International UNESCO Education Server for Civic, Peace and Human Rights Education

18 EDC experts from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, working in Ministries of Education, Universities and NGO, gathered in Sofia in late March 2003. Unfortunately, participants from Kosovo were not authorised to receive the needed visa with UNMIK travel documents.

The main purpose of this work meeting was to draw up plans for an online information source covering the "Basics of Civic Education" for this region. This teaching material will be developed by D@dalos and will be available for teachers and multipliers in their own native languages on the D@dalos web-site www.dadalos.org soon. The participants outlined a basic structure and important content in four working groups.

With this new teaching unit, teachers will find answers to questions like: What does civic education encompass? What are the main objectives? Which issues are crucial? Which methods are best suited for different areas of education? What are the means of evaluation?

As an important side effect, we discussed the wishes and needs for further regional co-operation in the field of EDC. All participants unanimously expressed their desire for exchanging information and best practice and meet on a regular basis. The follow-up meeting of Sofia is scheduled for October 2003 in Tirana/Albania.

More information can be found in a detailed evaluation report of the meeting that is available for download along with other documents of the meeting:

» Download the invitation  [pdf, 75 kb]
» Download the program  [pdf, 132 kb]
» Download the list of participants  [pdf, 59 kb]
» Download the evaluation report by Reinald Döbel  [pdf, 195 kb]

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