Our project
The project aims to create a “space on the European Union” suitable for new generations with a series of interactive recreational-cultural-educational tools and activities in Europe with the direct active involvement of school students, encouraging inter-generational dialogue and the sense of active European citizenship using innovative gamification and digital products.
This will allow to develop a better quality of work which, today, in the school sector is developed in relation to European citizenship because the project will generate the right tools to work with young people and will provide teachers with “a new way to explain Europe and its values “through “serious games” able to involve the students and make them learn by actively participating and having fun.
Background
The reasons behind the project proposal are obviously very connected with the current situation of knowledge and mistrust that especially young people but also adults have towards institutions and in particular towards those that feel “less close” from the territorial point of view, especially in a period, like the current one, in which:
- there are few job opportunities, especially in the South,
- nationalist pressures increase throughout Europe,
- the economic crisis seems to have resumed,
- European rules are perceived a bit by everyone as perhaps too restrictive.
Objectives
The goal of the project is to make everyone understand that we need to believe more in our current European institutions by investing in greater active participation in the social and political context: but this is possible only if you can excite people and make them live on the feeling of being a European citizen.
This will also be a way to push people to go and exercise their right to vote with more awareness, for which the European Commission invested heavily in all countries in 2019 (election year of the new European Parliament) with the campaign #thistimeIvote. The project, therefore, following this trail of information/training will push future generations of voters even after 2019 to believe more in European institutions.
The fundamental objective of the project is therefore to communicate the European Union and its institutions in a form that is at the same time simple, modern, innovative, immediate and aware.
