ROUTH The main aspect of our project is making citizens think critically. This is representative for a person with self-guidance, self-discipline, a person who reaches the highest level in intellectuality, if he persists in this way. Individuals, who obtain critical and consistent thinking, are being more empathic, reasonable and rational. We want to give them the opportunity, to find out for themselves, as junior citizens who have creative and critical thinking, who realize their capabilities and roles in modern democracy, all the processes of that political system, that affects their lives. Our purpose is to make them understand that they hold their future to their hands, and that they should not allow anyone to manipulate them. A new network of active younger Citizens will emerge from their efforts. Our Youngers will commune every topic of that network in a forum that will be built by them. Our target group of students, aging from 13 to 18 years old,300 in number, will involve every specialization available in each school, both sexes, and mostly youngers who belong to disadvantaged groups.Our intention is to implement a project, that will have a lifetime impact on them, so students will be the core of every activity that we design.Our planning involves 35 teachers from every school. Their role will be to turn the results of our project into long-term practices for our students, at all levels. Teacher’s roles will be coordination and guidance for our students. They will act as an intangible resource for the students. Our objectives are: -Development of thinking critically, how to become a leader, communicational and social skill development. - Activate our youngers to community life issues. -Put the foundation of free thinking and acting -Emerge values such as respecting each other, being tolerant, democratic and active as a citizen. -to forward intercultural learning -Development of cooperation and idea exchanging among students across Europe Main activities The main core of our project will be the four exchanges. During these meetings, students will debate in real time dialogues, presenting their augments, as well as their counterarguments, that they derived from their research, that involved data analysis, situation assessment, performing interviews and role-play participation. The research that will be performed by every team of students , will ensure that the meetings will produce the expected results and that proper information exchange will be made. There are 4 exchanges with the following topics: C1- Immigrating issue C2 – Democracy and human rights violation C3 – Discrimination and it’s forms. C4 – Social motivation C5 - Joint Staff Methods used: Prior to each exchange, the groups of students will process each topic that will be presented there. There will be an established and scientific data collection methodology that will provide everything that is necessary, in order to present correctly the situation that is of their duty. To achieve this, each team is required to perform interviewing, contact personnel of several NGO’s that participate in related actions , data collection and analysis, assessment and decision making. Every research work will be presented by the students, as the exchange occurs. They will compare their data with the data of the other countries and come to conclusions. They will take part in several debates and think tank activities that will boost their ways of thinking critically. They will get in contact with local politicians and local services stuff, in order to analyze and discuss those issues. Impact Each student will become autonomous and will enhance the ability to think critically. He or she will learn about rights and obligations in the European and local environment, will increase civic involvement, will form an intercultural conscience. Finally the project will shape students and make them better professionally, personally and interpersonally . Students will learn to respect other cultures, civilizations, they will teach and be taught tolerance as well as respecting the fellow human. They will realize that being active citizens is a one way road, if we want Europe to succeed. Material assets, such as records of each debate, researches, each presentation and activities that make students think critically, will be communed in the best possible way. We expect to expand the impact of our project via the on line platform, the dissemination meetings and the tangible assets, exhibited on a large scale of physical spaces. Our intangible assets, will be posted in any on line space This project, is designed to be beneficiary not only for the students and teachers involved, but for the local community, authorities and ngo’s that will be a part of it. Teaching stuff will enrich its material and will improve communicational skills. They will develop their team working abilities and organize themselves much better.
ROUTH The main aspect of our project was making citizens think critically. This is representative for a person with self-guidance, self-discipline, a person who reaches the highest level in intellectuality, if he persists in this way. Individuals, who obtain critical and consistent thinking, are being more empathic, reasonable and rational. We wanted to give them the opportunity, to find out for themselves, as junior citizens who have creative and critical thinking, who realize their capabilities and roles in modern democracy, all the processes of that political system, that affects their lives. Our purpose was to make them understand that they hold their future to their hands, and that they should not allow anyone to manipulate them. A new network of active younger Citizens has emerged from their efforts. Our Youngers have communed every topic of that network in a forum that was built by them. Our target group of students, aging from 13 to 18 years old,300 in number, involved every specialization available in each school, both sexes, and mostly youngers who belong to disadvantaged groups.Our intention was to implement a project, that would have a lifetime impact on them, so students was be the core of every activity that we design.Our planning involved 35 teachers from every school. Their role was be to turn the results of our project into long-term practices for our students, at all levels. Teacher’s roles were coordination and guidance for our students. They acted as an intangible resource for the students. Our objectives were: -Development of thinking critically, how to become a leader, communicational and social skill development. - Activate our youngers to community life issues. -Put the foundation of free thinking and acting -Emerge values such as respecting each other, being tolerant, democratic and active as a citizen. -to forward intercultural learning -Development of cooperation and idea exchanging among students across Europe Main activities The main core of our project was the four exchanges. During these meetings, students debated in real time dialogues, presenting their augments, as well as their counterarguments, that they derived from their research, that involved data analysis, situation assessment, performing interviews and role-play participation. The research that was performed by every team of students , ensured that the meetings produced the expected results and that proper information exchange was made. There were 4 exchanges with the following topics: C1- Immigrating issue C2 – Democracy and human rights violation C3 – Discrimination and it’s forms. C4 – Social motivation C5 - Joint Staff Methods used: Prior to each exchange, the groups of students processed each topic to be presented there. There was an established and scientific data collection methodology that provided everything that is necessary, in order to present correctly the situation that is of their duty. To achieve this, each team was required to perform interviewing, contacted personnel of several NGOs that participated in related actions , data collection and analysis, assessment and decision making. Every research work was presented by the students, as the exchange occurs. They compared their data with the data of the other countries and come to conclusions. They took part in several debates and think tank activities that boosted their ways of thinking critically. They got in contact with local politicians and local services stuff, in order to analyze and discuss those issues. Impact Each student have become autonomous and have enhanced the ability to think critically. He or she has learnt about rights and obligations in the European and local environment, has increased civic involvement, has formed an intercultural conscience. Finally the project has shaped students and made them better professionally, personally and interpersonally . Students have learnt to respect other cultures, civilizations, they have taught and be taught tolerance as well as respecting the fellow human. They have realized that being active citizens is a one way road, if we want Europe to succeed. Material assets, such as records of each debate, researches, each presentation and activities that make students think critically, have been communed in the best possible way. We expect to expand the impact of our project via the on line platform, the dissemination meetings and the tangible assets, exhibited on a large scale of physical spaces. Our intangible assets, have been posted in any online space This project, was designed to be beneficiary not only for the students and teachers involved, but for the local community, authorities and NGOs that were a part of it. Teaching stuff has enriched its material and has improved communication skills. They have developed their team working abilities and organize themselves much better.