“Citizens of Macedonia” A window on Active Citizenship"
“Citizens of Macedonia”
A window on Active Citizenship
“Citizens of Macedonia”
Funded by: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Areas of intervention: Tetovo, Struga, Gevgelija, Negotino, Bogdanci, Valandovo
Duration: 3 years /2008-2011
Partner: Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia
Other institutional actors: 6 involved Municipalities and 8 secondary schools
Areas of intervention
Objectives of the project
To contribute to the improvement of the secondary education system of the Republic of Macedonia, by introducing Citizenship Education’s best practices among youths from different linguistic and cultural origin in the involved Municipalities.
To collaborate with of the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science and the representatives of the local administrations, in order to improve their planning, management, monitoring and evaluation capacities in the field of Citizenship Education.
To contribute to the renovation of the buildings of the involved secondary schools.
Beneficiaries of the project
Students and Teachers of 8 secondary schools (Pejcinovik, N. Stejn, Mosa Piade in Tetovo; G. Delcev in Valandovo; N. Nestor in Struga; Kiril iMetodij in Negotino; Bogdanci in Bogdanci and J.Josifovski in Gevgelija)
Representatives of local administrations from 6 Municipalities
Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science
Activities
With the schools:
5 workshops for 48 reference teachers on Citizenship Education, Intercultural Education, Cultural heritage valorisation and Environment protection
Workshops for a wider group of teachers and students on Citizenship Education and related subjects, in each involved school
Organization of the first Social Communication Festival (Macedonian Youth Spot Festival – MYSF) and creation of a web site dedicated to the Festival
Establishment of 3 youth associations in charge to organize the Festival’s future editions
Exchange activities with Italians schools in Macedonia and Italy
Renovations works in the involved schools
Activities
With the local administrations and the communities:
2 Workshops on Citizenship Education for policy makers of the municipalities
Information and awareness campaigns in the local communities
With the Ministry of Education and Science:
Establishment of a working group consisting of CISS project team and MES representatives
Round tables on Citizenship Education, in order to draw up new Guidelines on Citizenship Education to be included in Macedonian’s secondary schools curricular and extra-curricular programmes
