Joint Civic Education
Region: Caucasus
Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia (North Caucasus), Turkey (Northeast Anatolia)
Language: EN
Please notice: current calls for applications and application forms
About the program
"Joint Civic Education" assembles all activities in the Caucasus region in the field of active citizenship education of MitOst Association and Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg. "Joint Civic Education" combines five country programs and one regional cross-border program. The first supports grass-root initiatives of young adults, the later qualifies young professionals of the civil society sector.
Country programs
Mission
- Motivating and enabling young adults for civic involvement
- Contributing in strengthening civil society
- Recruiting junior associates for civil society actors
- Promoting active citizenship education
Target group
- Young adults in the ages of 18 to 24
- Motivated for taking action in the fields of culture, charity, education, media, ecology and social entrepreneurship
- Interested in non-formal education
- English skills
Curriculum 2012
1. Introductory seminar (8 days in April/May)
- Identifying challenges in the social environment
- Setting objectives for individual development
- Designing a volunteer project
2. Practice Seminar (6 days in July/August)
- Conceptualizing the volunteer project schedule
- Acquiring competences in project management
- Developing an agenda for the project team work
3. Project implementation (August - October)
- Finding project partners
- Involving the community
- Implementing the project
4. Reflecting seminar (6 days in November)
- Evaluating the personal learning process
- Analyzing the project work
- Initiating alumni network activities
Regional program
Mission
- Empowering regional civil society
- Building a network of civil society actors
- Qualifying young professionals in civic education
- Promoting active citizenship education
Target group
- Aged between 20 and 30 years
- Associated to an organization of the civil society sector in one of the target contries
- Lookin for an ambitious methodical and personal qualification
- Interested in designing cross-border cooperation
Curriculum 2012
1. Introductory seminar (8 days in July)
- Defining common challenges for cross-border cooperation
- Personal development
- Project management
- Competences in active citizenship education
2. Internships (mind. 5 entire working days between August and October)
- Working in an organization of a neighboring country
- Gaining an unsusual insight
- Giving mutual assistance
- Starting cooperation projcts
3. Reflecting seminar (6 days in November)
- Evaluating the personal learning process
- Analyzing the internship results
- Initiating alumni network activities
- Starting cooperation projects
Call for applications for the introductory seminars
Partners
Cooperating partners
Funding
- German Federal Foreig Office website
- Foundation Robert Bosch Stiftung website
- Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation - A Project of The German Marshall Fund website
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation website
Ronald Menze
