The concrete objectives of the project were: - To raise and consolidate the understanding of human rights as a common European value among European citizens and professionals by upscaling the HRG to new EU member states. - To provide qualitative, up-to-date and inclusive human rights education to European citizens on equal basis by expanding and improving the HRG’s content and learning methodologies by using the advantages of the digital domain. - To strengthen the efforts of the partner-organizations in providing human rights education by sharing good practices and contributing joint effort in further devising innovative approaches to both national and common European human rights challenges.
It is generally recognized that human rights education is a key to human rights protection. As stated in the UN Declaration on Human Rights Education, knowledge of human rights empowers people and develop their competences to participate in democratic processes. These competences must be taught at early years of age and improved throughout one’s lifetime. Unfortunately, many states currently do not have a structural, thorough, and coordinated human rights education strategy at a governmental level, nor they education materials. By bringing together competences and resources, the project partnership aimed to provide free and equal access to comprehensive and qualitative human rights education resources to European citizens. The cornerstone of the project is the Human Rights Guide (HRG) – a universal, easy-to-use and open access human rights education platform online which serves as an information resource and self-help tool for society-at-large and professionals in understanding human rights and developing competences in applying human rights in specific situations. As a result of the project, the Guide was implemented in eight EU member states, making it a truly pan-European education platform.