Author Archives: Kavuklis

Call for participants: European Youth Week 2015

EYW 2015Centre Européen Robert Schuman (CERS) invites all young motivated people to participate in an international youth exchange programme focusing on European citizenship, namely European Youth Weeks. Between 25th July and 8th August 2015 you will get the chance to meet other people from ten European countries, to debate about the role of European citizenship in the EU, to attend non-formal education workshops, to visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg as well as the beautiful city of Heidelberg.

If you are between 18 and 25 years old, speak English and want to share an intercultural experience this summer, then please fill out the inscription form (which you can find here: http://www.europeanyouthweeks.org/#!apply/component_14104) and send it to Laura Lungu at the following address: cers-mers@wanadoo.fr.

The calculation of average cost per participant is 150EUR. To ensure equality of chances we offer three participation fee ranges respectively, 100EUR, 150EUR or 200EUR and we offer a limited number of fee waivers.
In this price you will get good quality accommodation, three meals a day, entry fees and transportation. We will reimburse travelling costs on basis of travel distance and on the condition that participants provide the respective information and documentation (tickets, boarding passes, etc.). For travel distances between 500 and 1999 KM: 170 EUR per participant/ For travel distances more than 2000 KM: 270 EUR per participant.

For more details please visit the website of the project: http://www.europeanyouthweeks.org/.

EUCIS-LLL statement against the inclusion of Education at the TTIP

TTIPEuropean Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL) had published a paper ( EUCIS-LLL Position Paper Why Education should be excluded from TTIP  ) exposing the reasons why they consider the education has to be left aside in the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as well as these negotiations might be open up to the public domain. On their own words, “EUCIS-LLL thus wants to firmly underline that education is a public good and asks the European Commission and the Member States to exclude education from the negotiations”.

Thanks to the support of the European Civil Society Platform for Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL), all Members of the CULT Committee were addressed ahead of the votes, and finally a broad majority voted in favour of an exclusion “of all educational services which work on a non-profit-basis and/or receive public funding to any degree or state support in any form.”

 

Online Handbook “1914-2014: Europe Lost & Found in War & Peace”

Handbook_-_AustriaOn the occasion of the centennary of the First World War, the Interkulturelles Zentrum initiated and coordinated the international thematic school networking project “1914-2014: Europe lost & found in war and peace“.

One result of this project is an online handbook with 21 methods with teaching suggestions about the topics of Europe, war and peace. The handbook can be downloaded here:

Handbook 1914-2014 Europe lost in war and peace

One really interesting method used in the project was the “scripted drama“, which allowed students to experience history through theatre and role play. In this, students both engage with the events of the July Crisis and how they led to the outbreak of the First World War and as well as consider the differences between 1914 and 2014 and the mechanisms that encourage peace in 2014.

The scripted drama provides an independent lesson plan and can be downloaded here:

Scripted drama Europe lost and found in war and peace

Call for proposals – Civil Society Dialogue between the EU and Turkey

unnamedIn 2015 the Civil Society Dialogue continues with new call for proposals for new grant projects.
In this fourth phase of the programme, projects across nine acquis and policy areas of the EU will be supported with a total budget of 11 million Euros.
These areas will include Environment; Energy; Consumer and Health Protection; Justice, Freedom and Security; Right of Establishment and Freedom to Provide Services; Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Elements; Enterprise and Industrial Policy; Agriculture and Fisheries; and Education.

In this nine schemes projects will be financed by a maximum of 150 thousand Euro grant support. The implementation period of financed projects will be minimum 10 and maximum 15 months.

Detailed information