Issue 6, year 3

The sixth CATCH-EyoU newsletter

The last issue of the CATCH-EyoU newsletter

Dear friends this is the last issue of the CATCH-EyoU newsletter. Our project has come to an end and for our last issue we want to present the activities and the tools the we have produced during the last year of the project. Most of them are already available in our website: we  hope that you will find them interesting and that you will use them to reflect on, promote and support active citizenship of young Europeans.  As most of you know, the project had its final event in Brussels, last September, at the Emilia-Romagna Delegation to the European Union: we are not going to tell you about the Conference, but we will leave the stage to young people, and to other stakeholders, who shared their views on the final event and on the project.

Table of contents

Toolkit: Practices of active participation

A document that hopefully will become a reference point for youth workers and stakeholders involved in implementing and organizing activities for young Europeans and their active citizenshiphe LSE team

The final video

A snapshot of the key take-home messages of the project

The Blue papers

Summarizing key results, providing essential recommendations to increase research impact, making research results accessible and strengthening research connection with people’s real life

The development of a teacher training curriculum to promote EU youth active citizenship in school

Teachers need to be trained on the EU and on how to promote active citizenship; they can make a difference, but they should have the basic equipment to set up effective interventions

The final conference in Brussels: “Renewing the EU project: young EU citizens on the stage”

Reloading the dialogue on the EU and on Active citizenship between young people, policy makers and researchers

Postscript

The Project’s structure

Through different studies, qualitative (WP3, WP5, WP6, WP8), quantitative (WP4, WP7), and an active citizenship intervention in schools (WP9) - see our web site here for a full description of each work package - the project will provide a multifaceted understanding of the different factors influencing the perspectives of young people on Europe and of the ways in which young people engage in society, how they approach public authorities and how they engage materially and symbolically in order to participate in the construction of the societies in which they live. Our approach is multidisciplinary and iterative, as our Pert shows clearly: we start with the theoretical workpackage, inform it with the empirical ones that deal with how Europe is socially constructed in young people’s experience; then we examine youth experiences with different approaches (longitudinal - quantitative, ethnographic - qualitative and participatory- mixed methods) and finally redesign the theory integrating the contributions of the different pieces of research.

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