The main aim of the Training Course “Active Europeans for Active Citizenship” is to develop competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) of youth workers and youth leaders on how to organize and run activities that aim to motivate and educate young people about (active) citizenship, the European Union and participation in political, economic and social life by promoting European citizenship, European awareness, European identity, European values and active participation.
In order to achieve this, the project has the following objectives:
- To raise awareness about citizenship in general and European citizenship in particular by exploring the concepts, their dimensions, their contemporary meanings, understandings and ways they are used;
- To encourage active participation of young people in socio-political democratic life on local, national and European level in order to strength young people voice in Europe by using different tools for empowerment;
- To raise the awareness about the learner centred approach in developing Non-formal educational activities for young people on the topic of citizenship education, European Citizenship and active participation while motivating youth workers, youth leaders and organisations to use it in their work;
- To develop, practice and evaluate tools which aim at enhancing young people’s feeling of ownership and belonging to Europe, and discuss what role young people can play in Europe (including active participation in European organizations);
- To foster mutual understanding, solidarity, intercultural learning and intercultural dialogue between young people coming from different cultural backgrounds, and to provide opportunity for young people to develop multiplying initiatives to be implemented in their respective countries;
- To foster sustainable international cooperation, capacity and partnership building in the youth field working with citizenship education, European citizenship and active participation of young people;
- To share experiences and good practices of citizenship education from local level among different target groups;
- To promote Erasmus+ Programme and Youthpass as recognition tool for non-formal and informal learning in youth work.
Long-term goal that is set to be reached by fulfilling the main aim and objectives of this training course is to help raise the quality of (European) citizenship education and improve active participation of young people in European youth work.
Active Europeans for Active Citizenship 