On 31 March, the small-scale cooperation project (Erasmus+) Cittadinanza multiscalare e identità dinamiche/Citoyenneté à plusieurs échelles et identités dynamiques officially ends, through whose work programme primary and secondary schools/Collège of Parabiago, La Colle-sur-Loup and Milan have carried out a structured experimentation of some didactic activities qualifying the Civic Education curriculum elaborated by Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli in the perspective of their research for a critical “multiscale” pedagogy of citizenship.
Today, 19 March 2024, at 5 p.m., the Research Centre will hold a videoconference to disseminate the project results open to teachers from schools in the European Union (participants from Greece, France, Portugal, Poland, Spain have registered). To get the access link, simply write to citoyennes@uniecampus.it.
Thursday 21 March 2024 will be the turn of the project’s lead institute, the ICS Viale Legnano in Parabiago, as per the poster published here. To obtain the access link, simply fill in the form by clicking on the link in the poster itself.
Both initiatives are open to all interested persons.
2024 Summer edition scholarship winners, as listed below in alphabetical order (by name and surname), have already been notified by email and had to officially confirm their participation by Monday, 29th January 2024. We are now checking all confirmations received. In the event of vacating scholarships, we will reassign them follwing the applicants’ ranking and we will publish the updated recipients’ list on this website.
An interview by Ulrike Guerot, German political scientist and scholar who is among the most important EU specialists in the academic domain today, where Francesco Pigozzo tells and explains the many faces of his and Daniela Martinelli’s pedagogical research and action. The interview is part of the European Democracy Lab series that you can find on Spotify.
We have published here our paper (in Italian) on educational policies regarding Civic Education in the Italian school system, edited by Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo. The paper is part of the activities envisaged by the Multiscale EU project and is part of the debate following the experimental implementation phase of Law 92/2019 by which Civic Education became a “subject” of the curriculum of schools of all levels. A public presentation of the policy brief will be organised in Rome.
We offer teachers from all school levels (ISCED from 1 to 4 in particular) a free experimental programme that provides them with training and practicl tools aimed at developing their own citizenship skills and their ability to enhance them in their didactic activity and educational context.
The next general presentation of these initiatives, that we called “Multiscale CIVIC EDUCATION FOR THE EUROPEAN EDUCATION AREA”, will take place in the form of an Open Online Webinar we will repeat on 12 December 2023 and 16 January 2024 – both at 4pm Central European Time. More information in the leaflet below.
Following the first round of selection, we did not receive a confirmation of participation from 4 out of the 30 selected applicants whose list is published here.
As a consequence, we have to reassign the four vacating scholarships to the following applicants, ranking from 31st to 34th in the selection procedure:
ΑΔΑΜΑΝΤΙΑ ΠΟΥΛΙΟΥ
BLANKA BARMPAGIANNI
MARIA DRAKOPOULOU
VAIA MANOLI
Newly selected applicants have to confirm their participation within wednesday, 1st November 2023.
Further update (30 October 2023), after we received all answers from the 4 applicants listed above: 1 scholarhip had to be assigned to the next ranked applicant, who is
NEKTARIOS FARASOPOULOS
31st October 2023: the vacating scholarhip has still to be assigned, the next ranked applicant (who has to confirm) is
We remind all applicants and other interested teachers in the EU that we will organise a new, Spring edition of this initiative, offering 30 new scholarships whose recipients will be selected among the same call for applications that is still open (deadline 5th November 2023).
Winter edition scholarship winners, as listed below in alphabetical order (by name and surname), have now to officially confirm their participation by Wednesday, 25th October 2023 at the latest (in the absence of such a confirmation, we will reassign the vacating scholarship – update: read here the communication about the confirmation procedure results)
MULTISCALE CIVIC EDUCATION FOR THE EUROPEAN EDUCATION AREA
The Winter training ‘Multiscale Civic Education for the European Education Area’ offers an insightful and stimulating experience to rethink the school curriculum and to renovate classroom practices, methodologies and materials in all disciplinary areas and school levels, from an innovative perspective on civic agency that enhances and reinvigorates XXth Century ‘critical’ and ‘active’ approaches to pedagogical experimentation.
General Course Information
The training is supported by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme, in the framework of the Jean Monnet Teacher Training project “Multiscale EU“. It is open to in-service teachers of all school levels, from ISCED 1 to 4, and from all EU countries. The course schedule is designed to foster advanced exchanges and engaged interaction with the course lecturers and among participants themselves, along a three-day immersive in-person programme that allows also for extra activities in the beautiful and green location of the Villa Casana park in Novedrate, near the Como Lake. Course activities and participants’ accommodation are provided by the eCampus University facilities. The course adopts a consistent and convinced ‘multilingual’ policy: working languages will depend strictly on selected participants’ skills and will aim at enhancing all mother tongue resources available in the participants’ group. Upon successful completion of the Winter training, you receive a certificate acknowledging your participation. See below for a detailed schedule of the training programme.
Application procedure and scholarships
The Multiscale EU Summer training seeks participants from any EU country who are in-service teachers in the primary or secondary or post-secondary non-tertiary education levels. Up to 30 scholarships are available to cover all costs of participation: travel costs are refunded up to 200€, no tuition fees, accommodation and subsistence directly offered at the University campus.
Since the scholarships available for this winter round of our training initiative are just 30, on the one hand, and the travel costs will continue to raise in the next weeks, on the other hand, we decided the following:
we’ll select the 30 winners of the Winter School scholarships among the applications we received within tomorrow, 18th October 2023;
we’ll communicate and publish online the 30 selected winners by the end of this week: we ask all those who will be selected to officially confirm their participation by the 25th October – in case of no answer we’ll proceed with the selection of other applicants;
we’ll organise a Spring/Summer edition of our training initiative, always in Novedrate, offering 30 new scholarships;
we’ll select the Spring/Summer scholarships winners among the applications collected through the present call, that for this purpose will remain open up until the official deadline (5th November 2023);
we already invite you all to take part to an online training initiative that we decided to offer to all applicants – the initiative will start with an online meeting that we will schedule in two different dates in order to facilitate everybody’s participation. On that occasion you will have the opportunity to explore with us the various training and didactic opportunities our project can provide to you and your school: after the meeting, all interested teachers will be able to design and submit a specific classroom experimentation that we’ll certify as structured training hours, once implemented, duly documented and after discussion of its results with us. We’ll communicate the dates of the online meetings as soon as possible but we can anticipate that they will take place in November.
The selection procedure is carried out by the Multiscale EU project team on the basis of the following criteria:
Eligibility: candidates must be in-service teachers at ISCED level 1 to 4 in any of the EU national school and education systems.
Commitment to put in question and to enhance personal civic skills both in relation with and independently from his/her professional role.
Coherence of personal motivation with Multiscale EU project objectives.
The selection will also prioritize the maximisation of the number of national school systems represented by awarded participants and a viable balance among ISCED levels and linguistic skills in order to allow for cooperative workshops during the training experience. The selection procedure may also include an online oral interaction in order to better assess candidates.
From Thursday to Sunday (7-9 July 2023) the Multiscale EU Summer School for teachers will take place in Novedrate eCampus seat, with selected participants from all school levels and 6 different EU countries: Portugal, Romania, Poland, Italy, Spain, France.
Prof. Ulrike Guerot, Director of the European Democracy Lab, will intervene online on Sunday afternoon, to discuss with Multiscale EU project coordinators Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli, and with participants, about the current stage of Europeans’ Unity construction.
