Centre for Education is partner in the following projects
Blue Twinning is a project, co-financed by the Spanish Fundación Biodiversidad.
It brings together as partners our NGO Centre for Education and the University of Alcalá and involves 8 schools into its activities, 4 from the Spanish mainland and 4 from the island of Mallorca. Its Objectives are: 1. to bring the fishing sector and ocean literacy closer to schools inland on the peninsula (Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha), through a twinning system with centres certified as “Blue Schools” in the Balearic Islands., 2. to promote interest in ocean literacy, the protection of marine biodiversity, and support for sustainable fishing activities among students., 3. to train educators in marine sustainability issues through service-learning, to ensure the transfer of knowledge, 4. to review and adapt educational resources related to the marine environment, incorporating knowledge about protected marine species, 5. to develop practical activities, such as monitoring of protected areas and workshops on sustainable fishing, involving both students and fishermen, and 6. to promote the exchange of knowledge between coastal and inland regions to increase environmental awareness and generate a positive impact on blue education. |
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“Hunt for Europe" is developing a new approach of learning Language & Culture through Gaming. For this it uses language and speech recognition software and integrates culture and language learning into a game environment.
Apart from addressing the issue of learning at least 2 foreign languages, the project will also teach the students the cultural differences of the participating countries through an interactive games that build on historically and culturally significant personalities or events in the different countries. |
"EU Awareness" project aims to identify the more common euro myths or of each region involved, debunk them, open up debate for all those ideas without any prejudice and finally show the EU mechanism available to get involved in Europe’s policymaking. The project objectives includes the understanding from the target group itself the most common misconceptions that are currently underlying Euroscepticism, to carry out innovative activities that provide factual information regarding the identified misconceptions, and show to EU citizens the tools available to shape the future of the EU they want. |
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The project Oncology Games aims to bring awareness to the growing evidence that sport and physical activity have significant benefits for cancer patients who are undergoing treatment or post-treatment. It brings together cancer patients from 6 EU countries who will come together in Rome in June 2018 in a sports demonstration seminar led by the Italian Olympic Committee.
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MentorPower is a strategic partnership project for the empowerment and social integration of migrant youth by facilitating their integration into the labour market using engagement mentoring. The partnership will bring together 5 civil society organizations in Europe working in the field of youth for developing and piloting of an innovative and sustainable engagement mentoring model for 16-25 year-old migrant youth within a period of two years.
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