We are five schools located in five different member states of the EU. Generously sponsored by COMENIUS, part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme, we have formed a multilateral partnership to cooperate with and learn from each other.

In the course of two years we will work on the same educational issues and exchange our outputs by running this website and visiting each other. We will try to involve as many students and teachers of our schools as possible.


This partnership project focusses on forms of democratic participation and active citizenship in and around the schools taking part in the project. The guiding questions are:

1. To what extent / how are students prepared for democratic participation in both school and society? To what extent / how do the schools deliberately initiate democratic participation and active citizenship among their students?

2. How – in praxis - can / how do students make decisions as a class, year, group, whole school and how can they influence decision making procedures within the school’s neighborhood and/or their local community?

Civil rights and responsibilities, crime, voluntary action, charity work, fundraising, voting, government and politics are some of the basic themes that are related to the notion of ‘citzenship’. These can be applied to a wide range of practical issues from children’s rights to the legal status of asylum seekers, from student council elections to prevention efforts against racism.

As a multilateral learning process for democracy, the schools involved in the partnership can compare their activities of democratic participation by exchanging their project results.

Our most ambitious goal is to plan a practical active citizenship project at each of our schools and carry it out before summer 2011!