Activities

The main target group of GrACE activities are high school teachers, in particular:

- high school teachers already enrolled.
In months 9-18 a restricted group of c. 30 European teachers from our partners “Schools Beyond Regions and Borders” and “Youth Parliament to the Alpine Convention” will be trained and will become co-trainers of c. 100 Italian teachers. We expect to involve at least 130 in-service teachers in webinars, residencies, workshops and one-to-one tutoring.

- Italian would-be teachers.
GrACE will conceive and deliver a 6 ETCS course on “European and Intercultural active citizenship” for 30 would-be teachers/year, in the framework of the initial training offered by the UniTrento Department of Humanities.

GrACE fosters the use of participatory pedagogies when approaching citizenship education (in compliance with the “European Parliament Resolution of 6 April 2022 on the Implementation of Citizenship Education Actions”) and take a bottom-up approach to training. Some of the involved teachers will actively collaborate with GrACE experts as members of a pedagogical committee in charge of providing quality assurance, assessment and tutoring.

A high-visibility final event will disseminate GrACE’s results to policymakers and the general public. The Open Access GrACE guidelines on citizenship education will provide policy-makers in the field of education with a concrete example to develop European citizenship.

An international academic conference (“Environmental crisis and democracy in Europe”) will be organised to discuss the crucial relationship between democracy and the fight against climate change.

We will disseminate and publish in OA reusable didactical materials (teaching units tested by our pilot group, webinars open to the public, videos of the webinars, ebook with Best Practices guidelines) resulting from GrACE activities.
This will allow other teachers (beyond the project network and the project duration) to benefit from our project.