Author Archives: Kavuklis

Consumer Classroom: a community website bringing together consumer education resources from across the EU

Consumer ClassroomConsumer Classroom is a community website for teachers bringing together an extensive library of consumer education resources from across the EU, along with interactive and collaborative tools to help prepare and share lessons with students and other teachers.

The Consumer Classroom website aims to promote consumer education and in particular to encourage its teaching in European secondary schools. It is a multilingual pan European website financed by the General Directorate of Health and Consumers of the European Commission.

The website’s strength lies in the quality of its teacher resources and its collaborative tools such as the Lesson Builder, Forums and Live Chat. It is suitable for teachers of students aged 12-18 but open to anyone willing to contribute. The website has been developed to make it easy for teachers to learn about consumer topics, create or choose ready-made lessons to teach their students and collaborate online with other teachers and classrooms around Europe.

Website (available in many different languages)

Obstacles, recommendations and proposals to improve Citizens Participation and Civil Dialogue

European Year of Citizens AllianceEUNET is member of the European Year of Citizens Alliance (EYCA). The European Year of Citizens Alliance (EYCA) is an open network of European and national civil society organisations willing to promote active citizenship as a core element of the European democracy in the frame of the European Year of Citizens 2013.

The Alliance has adopted a Manifesto to express its political guidelines and common vision for a wide understanding of European citizenship. The Manifesto has been translated into several European languages.

Besides the plenary meetings, EUNET takes part in Working Group 1 “Participatory Citizenship and Civil Dialogue”. So far two meetings of the working group took place during the first three month of the year. The members of the group focused on obstacles of active citizenship and how to overcome them.

Please find below two (draft) documents as inspiration and food for thought for your own activities.

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EUNET – Blog project “First Time Voters” – European Elections 2014

General idea

The idea is to set up a blog to gather as many different voices as possible from young people who will be eligible to vote in the European election 2014 for the first time.

ep_elections_largeMany members of EUNET will do projects connected to the European elections within the next 12 month or will realize projects with young people who will be first time voters in May 2014 for the European Parliament. This blog project will not create something totally new but sets up a EUNET‐platform to show and multiply what youngsters have to say in different countries in local seminars, trainings and youth projects about the European elections. So the project will be more or less a collection of different voices from as many member organisations of EUNET as possible.

Aim of the project

By setting up this platform we will achieve different goals:

  • We provide a public platform for first time voters to express their attitude and their opinion about the European election 2014
  • We provide a public platform where other first time voters have the opportunity to learn about the views of their peers in different countries about the European election 2014 and compare them to their own
  • We multiply the voice of first time voters to politicians and show them what young people think about the European election 2014
  • We provide a tool for all members of EUNET which can be used in projects connected to the European elections, stimulating discussions, share different opinions etc.
  • We set up a joint project in our network and work collaboratively with different member organisations thus strengthening the ties between the EUNET members and increase the network structure.
  • We multiply the (local) work of the members of EUNET involved in the blog project and disseminate their European activities

Get yourself, your organisation and your participants involved and check out the document below on how it is done.

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CERS – call for participants: What does Europe stand for ?!

CERS is looking for participants for a multinational youth meeting “What does Europe stand for ?!” which will take place at Haus am Maiberg (Germany) from July 29th to August 10th 2013.

Enrolment until 1st May 2013

What does Europe stand for?!

What?
The financial crisis that lasts since 2008 has strengthened the feelings of fear and uncertainty in many Europeans. The resulting negative atmosphere manifests itself in numerous protests against politicians and leads to social tensions. For many years, Europe was seen as an economic strength that stands for democracy, freedom and human rights. What is wrong with politics and economy today? What does Europe stand for in 2013?

The participants of this international youth meeting, who come from nine European countries, will discuss and reflect on s happening in Europe today. Your own viewpoints and arguments will be shared with other participants in the meeting during discussions. Every opinion counts! Yours as well. Taking part in this 14-day long youth meeting, you will experience Europe up close and personal. In the workshops we will talk about such topics as democracy, power, prejudices and discrimination.
Talking aside, we have also prepared a wide range of interesting activities that will give you new ideas and insights into these topics. And last but not least, you will have the opportunity to not only visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg, but also explore the beauty of Heppenheim. We can‘t wait to see you here!

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When?
29th July – 10th August 2013

Where?
Haus am Maiberg Centre for civic education of the diocese of Mainz
Ernst-Ludwig-Str. 19 64646 Heppenheim
Tel. 06252 9306-0

How much?
The costs of accommodation, food, insurance, as well as of all kinds of fees, are included in the attendance fee.
We reimburse travel costs up to 70% of the price when confirmed with the tickets.
200 EUR for participants from Germany, France, Spain, Italy
150 EUR for participants from Poland, Czech Republic
100 EUR for participants from Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia

Which language?
English is the language of the seminar – you are expected to communicate freely in it

Contact: s.schwieren@haus-am-maiberg.de

IH Sonnenberg – Call for partners: Youth on the move!

logo_sonnenbergCall for partners: Youth on the move!

International Youth meeting about social movements and youth protests in Europe

December 28th, 2013 – January 04, 2014

Sonnenberg Kreis e.V. is looking for partners from 5 European countries for the Youth meeting ‘Youth on the Move!’ to be held at International House Sonnenberg (Germany) in December 2013 / January2014.

The youth meeting is to be implemented within the Youth in Action Programme, subprogramme 3.1

Project idea

“Youth on the move” invites 50 young people from 5 different European countries for a youth meeting to the Harz Mountains in Germany.

Portugal, France, England, Greece or Spain…there’s a long list of countries where young people recently took their concerns to the streets. We’re faced with the fact that some people spend a lot of time and energy on their activism while others won’t even use their chance to vote.

Correlated to the upcoming European elections in 2014 we want to discuss possibilities of political participation, European Citizen Rights and creative ways of drawing public attention to our needs and issues.

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