Education in Europe

What are the aims of education? How do we educate a person to reach their full potential as an individual and as a productive member of society - an engaged and active citizen? What might those civic lessons look like?

In this episode, Niels Dekker, a specialist in Citizenship Education, explores these questions and explains how to create a safe and respectful environment for listening and exchange of diverse points of view.

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Children are asked that question all the time. But no kid really knows for sure what possibilities lie before them, what kind of job they'll have, what kind of citizen they might become. 

In this episode, Alice Barbieri, Council on Youth, Council on Europe & Program Manager, Regione Liguria, explains how young people can start designing their lives at a young age and think actively about the educational paths they might take into the adult worlds of professions, work, and civic life.

She further breaks down why self-confidence among young girls and equality among all young people are the cornerstones of a healthy, participatory, and democratic society.

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.

The unreached? Who are the difficult to reach young Europeans? 

In this episode, Philipp Ikrath, an expert on youth culture and intergenerational change and author of Die Hipster and Generation Ego, explains what shapes the group identities of young people and how youth culture shifts from generation to generation.

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.

Active European citizenship requires a minimum of understanding of how politics operate at the European level but educational programs in this field often do not reach enough young people.

In this episode, we talk about working with incarcerated youth with Theodora Katsamori, an expert in in-prison education.

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.

Active European citizenship requires a minimum of understanding of how politics operate at the European level but educational programs in this field often do not reach enough young people.

In the first episode of Education in Europe, David Kerr from the National Foundation for Education Research explains what European citizenship education.

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.

A podcast about European Citizenship Education.

Active European citizenship requires a minimum of understanding of how politics operate at the European level. This podcast consults with experts to explore questions such as what efforts to reach and educate young Europeans are working and what efforts are failing and why, and how can European issues be made more accessible to those young people?

Produced by the Green European Foundation - with financial support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the European Parliament.