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We want to encourage students to learn to listen to the other, to understand the other’s point of view, to feel strong to dedicate themselves to their community and to be able to help social minorities in their surroundings. Developing these competences at school, we expect our students become responsible citizens committed to their closest social setting as well as to the European society, having as their own the values of respect to diversity, understanding, cooperation, equality and solidarity, and considering dialogue as an essential part of coexistence. With this project, we want to exchange good practices with the aim to strengthen our active citizenship education. Here, we define active citizenship as: 1) to engage and participate in socials issues in society and 2) to engage in political issues in society and in democracy as a concept that guarantees individual choices of its citizens despite opposite interests.First, we want to find methods to develop the social and civic (= democratic) skills of our pupils. Second, we want to find expertise to create a learning environment in which ‘active citizenship education’ flourishes at school and outside the school, targeting different target groups (disabled persons, refugees, etc.) , using different concepts/methods (social internship, etc.), and with different intensity (1 day-activity, long-term engagements, etc.). And to find ways to evaluate and recognise the learning results of ‘active citizenship’-activities.The students of 17-18 years old are involved in the project. About 100 of them (20 per school) will be directly implied participating in mobilities, while the rest of them will be involved too, as they will participate in other activities and/or will be affected by results of the project. About 50 teachers (10 per school) will be involved in mobilities. We will develop activities addressed to increase the knowledge of the students about citizenship and to increase the motivation of the students to be socially committed. For the teachers we prepare activities with the aim to exchange strategies and methods to give more knowledge to teachers about organizing citizenship projects and how to evaluate those kind of projects. We make also sure that the teacher widen their horizon and get to extensive their network of schools and organizations. This we do with the goal to broaden our knowledge and visions so we can improve the quality of education about citizenship, coaching and motivation of students .The results we expect are that our students feel social and civic values as their own, and feel as an essential part of their community itself. We also aim for resilient young people who will seize the opportunities to take an active part in life as citizens, caring for themselves but also others. This will be reflected in our schools, in our student’s after-school lives and in our society. The most important outcome of the project is an increase of knowledge, awareness and engagement about and for citizenship initiatives to help each other and especially social minorities. We will disseminate the activities we have carried out, the documents we have elaborated and the benefits of participating in an Erasmus+ project in cooperation with other European Schools.
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