“Democracy and Human Rights Start with Us – Charter for All” explains the Council of Europe Charter on Citizenship and Human Rights Education in a fun and friendly way.

This publication includes a brochure for children, guidelines for educators and a poster. An exhibition is also available entitled “Democracy and Human Rights start with Us” which highlights the key messages of the “Charter for All” and is available in many different languages.

Charter for All

European 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.”

On 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: