JLS/2008/FRAC/AC/1416-30-CE-0306247/00-39

DURATION

January 2010 – June 2011

AIMS

Raising awareness and understanding of children’s rights among interested parties in target regions, while in the meantime  building a model for their popularization and creating precondition for active inclusion of children in this model.

PARTNERS

• Progesti@, Spain
• European information centre – Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

• Media HYPERLINK “http://www.media-forum.si/”ForumHYPERLINK “http://www.media-forum.si/”, Slovenia

THE PROJECT

Raising awareness and understanding of children’s rights among interested parties in target regions, while in the meantime  building a model for their popularization and creating precondition for active inclusion of children in this model.

ACTIVITIES

In the context of this project, the following activities are being carried:

– Comparative research of the national legal framework for protection of children’s rights;

– Preparation of methodical materials for teaching children rights;

– Testing of these methodical materials in class;

– Printing and circulation of methodical materials – materials for teacher, materials for students, CD with teaching materials, texts collection,;

– National competitions for drawings on the topic of reflecting on children rights;

– National campaigns for promotion of children’s rights;

– Project preparation of “European Charter on children rights”;

– Conducting of european children’s forum /European children’s parliament/ in Veliko Turnovo in spring 2011;

– Creating Internet websites focused on the children rights in the three countries.

PUBLICATIONS

1. VISUAL MATERIALS

Brochure of project

Poster – white

Poster – blue

First card

Second card

2. RESEARCH

Analysis of the legislations, politics and practices in Bulgaria with regards to children rights

List of organisations with a license from Government Child Protection Agencies for children’s social services in diferent regions

3. HANDBOOK FOR TEACHER

“Lets teach children rights”

DURATION

August 2010 – July 2011

AIMS

Mark 10 years from the signature of Charter of Fundamental Rights of European Union, signed on 7-th December 2000 in Nice.

PARTNER

– Idees Nouvelles Europe, France

– Progesti@, Spain

– European Information Center – Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria

–  Federation Europeenne des Ecoles, France

– Maison de l’Europe Bordeaux-Aquitaine, France

TO THE PROJECT

<< Charter 2010 >> is an information project for raising the sensitiveness regarding civil rights in Eropean Union and importance of fundamental document formulating the rights. It is an educational projectfor the enhancement of awareness of European identity and citizenship of young people (17-25 years old) , based on creating 6 trance-national videos to promote values which are supported by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of European Union. During the project a conference in Nice will be held on the occasion of anniversary of Charter.

Click the link to download the project brochure

PRODUCTS

During the project 6 videos were created, each of them describes a part of the Charter. These videos are aimed at the general public, they can be used for pedagogical activities by teachers and informal instructors. Ideas how to use them can be found in pedagogocal slips in videos. You can get the special DVD free of charge in EIC office – “Bulgaria” Str. № 38 – Veliko Turnovo, phone number: 062 605050.

You can watch videos on-line, here:

Summary video with presentation about the Charter.

Video 1: Dignity

Video 2: Freedoms

Video 3: Equality

Video 4: Solidarity

Video 5: Recognition

Video 6: Justice

You can find the pedagogical slips to the videos in section “Publications”.

DURATION

September 2010 – August 2011

AIMS
Promotion of the universality of human rights.

PARTNERS

• Federation Europeenne des Ecoles, France;
• Progesti@, Spain;
• Европейски информационен център – Велико Търново, България
• Le Comite Syndical europeen de l’education, Belgium;
• L’union europeenne feminine, Sweden;

TO THE PROJECT

” Universality of human rights” is innovative project including the creation of the book ” The Universality of human rights”. This book contains information on reflection – from the international meetings – on the topic, didactical approaches to teaching the topic in schools, recommendations by public characters, many sections, which propose different approaches, representing clearly and most comprehensively the question of universality of human rights to the wide public. The book will be published in two languages (French and English) and it will promote the conception of universality of human rights. The book is compilation of earlier publications on the subject. These works will be enriched with new texts of experts about the needs of the project. These texts will offer methods for teaching the universality of human rights at three different levels.

– primary school (practical activities);
– student level ( texts);
– adults (examples for using the articles from the Charter of Fundamental Rights to solve the basic problems: solidarity, environmental protection, child protection).

PRODUCTS

The international inquiry conducted during the project – results.
Electronic version of developed work, expect here.

This project under programme MINERVA aims to create the European educational resource manager for cities, based on the knowledge that the city is the stage where education and training occurs. On the same stage exists many different type of active actors ( public administration, trusts, foundations, private undertaking, non-governmental organisation, musseums and others). They offer education programmes to the general public, especially for the kids at school. These organs represents cultural and educational agents on territory of the city.

Several times a year, these suggestions are collected and systematized by the city council through the preparation of programmes for the activities, drawn up in diferent formats with the purposes of facilitating the teaching team to access information and select the best education plan.

Project aims: creation and systematization of working methodology serving for:

First: determine and analyse school needs in cities and also the use of communicative and informative technology for access to education resources.

Second: identify possible resources existing in every city. Also to describe and evaluate the education activities, based on the opportunity to shift in one of the thematic fields, which are defined by the project partners: Culture legacy; Ecological education and Culture diversity and other fields typical for some cities: Science – Technology; Culture and art; Entertainment; Communicative and informative technologies; Sport and Health.

Continuation

October 2010 – December 2011

AIMS

– Encourage the citizens to participate in the building process of “United” Europe – democratic, enriched by cultural and language diversity of the citizens in Spain, Poland, Sweden, Bulgaria and Italy.

– Rethink what the general European values are from the prospective of individual cultural identity and encourage the citizens’ sense of belonging to the European Union.

– Improving the knowledge of europeans for the others cultures by stimulating the dialogue and mutual agreement.

– Understand the civils’ position from their actions with the porpose of finding the solution to overcome the growing political apathy.

– Creating new ways for collaboration at local and international level between the organisations working to promote the european citizenship from partner countries.

PARTNERS

– Regional agency for emigration and collaboration to Big Madrid City Council, Spain

– Eurorean Information Center – Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria

– Ekonomisk forening serus, Sweden

– The Polish Robert Schuman Foundation, Poland

– Caritas Ambrosiana – Milan, Italy