IGOR

As part of the project Citizen Z: Strengthening the participation of young citizens in democratic and civic life, which is co-financed by the European Union from the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme, Prizma Association will hold two-day workshops on deliberative democracy for young people:
- in Rijeka on Saturday and Sunday, October 21 - 22, 2023.
- in Osijek on Saturday and Sunday, October 28 - 29, 2023.
- in Zagreb on Saturday and Sunday, November 4 - 5, 2023.

In the deliberative process, citizens jointly reflect on a specific topic, exchange opinions, analyze arguments and evidence presented by experts in order to reach a common understanding of the topic. Then they shape the achieved consensus into conclusions and recommendations for decision makers in the relevant area. As an introduction and preparation for the deliberative process, the program of each event will include informal workshops on media literacy, critical thinking, and forms of democratic and civic participation. The program will be held on Saturday and Sunday in the morning and early afternoon.

We will define the specific topics of the deliberative workshops in Rijeka, Osijek and Zagreb according to the results of this questionnaire, and we are asking for your help in doing so.

All those interested in participating are welcome, and applications are open through the mentioned questionnaire until 14.10. for Rijeka, until 21.10. for Osijek and until October 28, 2023. for Zagreb. The target group is young people aged 15 to 25 (75% of participants) and others 25+ (25%).

Our team, Klaudija Gašpar, history teacher at O.Š. Antuna Kanižlića and Igor Štavlić participated in an education on promoting Active Citizenship through Young Work on the island of Veli Iž from September 29 to October 6, 2023. During the training, there was an excellent working atmosphere and extremely motivated and proactive participants. The selection of topics and the methodology of the education implementation were excellently prepared and conducted...🙂

We improved our knowledge and exchanged experiences related to the functioning of the European Union, European values and fundamental rights promoted through the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, and for the purpose of promoting Active Citizenship through Young Work. Furthermore, we dealt with logical errors in reasoning, methods of detecting fake news and deliberative democracy and its methods. Through the above, we strengthened our skills of critical thinking and media literacy.

IGOR, Lifelong Learning Cenre in Nature, is a project partner together with project partners from seven EU countries, namely: Fedactio (Belgium) VitaTiim (Estonia), Prizma Association (Croatia), Ottovolante Sulcis (Italy), Young Folks (Latvia ), Tavo Europa (Lithuania), Splora (Spain).

The project is co-financed by EU funds from the Erasmus+ program.

On September 9 and 10, 2023, a preparatory visit was held and, together with our partners, we developed an education program called "Civitas: Promoting Active Citizenship through Youth Work 2023", which will be held at the end of September at the DKC School of the Prizma Association in Velo Iž . The topics of education will be active citizenship, European values and work with young people. IGOR is a partner in the project...