The EU CONVINCE project seeks to provide teachers, other education personnel, school leaders, as well as the education institution community as a whole with tools and methods to deliver inclusive quality education to all and better deal with citizenship related issues both in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities.

Advisory Group

  • Odile Cordelier SNES-FSU France
  • Claudio Franchi FLC-CGIL Italy
  • Janina Glaeser GEW Germany
  • Laura Widger Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland
  • Daniel Wisniewski EFEE EU
  • Fred Verboon ESHA EU

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A training workshop on ‘Education for digital democratic citizenship in the Internet era: Challenges and Opportunities’ which took place on 2 April 2019 in Berlin, Germany and gave the opportunity for ETUCE, EFEE and ESHA members from Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey to discuss their role in promoting digital democratic citizenship in diverse educational contexts and learning environments. In smaller working groups participants shared their national examples of challenges encountered by education stakeholders when promoting digital democratic citizenship education and online safety on the Internet as well as, proposed successful and innovative approaches and solutions on digital citizenship education. Moreover, Elizabeth Milovidov, an expert of the Council of Europe offered her insight on the responsible use of ICT and social networks in school.  To complement this discussion, Dr. Catherine Lowry-O’Neill from the project’s partner, School for Lifelong Learning of ‘Waterford Institute of Technology’(Ireland) highlighted the importance of strengthening media literacy and ICT critical thinking to promote social inclusion and prevent indoctrination and radicalisation.

Report - Background document – Presentations (General Presentation - Research Presentation - Milovidov - Waterford Institute - Hitrec-Zugaj - Aaltonen - COFACE - Debroey) - Pictures