The conference on Education for Democracy aims to contribute to the debate about the role of civic education, and in particular democratic education, in fostering the resilience of the EU model of democracy. For more information see below and attached flyer.

Democracy is conceived not only as a political order, but also as a means of making collective, binding decisions in everyday life. Democracy is not a natural order. It has been achieved  hrough social movements over the centuries and must be learnt and experimented with continuously in everyday life.  We believe that Education for Democracy can be implemented in schools and educational institutions not just through civic education classes, but as a distinctive pedagogical approach that acknowledges aesthetic, embodied and mutual learning, as well as co-creation. 

This is the final conference of the DEMOCRAT Project funded by the Horizon Europe Programme and is organised in collaboration with two other H-Europe projects: AECED and Critical Change Lab. All three projects view innovation in Education for Democracy as a bottom-up approach, with education centres, teachers, educators, students and parents as its central actors. This should be complemented by top-down activities involving political actors such as national and regional governments, public authorities responsible for education, democratic political parties, trade unions, entrepreneur associations and NGOs. 

The conference aims to showcase the results of grassroots initiatives and promote political debate on how to support such initiatives so so that they can be used widely in the education  systems of EU countries and around the world.

Registration: https://www.activacongresos.com/forms/democracy/