EU and the young generation of Slovenian Students

In Slovenia

For the second phase of the project DESIRE, we implemented an event in cooperation with the higher vocational college in Novo mesto, at the School of Economics. The participants were the first-year students of economics or media production. The event was originally meant to be done in person, as the schools have been operating by then, but 2 of the students have gotten infected with Covid-19 and thus the class was in quarantine. We ended up doing the event online. 6 At first the project DESIRE was presented to the students along with the aim of the project and its activities. History of the EU was then presented to the students with the visual aid of the videos (found on the EU learning corner). The videos explain the history of the EU, the purpose of its creation and how it grew. We wanted the students’ opinions about the use of a video as a learning method, as well as their opinion on how we can create something similar. Some of the students were studying media production which is why we believed they would have some knowledge and views on the subject. In the discussion that followed, they expressed their views, and came up with ideas for the video creation. Especially helpful in this last task were the students of media production. Together we started coming up with ideas for the video and did an outline for the script. They also pointed out that this sort of topic would be better presented in a video that uses the animations, rather than filmed videos with acting etc. The students however said, that they find this technique more difficult – especially since they are the first-years and have not gained the experience from this yet. As a result, we turned to an outside expert to do the video. We have worked with TIM IT in the past – for videos as well as graphics, websites, etc. We have turned to them with the ideas gathered at the school and the script, which they have later improved, done the animations, filmed the audio …