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What does being European mean today?

How to introduce the concept of European identity at school?

How to familiarize pupils and students with the European Union and its Institutions?

Cultural heritage education offers effective strategies for answering these questions. And historical archives - such as the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) in Florence, where this course takes place - are the best sites to learn about it.

Exploiting the methods and strategies of cultural heritage education, the HAEU archives become - from a place of storage and collection of documents - an open space for discussion, a place in which to discover an infinite heritage of stories.

Accessing the historical and cultural heritage preserved at HAEU allows reconstructing the history of the process of European integration on a double track: that of official history linked to the main events of European history, and that of personal history linked to men and women whose choices and initiatives played a decisive role within this process.

Merging individual and European history, school activities supported by archival sources have the double merit of engaging school learners with personal motivation and presenting the flow of the historical events that united all of us.

The course will instruct schoolteachers at all levels of education to use cultural heritage education in their classrooms to transmit the values of European citizenship to the younger generation.

Participants will engage in in-depth thematic moments, meetings, discussions, workshops, and practical activities designed to build a common consciousness, based on ...read more.