection of democratic forms of society are noticeable in almost all European countries. Nationalism, protectionism, rejection of diversity are becoming more and more stated as problem solving and offered and “sold” as simple answers to the complex issues of our time.
The project aims to increase the democratic awareness of all stakeholders and to foster citizen engagement and active EU citizenship. They should recognize that local, national and European identity are not mutually exclusive. Likewise, they should recognize that democracy is not just a rule, but also a life and society form, which affects all levels of our lives and requires lifelong efforts.

The participants are young people between the ages of 16 and 19, who attend upper secondary school and will be attending universities or training in the foreseeable future. Their future depends closely on the social, economic, social and political developments in their countries, the European community and a globalized world. Encouraging them to actively participate in shaping these developments on a personal, local and personal level is an important approach to this project. They should recognize that small changes can be just as important as changes at national and international level.

Participants are supposed to develop their historical, economic and ecological skills as well as their identity, diversity, change and utopia skills, which are indispensable for a modern understanding of democracy.
In addition, students lose the fear of using their language skills. Cooperative, self-organized learning is an important part of the project as it is the only way to initialize a lifelong learning process.

Pupil-active methods that enable one’s own experience and experience are in the foreground. Surveys, observations, role-plays and simulations that give rise to possible conflicts, solutions and reflections become an important part of the activities. The aspect of conscious, reflected and self-competent perception runs through all parts of the project.
Care is taken to ensure that each part of the project complies with the criteria of a complete action and includes planning, implementation and control and thus is self-contained. During the implementation phase, care is taken that we move from observation to reflection and understanding in order to achieve internalisation.

The project is divided into four parts, each of which focuses on one or two of the abovementioned competences.

First, the participants are involved in the development of the EU. Subsequently, EU institutions and their cooperation will be developed in order to apply and deepen the findings in a role play and a panel discussion.
In the second part, the participants deal with the economic and ecological aspects of the EU states on the internal market and on the global markets and recognize the influence on their personal lives.
The third part of the project deals with the different identities of people. In addition, they should perceive the need for constant change and adaptation as well as diversity as positive and not as a threat.
In the last part they design a future version of “their” EU as part of a future workshop. The results should be presented to policy makers and discussed with them.

In all four parts of the project, tools and materials are to be developed that will be available to schools in the longer term and can and should be used in further exchanges and (European) projects.

Current and future students are concerned with a sustainable personality development that goes beyond the mere short-term “usability approach” and the European sense of belonging in the sense of the European motto “United in Diversity” and a positive attitude to democracy, diversity, change and lifelong learning. The European background was an invaluable source of student motivation. They should act as EU citizens and active shapers of their future and see “their Europe” positively. It is their future and their Europe. YOUR EUROPE – YOUROPE!

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50208 Eur

Project Coordinator

Handelslehranstalt Hameln & Country: DE

Project Partners

• I.E.S. Ntra. Sra. de la Cabeza