EU@Home / Bringing EU and youth closer together

General information

Code: EU-Home-Novak
Period: 1.9.2018 - 31.8.2021
Project leader at FDV: izr.prof.dr. Meta Novak

Abstract

Main objectives of EU@Home project are A) to Bring Slovenian youth and Europe closer together, B) to strengthen EU democratic legitimacy, and C) to encourage political participation among youth. Our aim is to develop innovative and tailor-made didactic approaches for teaching EU contents to future voters – pupils and students in the age between 12 and 17 years. The main innovation of the EU@Home project is to bring EU closer to youth through organized guest lectures by Slovenians employed at EU institutions. The activties of the EU@Home project will be implemented in close cooperation between partner primary and secondary schools and an interdisciplinary team. During the project's life-time we will conduct (1) two seminars for teachers, (2) two trainings for teachers, (3) 16 workshops for pupils and students organized at primary and secondary schools, and (4) 16 guest lectures at primary and secondary schools given by Slovenians employed at EU institutions. Project activities will be accompanied with a set of corresponding project's deliverables: (A) Online Kahoot Quizzes for students and pupils with different difficulty levels and covering different EU-related topics, (B) EU@Home Blog as platform for pupils and students to share their views on the EU and its future with the public, (C) letters from pupils and students to guest lecturers from EU institutions, (D) EU@Home: Agenda with EU contents for a whole school year, and (E) Interactive manual for teachers: Bringing EU and youth closer together as the main project' deliverable to disseminate project's core results. Project activities and results will be disseminated in various ways and through different channels that will reach also broader general public. The sustainability of the project will be ensured by the development of open-access new learning tools and approaches available on the project Website. An important dimension of developing new learning tools and approaches will be continuous process of evaluation and validation.

The phases of the project and their realization

Phase 1: school year 2018/2019: conducting two seminars for teachers of elementary schools, conducting workshops at eight partner elementary schools and organising guest lectures of EU officials at eight partner elementary schools Phase 2: school year 2019/2020, extended to school year 2020/2021: conducting two seminars for teachers of secondary schools, conducting workshops at eight partner secondary schools and organising guest lectures of EU officials at eight partner secondary schools