Latvia

LATVIA - Actions CAN Speak Louder than Words

Responsible and active citizenship

IN THIS TOpic we will focus on the socio-political aspect and entrepreneurship

We want to raise awareness that young people are citizens of Europe and of their own countries.

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations of country, city/ town and school - with emphasis on EU entry and what benefits it has brought to the participants.

WORKSHOPS

How to fight for a cause?

Petition stands

ACTIVITIES

Visits to socio-political initiatives, NGOs, entrepreneurial projects that educate citizens and promote active citizenship

Find out how such an civic initiative can start and promote a needy cause in the community

The hosting organisation will arrange an opportunity to do some specific volunteer work in the local community

Visit to the local municipality/ or parliament

How to set up/ start an organisation that helps other in the community

We will map in our town and local community organisations that are active in the local community society, NGOs,

We will meet with people who are invovlved in active citizenship

Volunteer work

• European Citizenship, raising awareness in young people that they are citizens of Europe, as well as citizens of their own countries

Methodology used - we want to apply a holistic approach, this means that we want to involve the cognitive, practical and attitudinal dimension of learning. We also want students to apply practically what they have learnt (influencing their attitudes, behaviour, world view)

Further we would like to apply open-ended learning method, which will allow for multiple solutions and answers to problems and issues, and students also learn to accept and respect other views. This way we want to promote self-confidence of participants in debates and discussions as our topics are bound to result in different opinions and understandings. Students must have the freedom to learn to disagree or come to opposite conclusions and still respect each others opinions.

We want to encourage wide participation in project activities (during and outside the LTAs).

We want to encourage value clarifications, students will have the opportunity to express their beliefs, values in a safe environment based on respect and dignity, freedom of thought and expressions

We want to carry out work in international teams, through cooperation and collaboration on project work

We want to carry out visits to organisations and institutions that promote civic society which will be based on learning through experience or discovery, developing ciritical thinking skills, communication, tolerance, etc. Some things cannot be learned they have to be experienced and lived.

We will look at

The 20 global themes (in alphabetical order) are:

1. Children

2. Citizenship and Participation

3. Democracy

4. Discrimination and Intolerance

5. Education

6. Environment

7. General Human Rights

8. Globalisation

9. Health

10. Media

11. Migration

12. Peace and Violence

13. Poverty

14. War and Terrorism

Key dates

The UN and many other organisations use the idea of a day of celebration or remem-brance day to draw the public’s attention to different aspects of human rights. Wehave gathered over ninety such “key dates” and suggest that you use them as pegs on which to hang your own actions. For example, a group of young asylum seekers in Denmark teamed up with the local branch of Danish Red Cross Youth who have a café, and held a public event on Refugee Day, 20 June.

VIDEO LETTERS

Students will send each other video letters