European School net Academy - Teach Europe: a classroom’s roadmap to Europe
Course Timeline:
- Module 1: Europe in my classroom opens - opens on 10/03/2025
- Module 2: Europe in daily life opens - opens on 17/03/2025
- Module 3: Teaching for active citizenship - opens on 24/03/2025
- Module 4: Looking at the future - opens on 31/03/2025
- The final deadline to complete all activities is Wednesday, 16 April, 23:59 CEST.
We embarked on this course to learn more about Europe and what teaching about it entails. But Europe is quite an abstract concept that can include many different elements, from values to history, and, even if we look at it from a geographical point of view, it is still difficult to delimit its borders. If you type “Europe” into a search engine, you will get 6.9 billion results!
There is not one single definition of “Europe” as the term can carry different meanings in different contexts. How do you define Europe? What is Europe to you? We invite you to reflect on these questions and to come up with five key words that for you summarise your own definition of Europe. We will create a word cloud that will enable us to understand your and your peers’ definition of Europe.
ver the last years, Euroscepticism has grown along with populism, extremism, and European’s insecurities on economic and health matters, while the COVID-19 pandemic has had a further negative impact on the social and political climate across Europe. As such, according to the Eurobarometer of 2024 (EU Post Electoral Survey), only 48% of European citizens say they have a positive general image of the EU.
According to the Eurobarometer 485 (July 2020), the process of building a sense of belonging to the Europe among European students must start at school. The same publication claims that over the past 10 years students’ knowledge on EU matters has grown considerably, as teachers have started integrating them into their curricula. In fact, young people who have been in school until the age of 16 were more familiar by 10% to the term “EU citizenship” than those who have left school early.
But there still is a gap between the knowledge about the European Union and Europe, and the sense of belonging and trust of European students in the EU and its values; according to the Eurobarometer of 2024, 51% of Europeans tend to trust the EU, the highest result since 2007. That is why, while it is necessary to continue teaching students about the history of the EU and the functioning of its institutions (learning about Europe), it becomes even more important to reinforce in all students, through a cross-curricular approach, their trust and identification in core values (learning for Europe).
In the activity below, we invite you to reflect and differentiate between “teaching about” and “teaching for” Europe. Some examples of activities belonging to each are presented below, drag each item and drop it on the category you think is best represented by that activity.
This resource, designed for educators and secondary school students (ages 13-16), offers ready-to-use content and innovative methods to connect European history with contemporary challenges through interactive modules in multiple languages.
This document, from the European Parliament's think tank, provides a concise overview and analysis of a specific topic relevant to EU policy and legislation, intended to inform Members of the European Parliament and the public.
This webpage provides a variety of free educational resources, including lesson plans, simulations, games, and publications, designed for students of all ages to learn about the EU and the Council of the European Union.
Articles, reports and frameworks:
How to improve EU citizenship education? - EIB Institute June 28, 2024
Educational Resourses - Teach, Learn, Plan
European Council - Educational resources
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