EUROPIA: On-Wheels summer school for the socio-cultural evolution of the EUropean Values, Principles, Identity and Awareness

Programme: Erasmus +, KA2 Strategic partnership: Cooperation partnerships in higher education

Project coordinator: University of Warsaw (Poland)

Project partners: Transilvania University of Brașov (Romania); University of Belgrade (Serbia); University of Zagreb (Croatia), Public University of Navarra (Spain) and Pax Rhodopica Foundation (Bulgaria)

Project duration: 01/01/2023 – 29/06/2025

The main objective of the project is to develop an innovative, holistic, integral and modular training approach for enhancing the capacities of university academia to conduct education process in the field of European history, law and politics with a specific & target focus on the shared European values, principles, identity and awareness.

EUROPIA sets out also the following specific objectives:

  • Raise the awareness of the university academia about the need to organize and conduct on-wheels schools in European history, law and politics from the viewpoint of the shared European values, principles and identity to overcome the existing stereotypes and prejudice in students from different parts of Europe.
  • Elaborate specific and high-quality materials that shall define and overcome the problems of how the European studies are taught in different countries for the benefit of both academia & students and society in general.
  • Develop the competences of university academia in on-wheels school organisation and conduction with students with interest in the socio-cultural evolution of European values, principles and identity and their perception from national viewpoint.
  • Stress the importance for deeper understanding of the EU concept “United in diversity” through defining the main principles and approaches for stimulation of the socio-cultural competencies of the higher education teaching staff.

EUROPIA main target group shall be the representatives of the university academia with interest in European studies, history and politics as well as in the socio-cultural evolution of the EU values, principles and identity. The main project target group shall include: university professors; junior and senior assistants; university researchers; postdoctoral scholars and PhD students working in the field of EUROPIA topic.

Project results:

  • Conceptual Framework – it describes the pedagogical interactive technology on how the university professors, assistants & researchers to conduct the on-wheels summer schools. It also describes in detail the approaches & methods that will be applied in the EUROPIA training course.
  • Training package – it provides the resources to the university academia to use during the On-wheels summer school in European history, law & politics with a target focus on shared European values, principles, identity & awareness.
  • Manual for the university academia – it provides the necessary guidelines on the personal and professional competencies that university academia should have to work, teach and study socio-cultural evolution of the European values, principles & identity as well as to overcome the stereotypes & prejudices in the students.
  • Guidebook on EUROPIA concept – it is targeted towards development of knowledge & discussion on the problematics of European studies, history & politics. It describes the major approaches on teaching of the socio-cultural evolution of the European values, principles & identity.
  • EUROPIA platform – it shall host EUROPIA Training Package, Manual and Guidebook in all partner languages; it will be a databank with various resources (both interactive & passive) for both the academic staff and the students in on-wheels summer schools and will enable self-preparatory tests for the trainees to check what they have learned after the EUROPIA training.

Project website: https://www.europiaproject.eu/