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«Citizenship Academy» is a Youth Democracy project which has been developed in the context of the European Year of Citizens 2013 and in the perspective of the May 2014 European Parliament elections
Everything Possible CIC (England) worked in cooperation with Bryson Charitable group (Northern Ireland), MARDI and Edenvella Youth (Ireland) in order to raise European awareness among young people with fewer opportunities
Among 40 young people aged between 16 and 20 years old (particularly the ones who didn’t benefit from a political education) took part in this project
The aim of the project was to introduce them to politics in general and more particularly European politics and cititizenship and to encourage them to be more pro-active and involved in society as European citizens
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The project fosters young people’s sense of European citizenship and helps them to understand their role as part of the present and future of Europe and the high stakes of their participation through voting and the importance of their active political involvement to improve and construct a better society. The project increased young people’s positive awareness of other cultures: Throughout …
The youth seminar gathering the young participants from Ireland and Northern Ireland gave a concrete dimension to the intercultural learning of the candidates, particularly for the young people from Ireland and Norther Ireland, as some of them had never had the opportunity to travel out of their local city and were used to living in the countryside or in small …
In other workshops, the teams presented their campaigns. They had to select 4 group leaders, who would be able to go to London during the seminar in July and represent them during the visit at the Europe house. This enabled them to take part into a democratic process, and to understand by a practical action what “democracy” means and how …
