The Final Conference of the EducAction Project, an initiative that aims to promote the social and civic skills of young people, will take place on the 26th of April, from 10 am to 00 pm.
The conference, promoted by ECOS – Cooperative for Education, Cooperation and Development and the Pinheiro and Rosa School Group, will be broadcast live, in four countries simultaneously, through a platform which translates in real time into the participants' mother tongue.
Participation is free.
«This project aimed to promote the social and civic skills of young people, reinforcing the centrality of the school and the community in which it operates and with which it interacts. In particular, work to build a model of inclusive civic participation, which involves all agents of the school community, being integrated into the Aeprosa Citizenship Strategy, through: identifying relevant issues for the community (school and community in general) and presenting solutions for this problem, the creation of strategic partnerships (leaders of authorities and local organizations) and mapping of the territory, and the testing and validation, in the territory, of the solutions found», says ECOS.
The project had three phases of action: the School Labs, developed in two classes at Escola Secundária de Pinheiro e Rosa, sessions where “the necessary steps for a participatory decision-making process” were worked out; the Community Labs; that they followed «the same logic as the School Labs», but in a «community centered intervention»; and the implementation of a pilot solution – with the objective of testing and validating in the territory (privileging contact and online research), the solutions identified in the Community Labs.
The EducAction Project is ongoing and will end at the end of April 2022, being coordinated by ActionAid – Italy and involving the following European partners: Ecos – Cooperativa de Educação, Cooperativa e Desenvolvimento, CRL (Portugal); UC Limburg vzw (Belgium); Asteri (Greece).
This project is co-financed by the European Union – Education, Audiovisual, and Cultural Executive Agency (Erasmus+).
Conference Program:
10h00 – Welcome session – Presentation
Penati Cinzia, ActionAid
10h15 - 10h45 - What kind of education? The students built the path
– Students as protagonists of the project, Sergio Cabrita, ECOS – Portugal
– The beginning: the origin of the problem, Students of the Secondary School of Pinheiro e Rosa, Faro
– The teachers’ point of view, Virginia Guarnieri, Oriani Mazzini, Milan
10h45 - 11h15 - Participation of young people at the local level
– Youth participation in the community, Chloë Mentens, UCLL – Belgium
– Involvement of the local community: the sample from Belgium, Students at Atheneum Hasselt, Belgium
– The Point of View of a Local Stakeholder, Luca Sansone, Director of the Cde Crete Association, Milan, Italy
11:15 – 11:50 – The value of the EU project
– The challenge of the European dimension, Tanya Kyriakidou, ASTORI
– Welcome by the Head of the Greek European Parliament, Mr Vangelis Meimaraki, Greece
– The challenge of the European dimension, Christos Blatsiotis, General Director Prime Minister Press Office, Greece
– The Hackathon Experience, Niki Sarafidou (Student) & Tassa Bitsani Petrou, Director of White Tower Lyceum Thessaloniki, Greece
– The European Civic Manifesto, Students of the Lyceum “Oriani Mazzini”, Milan, Italy
11:50-12:00 – Conclusion and Q&A session
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