We try to improve knowledge of young Czechs (and Slovaks) on the EU. We would like to improve their knowledge on fuctioning of the EU institutions and rise the awareness of the European Parliament and the European Union in general.
We would like to improve way of teaching about the EU on Czech schools.
We would like to contribute to understanding of the EU integration process, historical moments that led to recent form of the EU as the area of peace, democratic values and well-being, mainly among young people
– Identify together with participants important personalities in process of integration and rapprochement that are not well known among public
– Create a network of Slovak and Czech teachers that will exchange and share their newly gain experiences and knowledge through examples of good practice.
Aims will be accomplished through:
– we would like also organise seminars for teachers and future teachers.
Topics are: Development in both countries since 1993; EU, it´s policies and how to teach about them; Minorities (aimed at the Slovak-Hungarian and Czech-German relations) and places of remembrance; Personalities and innovative methods in teaching about the European integration.
We are also working on simulation of the European institutions (Council of the EU) in Slovakia.
Make Decisions about Europe: The European Union Student Simulation
This project took place within the Czech and Slovak Republic, to be specific, all the regional capitals were included (Praha, České Budějovice, Plzeň, Karlovy Vary, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Jihlava, Brno, Olomouc, Ostrava, Zlín, Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra, Trenčín, Ţilina, Banská Bystrica, Prešov, Košice). The main topics of the project was getting more closer the European union to young people, explain them their possibilities of engaging and bring them opportunity to communicate with other young persons from different country about democracy, politics, policy, etc.The time duration was 7 month.
This project aims to increase the knowledge of the youth (high school pupils, 15 – 19 years) about the European Union. The goal is to get the young people interested into the European integration and create a base for their own self-improvement in the area of this topic; broaden the information and initiate a discussion about the European topics.
For the purposes of this project, special interactive presentation was created, so the participants could be actively included into the lectures. For these reasons, the project was to be a mixture of the expert lesson with the practical part. The practical section was an integral part of every lecture and had the form of a realistic simulation of the Council of the EU negotiations and compromise-making. The participants took place in this simulation in order to get a practical knowledge.
800 participants took part in 21 lectures in regions and 27 participants in the European Union Student Simulation in the age between 15 and 19 years. Another 25 young people took place in whole project as realization team.
Despite the importance of the European parliament, one can still see the decreasing election participation, not only in the Czech Republic. Also the general knowledge on the EU is in the Czech Republic very low.
http://rozhodujoevrope.cz/
knowledge on the EU, activie citizenship, model sessions
EU programme Youth in Action
Jean Monnet Programme
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
