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December 5, 2022

Living Democracy treasure hunt in Novi Sad, Serbia

Digital competence is one of 8 key competences in the European Commission’s Key Competences for Lifelong Learning (2019) document. Followed by multilingual competence, literacy competence, citizenship competence and all the others, each person becomes aware that each competence is intricately connected to all others, being a premise for some and a consequence of others….

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Living Democracy Campaign in North Macedonia

Two of our Living Democracy Campaign team members from North Macedonia, Natalija Aceska (Advisor at the Bureau for Development of Education) and Ivanka Mijikj (Advisor at the Bureau for Development of Education), promoted the www.living-democracy.com website as part of the two-day Civics in Practice: From Classroom to Action conference supported by the USAID Youth Ethnic Integration Project on August 23-24 2022….

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November 8, 2022

Exploring and using the living-democracy.com website

The “Media and information literacy” project was implemented in Albania 2021-2022. 10 curriculum specialists from the Agency for Quality Assurance took part; they are responsible for the curricula for all subjects participated in this project as trainees, trainers, mentors and observers….

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What about digital rights?

We live in a digital era, and digital rights – closely linked to freedom of expression and privacy – are those that allow people to access, use, create and publish digital media, as well as access and use computers, other electronic devices and communications networks….

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September 7, 2022

PROFESSIONS WITHOUT GENDER STEREOTYPES symposium and promotion of Living Democracy web material

In 2021, the Government of the Republic of Serbia proclaimed 11 June as the National Day of Gender Equality, and this year (2022) was the first time such a significant day was celebrated in the national calendar….

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Lessons in democracy from a sports facility

I experienced an unexpected ‘democracy lesson’ facilitated by Claude Jonkmans, a young Canadian-Swiss woman living and working in Greece, while visiting a sport facility to organise summer activities for unaccompanied minors in Athens. This is how the idea of interviewing her for our newsletter came about. Enjoy! …

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Living Democracy webpage for Ukrainian refugees in Georgia

We don’t see democracy as a concept that stands in isolation from most current events – we believe just the opposite, in fact: we see democracy as a way to find the best answers to the most up-to-date and difficult questions. And, already well into its sixth month, we believe the war in Ukraine is at the very top of these questions. …

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January 20, 2022

Proposed teaching and learning publication: All different – all equal

We recommend a reissued classic of the Council of Europe, the educational pack All Different – All Equal. This publication aims to provide practical and theoretical materials that can be used by educators, trainers, youth workers and teachers in informal education in order to facilitate the learning process and the knowledge of young people about the social environment in which they live….

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The Council of Europe Democratic Schools Network

Developing students’ competences needed to participate effectively in a culture of democracy…

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Art making children’s rights visible

A project with and in shelters for unaccompanied minors in Greece…

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