2005 - Active Citizenship 9th May, Europe Day

Scope: Stimulate young people to realise the importance and acceptance of European citizenship especially by becoming familiar with the European Institutions and instruments

Target group:
Our target group comprises in general students from primary and secondary schools as also their teachers.

Project objectives:
The project will promote the following activities:
- Promotion of a competition theme for stimulating students and teachers to express their idea on the European Citizenship;
- Implementation of cultural exchanges between students for developing mutual knowledge on different cultures in Europe;
- Organisation of a special ceremony for selecting and awarding the best work of art on the idea on European Citizenship in each participating country;
- Simultaneous celebration of the Europe Day in all countries via a videoconference facility;
- The competition winners of each country will meet in Strasburg (France) and visit the European Parliament;
- Implementation of a multilingual web site, where all the produced works of art from all participating countries will be presented

Partners (country):
This project is a European one involving 4 organisations from 4 different Member States
- INFORMATION SOCIETY OPEN TO IMPAIRMENTS, e-ISOTIS, (Greece)
European Non Profit Organisation that advances the use of accessible ICT and the conduction of innovative training focusing on independent living of disabled people
- AICCRE, FEDERAZIONE REGIONALE LOMBARDIA (Italy)
The Regional Authority of Northern Part of Italy (Lombardia)
Italian association for the council of the communities and the regions of Europe
- EUROPEAN LABOUR INSTITUTE, (BULGARIA)
The European Institute, an independent policy centre that supports the national efforts to prepare Bulgaria for EU membership
- CESES, (Italy)
Non governmental organisation that operates in the field of Education, instruction, professional training and continuous training in European matters

Project duration:
Project start: 15 September 2005
Project end: 15 July 2006

This project is partially financed by the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission under Promotion of Active European Citizenship Programme

More info can be found on the project website: Not available yet…

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