EUMAN - Arts and humanities for an inclusive EU
EUMAN stimulates EU civic education in a significant secondary school population with no EU specific coverage and the wherewithal to become a multiplier of pro-EU communication for the public opinion at all levels: teachers and students of Licei Artistico, Musicale and Coreutico in Italy (125.000 people following official statistics), devoted to audio-visual and performing arts. Two groups of activities run parallel in the program:
1. Experimentation and dissemination through detailed didactic package of an innovative educational program drawing on "Europe: what a Passion!" and the European Awareness Days to transform it into a fully participatory event organized by students
2.Decentralised conferences open to civil society in all 20 Italian regional chief-lieus through official networks of targeted schools that will enhance dissemination, knowledge on the migration "crisis" and will launch a national creative contest.
A final event took place in Milan, Teatro degli Arcimboldi, with the supporto of the Comune di Milano.
Period: 2016-2018
Project design and coordination: Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli
Institution: CesUE - spin-off society of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
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EUTrust - InEuropeWeTrust
Dzień Świadomości Europejskiej ('Europa: cóż za pasja! Historia burzliwej miłości")
A project by the Akademia inEuropa, a Warsaw based proEU think tank, where we realized (as our last activity formally labelled as CesUE) four projections of "Europa: cóż za pasja! Historia burzliwej miłości" (the Polish version of "Europe: what a Passion!') at Kino Atlantic for several hundreds of Polish young students and adult citizens, who took part to a following debate with us, Artur Wolski (Kino Atlantic director) and other invited guests (Polish-German youth association, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) - look here for specific info about the "European Awareness Days" event in the project. Period: 2018-2020
Realization of educational events: Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli
Institution: in.Europa / instytut.Europa (Poland)
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
AwarEU - European Awareness
AwarEU upscaled and disseminated the European Awareness Day format (pivoting around "Europe: what a Passion!') in the UK, Spain, France and Portugal (letting aside Italy) and tried to exploit their communication logic through stake-holders meeting in each country.
In the framework of this project, the partners network first developed a multilingual Virtual Learning Environment on the EU featuring four multimedia courses available in five languages.
EUPath - From Governance to Government
EUPath further developed the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa European civic education initiatives. Designed in tight cooperation with its spin-off society CesUE, the project directly involved some of its members in a deep cooperation in the organization and realization of several activities very closed interrelated, among which, a cycle of conferences and training activities dedicated to Tuscan students and teachers focused on the institutional transformations of the European Union, and a European Awareness Day held in Grosseto at the Teatro Moderno. Period: 2017-2019
Artistic coordination, summer school scientific coordination and didactic activities in European Awareness Day: Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
EUNews - How Europe is described?
EUNEWS was planned to stimulate EU civic education not only in a significant secondary school population with no EU specific coverage but also to become a multiplier of pro-EU communication for the public opinion at all levels: the idea of the project in fact stems from the need to build a European civic consciousness and a pro-EU communication for the public opinion in general, implementing the creation of a European public sphere. To do so, EUNews stirred a TV partnership with the Tuscany regional broadcasting company Granducato TV, that from December 2017 to May 2018 broadcasted a weekly “EUNews” TV program to discuss the main European issues and the EU agenda of the week with CesUE experts, involving high schools' students and the TV viewers into a truly supranational perspective on current affairs that can provide them with new effective tools to understand what’s going on today in Europe multi-level system of government. Seminars for students and training for teachers went parallel to the TV programme, while an European Awareness Day gathered more than 500 people in a public theatre as the project final event.
Period: 2017-2018
Artistic coordination and newsroom co-coordinator: Daniela Martinelli
Didactic activities and news team: Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: CesUE - spin-off society of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
EPAS - European Parliament Ambassador Schools
The European Parliament Ambassador School Programme is a network of schools across the EU raising awareness of European parliamentary democracy and European citizenship values. CesUE co-realized two editions of the programme for the information office of the EP in Italy.
Period: 2017-2018
Lectures in northern Italy: Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: CesUE - spin-off society of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the European Parliament
Gruppo pilota per l'inserimento della dimensione europea nell'educazione alla cittadinanza
Between 2015 and 2018, an agreement between the Italian government and the European Commission and Parliament gave input to a working group on the need to insert the European dimension into citizenship education at all school levels in Italy. This "Pilot group" discussed, finalized and tested a teachers' training programme to be implemented at national level.
Period: 2016-2018
Francesco Pigozzo worked at it as one of the selected experts at national level.
In the framework of an inter-institutional agreement between MIUR, Dipartimento Politiche Europee della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Ufficio d'informazione in Italia del Parlamento europeo, Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea
MoreEU - More Europe to overcome the Crisis
Euroskepticism rises, using false arguments. Academic knowledge on the EU should be used in the public debate, but universities do not reach out and EU teaching in high school is limited. MoreEU aims at filling this gap, targeting the 5 Euro-Plus capitals where the EU and the € are under euroskeptics attack.
The activities revolve around the question "What Europe is needed and how to get it?". Each capital hosted a European Awareness Day featuring "Europe: what a Passion!" in the relevant language, an academic international conference and a seminar for local NGOs and a stakeholders' meeting for European communication.
Period: 2015-2017
Artistic coordination in European Awareness Days: Daniela Martinelli
Communication and EAD didactic activites: Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
EUCivic - Empowering European Citizens through European Civic Education
EUCivic aimed at deepening and widening the reflection on democracy and European civic education (ECE), disseminating at national level the ECE educational and research work promoted by SSSUP in the past few years, successfully involving thousands of beneficiaries (mainly students, teachers, researchers and civil society associations) in Tuscany.
EUCivic transferred the European Awareness Days format, featuring "Europa: che Passione! Storia di un amore tormentato", to other Italian regions (events in Verona and Cagliari, beside a very big event in Florence, Teatro dell'Opera, filmed by RAI Cultura and broadcasted on RAI 5 and RAI Scuola), using their extended format including also an afternoon seminar for teachers and a debate with civil society representatives. EUCivic also featured two webinar series for school teachers.
Period: 2014-2016
Artistic coordination: Daniela Martinelli
Didactic activites: Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
EUrgencies@Dem - European Political Unity and Democracy: a shared destiny
The third Learning EU@School project realized at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies went back to "Europa: che Passione!" for a third tour of all Tuscany chief-lieus, this time prepared by specific training acitivites with teachers and a webinar series concerning the development of a conceptual map allowing for a better understanding of the European unification process.
Period: 2013-2014
Operational management and didactic activites: Francesco Pigozzo
Artistic coordination: Daniela Martinelli
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union
European Awareness Days
The event format featuring an original theatrical work followed by a specifically designed educational activity (lecture, direct and informal debate with the audience etc.) was first tested by Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo in 2008-2011 with the birth of the theatrical pièce "Come Va il Mondo?" and the subsequent conception of the music recital show "Europa: che Passione". But it was inside the Sant'Anna School projects that this format took its name of "European Awareness Day": this was also the name given to three big events in Naples (Città della Scienza), Rome (Teatro Argentina) and Milan (Teatro dal Verme) supported by the main national and European institutions managing in Italy the European Communication in 2013-4. These events were also the occasion to found a spin-off society (CesUE) to further enhance research results and educational expertises acquired through the Learning EU@School projects at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.
Period: 2013-2014
Artistic and operational coordination: Daniela Martinelli
Didactic coordination: Francesco Pigozzo
Institution: CesUE - spin-off society of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Funded by the Managment Partnership for European communication in Italy
EUWay - The European way out of crisis
EUWay has been the second Learning EU@School project by the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, directly linked to EUGlobal. In this new working programme, a second tour of Tuscany cities featured this time the theatrical pièce "Come Va il Mondo?", dealing with the cultural context and the political vision behind both the birth of the European integration process and today need for revitalizing it - in the specific perspective of one of its main but controversial founders, Altiero Spinelli. EUWay also provided Tuscany schools with direct classroom activities and a multimedia didactic unit about the financial crisis and its specific European (and economic, social, institutional, political) dimension.
Period: 2012-2013
Operational management and didactic activites: Francesco Pigozzo
Artistic coordination: Daniela Martinelli
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union
EUGlobal - The EU as a project and a resource to govern globalization
Winning the first ever "Learning EU@School" call for applications in 2011, EUGlobal kicked-off the European Civic Education initiatives at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies through a Jean Monnet project tailored to the Tuscany school system and originally grounded on the music recital show "Europa: che Passione! Storia di un amore tormentato" written and represented by Daniela Martinelli and Francesco Pigozzo (Daniela Martinelli being also the director). Beside a theatrical tour that reached prestigious rooms and big audiences in each of the ten chief-lieus of the region (the event in Florence took place at the Teatro Verdi and was filmed and broadcasted by the regional TV chain Telegranducato), EUGlobal also provided Tuscany teachers with a training seminar and a written course on EU matters for secondary school students (ECE Module).
Period: 2011-2012
Operational management and didactic activites: Francesco Pigozzo
Artistic coordination: Daniela Martinelli
Institution: Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Co-funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union