This project promoted the EU Youth Strategy 2019-27 about engaging, connecting and empowering young to: • take the challenge to create an innovative, comprehensive and balanced content about active citizenship • deliver an education programme that was accessible to all and available in its capacity as a self-study material on an app. With this education programme we would: • stimulate young people’s engagement in democracy • show young people how they can make a difference • improve young people’s further education possibilities and employability. Our new, informal, interdisciplinary education: "Active Citizenship" is targeted at young people, including young people with fewer opportunities. It integrates disciplines, such as: Psychology (Personal and social development, empathy, resilience), Sociology (entrepreneurship, integration, social dynamics and issues), Journalism (critical thinking (being aware of echo chambers, not buying fake news, sound judgment, retrieving adequate information), Environmental studies (advocacy for protection of the earth, fighting climate change, finding jobs in the growing green sector), Social science and Politology (understanding the nature of power and influence).
Active Citizenship is indispensable for the survival of democracy. However, there was a lack of suitable learning material on Active citizenship, and the subject-matter is not either on the curricula of education institutions. We would make it possible for young people to acquire competencies in active citizenship and thus stimulate democracy. At the end of the Erasmus+ project, the education content and app are the free disposal for the target group of young people, for job creating authorities, trade unions, enterprises and NGOs.