Ambassadors for peace

        The construction of Europe of the future will depend on the younger generations of today and it requires adults to help them get to know European values, mainly its peace aiming history and orientation, spirit of mutual understanding, tolerance, cherishing diversity and acceptance of all differences among individuals and various groups. For a long period, Europe has been struggling to successfully cope with issues, such as refugees influx, political conflicts and terrorism; in such an unsafe and turbulent environment, it is imperative that young people be educated and prepared to adapt successfully to a constantly changing society, displaying at the same time attitudes of tolerance, acceptance and solidarity.

Our youngest students are 12 years old, their views and behaviors can be shaped into becoming better citizens of Europe of the future by providing good moral role models. Through six transnational project and student exchange meetings, our project aims to awaken and develop this awareness through real, empowering and innovative relations.

We believe that schools are the best place to help envisage Europe as a dynamic cultural, civic and humanist construction. In the partnership project “Ambassadors for Peace’’, our main aim is to outline and discover the identity of each partner country, cherish it and respect it.

Through various activities they will evaluate history of EU in peace making areas, they will research their countries' history of wars, analyse negative aspects of wars not only in their countries but in all partner countries, as well as in current war zones, they will show their creativity through various art contests, organize events in their schools, analyse media content, take action in promoting non violent means of handling conflict situations. Participating in this project will help them improve their English speaking and writing skills as well as their digital, social and media competences.

All activities will be carefully collected and their outputs widely disseminated.

Finally, all appropriate means of evaluation will be used to refine and adjust our good practices and increase the impact on the school, local, regional and wider community. The capsule we will be creating during our mobilities will be finally sent to the European Community and the United Nations, as a sample of how young people envisage a world in PEACE.