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Make your own (Hi)story - Youth Perspectives on historical and future Europe

2020-2-DE04-KA105-0197872020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DE|HU|PL · Grant: €26,226
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyCreativity and culture

Objectives

The project "Make your own (Hi)story - Youth Perspectives on historical and future Europe" is about bringing together the areas of European values, media and the biographical lifeworld of young people. Challenge: European Consciousness - The European idea is currently in a profound crisis. The rising nationalism in many EU countries shows: the values the EU stands for are no longer shared by everyone. EU achievements were also quickly called into question in the Corona crisis. We want to encourage young people to think about the European idea: What values define European unification? What does "Europe" bring me personally? Which values need to be strengthened so that the EU can regain more support among young people? And how can we remember history together as a basis for basis for international understanding? Using methods of historical-political as well as biographical learning, we wanted to strengthen the political awareness of the participants. In school education, history is predominantly taught from a one-sided national perspective. In our project, we wanted to try to combine three national or personal perspectives and thus to understand history from a "multi-perspective". The historical-political examination of history on the basis of family stories is a particularly well-suited method for historical learning for young people, because it makes history come alive and connects it with their own lives. As videos play an increasingly important role for young Europeans today and media are becoming exponentially more significant in young people's everyday lives, the demands on their media skills are growing. We therefore wanted to enable young people to use media responsibly, critically and creatively in line with their age, and to reflect on their own media consumption behavior. Creativity and media literacy were thus linked and the self-acting, self-determined and self-confident use of media was promoted.

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