
         At what level should young people engage in society? What impact can local youth organisations have, when faced with massive European or even global issues?
The concept of European Citizenship is deeply connected with the ideals of democracy, participation and human rights in Europe and beyond. On the one hand, many young people express those ideals in multiple ways, as active citizens, outside and inside formal democratic structures. On the other hand, it is still a challenge to stimulate many young people to engage more in society and feel concerned by wider European or global processes.
This T-Kit was written to find ways to stimulate young people to engage more in society, thus exploring citizenship, and to support them as they develop their sense of belonging to the wider community, Europe, as they become concerned about, and committed to, its values, its present and its future.
PREFACE 
A word about language 
1. INTRODUCTION 
Approach 
Structure and contents 
2. ABOUT CITIZENSHIP 
An ongoing quest 
Current forms 
3. A SOCIAL PRACTICE 
The political, social, cultural and economic dimensions 
The senses of belonging: a personal approach 
A dynamic, complex and integral concept 
4. YOUTH WORK AND EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP 
Young people’s learning 
5. BUILDING EUROPE TOGETHER 
Concept and practice mutually feed each other 
Beyond stereotypical representations 
Voluntarily chosen status that becomes a social role 
Human rights as the basis of European Citizenship 
Citizen–citizen relations and civil society 
Shared criteria of identity 
Sense of belonging 
Europe as collective memories – or ongoing construction 
Europe as a mental territory 
Culture as plastic, political, contingent 
Present and future-oriented 
Construct, deconstruct, reconstruct 
6. OPEN QUESTIONS FROM YOUTH WORK PRACTICE 
Informal learning of citizenship 
The role of the community 
Multiple identities 
National heritage and Europe 
Europe and the rest of the world 
The role of faiths and religions 
7. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP 
Communitarian or civic republican understandings of education for citizenship 
Individualist understandings of education for citizenship 
Educational activities for European Citizenship 
Starters 
Exploring participants’ views 
Going deeper…
8. OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ON EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP THEMES 
A tale of two cities 
A mosque in Sleepyville 
Can I come in? 
Dreams 
Euro-rail ”à la carte” 
Force the circle 
How can we respect and live together with minorities? 
Let every voice be heard 
Limit 20 
Making links 
On the ladder 
Tales of the world 
To vote, or not to vote? 
Trade union meeting 
9. CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE: ELEMENTS FOR A HISTORY 
Citizenship in the ancient world 
The Middle Ages 
The European Enlightenment 
The liberal understanding of citizenship 
Revolutions 
The nation state 
Human rights are older than you might think… 
Women 
Citizenship in Europe since 1945 
10. CALL TO ACTION AND REACTION 
11. RELEVANT INSTITUTIONAL WORK ON CITIZENSHIP 
Council of Europe 
European Union 
EU–Council of Europe youth partnership 
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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          At what level should young people engage in society? What impact can local youth organisations have, when faced with massive European or even global issues?
The concept of European Citizenship is deeply connected with the ideals of democracy, participation and human rights in Europe and beyond. On the one hand, many young people express those ideals in multiple ways, as active citizens, outside and inside formal democratic structures. On the other hand, it is still a challenge to stimulate many young people to engage more in society and feel concerned by wider European or global processes.
This T-Kit was written to find ways to stimulate young people to engage more in society, thus exploring citizenship, and to support them as they develop their sense of belonging to the wider community, Europe, as they become concerned about, and committed to, its values, its present and its future.
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