PRESENT CONTINUOUS! Workshop on memory and present of Europe

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Objectives

  • Think about the role of historical facts, war periods and migrations phenomena in the configuration of nowadays social and geo-political situation of the European Union.
  • Analyze the development of each country partner, with the past memories of the citizens and the traditions to look at the present and to be aware of the diversity in Europe.
  • Learn about nowadays European policies that promote the European identity and citizenship, the integration and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
  • Foster the exchange between the partner countries’ history and democracy through memory.
  • Increase the participants’ sense of European citizenship comparing their lives and memories with the actual cultural diversity in Europe in the past and today, by discovering the common features.

Activities

  • Workshop in Palermo (02/04/2011 – 10/04/2011) dedicated to know each partner country through non-formal education activities, using group-building, autobiographical techniques, exchange of memories and opinions related to historical times in their countries and the present of Europe. These activities were chosen related to the issues of war periods, peace, migrations and poverty

Results

Partners

  • Coordinator: CESIE – European Centre of Studies and Initiatives (Italy)
  • Youth Society for Peace and Development of the Balkans (Bulgaria)
  • Prosvasi (Cyprus)
  • Education and Training Centre for adults LCEducational (Cyprus)
  • Agora CE (Czech Republic)
  • FRANCE AMERIQUE LATINE (France)
  • Sozial.label e.v. (Germany)
  • Ulm University (Germany)
  • Popular University of Rome (Italy)
  • Social Alternative Institute (Latvia)
  • Lietuvos jaunimo Ramuva (Lithuania)
  • Russian schools student’s union (Lithuania)
  • SAPIEN (Malta)
  • Associação Valorização Intergeracional e Desenvolvimento Activo (Portugal)
  • OCRE – Associação para a Valorização do Ambiente, Cultura, Património e Lazer (Portugal)
  • YOUNG PARTNERS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (Romania)
  • Centre for information service, cooperation and development of NGOs (Slovenia)
  • Kadis d.o.o. (Slovenia)
  • CIBERESPACIO SL (Spain)
  • FUNDACIO PRIVADA DESENVOLUPAMENT COMUNITARI (Spain)
  • University of Lleida (Spain)
  • Center for Democratic Development (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
  • Bulgarian Network for Child and Youth Trafficking Prevention (Bulgaria)

The project

PRESENT CONTINUOUS! Workshop on memory and present of Europe

Project number

Implementation date

01/08/2010 – 31/07/2011

Fundings

DG EAC, Europe for Citizens programme – Action 2.3: Support to projects initiated by civil society organisations

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Info & contacts

E-mail

partnership@cesie.org

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