Thursday, December 10, 2009

About the AMBIANCE Project

Project Summary.

This partnership will address the issue of Active Citizenship of Europe, and the project is called ‘AMBIANCE’. it will be aimed at adult learners of all ages from 16 years old upwards, who are no longer in the initial education system of their country.

The partner institutions will work together over a two year period to develop and pilot a course in ‘Active European Citizenship’ which research indicates may be one of the first of its kind in Europe.

The partners will begin with some basic ideas from a UK perspective, originally generated by the UK partner institution, and then jointly work on developing, amending and testing the structure and content suggested, drawing on national priorities and input from learners in each participating institution.

The positive involvement of learners will bring the ‘learner voice’ to the fore and ensure that there is always an ‘active learner’ theme to the project and to the ultimate product.

At the end of the two year project the principal concrete objective would be to have produced a course that could be used profitably with both residents and migrants in each of the countries of the partnership, and could then be translated into the various European languages. If the partnership is successful over the initial two year period, the intention would be to develop a much larger subsequent project, perhaps a Grundtvig Multilateral Project, to develop and seek accreditation for the course in each country across the entire EU.

The 6 modules initially proposed to the partnership for consideration are:

-Values of Active European citizenship
-European history and its impact on member countries and the world
-The Ethical Consumer saves the planet
-The European Union – facts and figures, economy and trade
-Human Rights and Empowerment
-Art, music, culture, food and humour of each EU nation.

The objectives of the course will be to develop an understanding of what it means to be part of Europe, sharing each other’s cultures, mentoring immigrants in the community, feeling a sense of brotherhood, becoming an ethical consumer and checking one’s carbon footprint and visiting Brussels and Strasbourg.