@thecivics.bsky.social
First pan-European non-profit promoting mapping, exchange, learning & innovation in #civic #education bottom-up. Running #NECE, the European network for Civic Education. π₯
π Weβre pleased to announce a new CIF winner supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation: OEEK! They will organise the MigrAction Ideathon in Warsaw, uniting migrants, local residents, and NGOs to overcome polarisation and advance peacebuilding through collaboration.
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How do we remember a shared, yet divided past?
Our NECE Lab in Belene, Bulgaria, brought together historians, educators, civil society leaders, and policymakers to explore new and responsible ways of engaging with history.
After 4 years of piloting, we are expanding to 6 new countries with our ReLEAD programme. It helps employees build civic & leadership skills through 4 online modules, turning work into a space for reflection, engagement & democratic learning.
π Watch intro here: youtu.be/3vo6iQjwKXQ
When young people learn how money shapes institutions, they better understand their choices β and those affecting their communities.
Jana KovaΔΎovΓ‘, Milan Petrovic and Nina von Gayl share how financial literacy is evolving from a personal skill into a driver of civic power.
Read more: t.ly/j3htd
This NECE Magazine interview with @jbrandsberg.bsky.social and Michelle Blanchet shows why economics education needs updating. Students are ready for a curriculum that reflects interdependence, care, and ecological limits.
If you work in education or policy, read and pass it on: t.ly/swgmf
β³ One week to go!
NECE Campus Webinar: Transformative experiences in civic education
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Tue, 25 Nov | 14:00β15:00 CET
Join educators Andrew Peterson, Fernande Raine, Juan Luis Fuentes, JoΓ£o Tavares, and Susan Rivers to explore what drives real civic learning.
π Register: t.ly/XW0w5
βοΈ Another CIF project, Balkan Human Rights Cities Initiative, successfully implemented!
ASDO conducted a Municipal Needs Assessment Survey to create the first Map of Challenges and Opportunities: thecivics.eu/wp-content/u...
This map lead to 4 capacity building trainings for municipalities
Democracy isnβt inherited β itβs rebuilt, together, every day.
Gauri van Gulik from the Better Politics Fund shares how hope becomes a political force through courage & collective action.
π Read her interview in NECE Magazine: HOPE: t.ly/6WYH3
How we understand identity and belonging shapes the future of democracy in Europe.
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
π Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
What makes civic education transformative?
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazilβs Rede Nacional de Educação CidadΓ£ and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Young people know whatβs at stake, and theyβre asking to be taken seriously as co-authors of democracy.
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
How can schools become engines of community change?
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar PeΕinovΓ‘ (JINAG) on Improve Your School β a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
π Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
π²πͺ βTowards a European Space for Citizenship Educationβ brought together educators, policymakers, and civil society from across Europe to discuss how to strengthen democracy through education.
π Read more from our participation in the conference here: thecivics.eu/2025/10/28/s...
Honoured that one of our co-founders, Louisa Slavkova, spoke at #eTwinning2025 on citizenship education & βskills for life.β She reminded us that classrooms are civic infrastructure β where belonging, curiosity & democracy grow.
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
π A milestone for civic education in Brazil!
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the countryβs first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
Join us at the #NECECampus with Alexandra Stef to explore how communities turn care into action through shared fundraising, local grantmaking, and simple ways to keep people involved. Real stories from Romania and across Europe show how lasting change begins close to home.
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
π βYou canβt cultivate wellbeing in children if the adults are depleted.β
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
π± Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Across the world, young people face huge questions about the future β from climate anxiety to conflict and wellbeing.
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
Join our next NECE Campus session to explore HistoriCall β a digital toolbox by the House of European History that reimagines Europeβs story through interactive, student-centred learning.
ποΈ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00β16:00 CEST
ποΈ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
π Register: t.ly/k3f0F
In @nytimes.com, our Louisa Slavkova reminds that civic education isnβt a side project β itβs the work that keeps democracy functional.
Politics may fill the airwaves, but civic understanding is thinning. The task now is to rebuild the infrastructures of how we learn to live together.
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π± Can hope drive social change?
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope β when paired with a sense of efficacy β can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
π Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
π At this year's NECE Festival: HOPE in Oslo, RedeNEC, CENESA & THE CIVICS, as co-creator of NECE signed a joint declaration uniting civic educators across continents.
π€ With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
βWe are citizens by nature.β
In this NECE Festival: HOPE clip, Jon Alexander (CITIZENS) shares why civic education must trust people and give them real decisions. Watch and share: youtu.be/ldcE8Csmz90 #CivicEducation #Participation
Can civic-minded companies boost both productivity and employee satisfaction?
π₯Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....
At NECE Festival: HOPE, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann showed how regenerative economics can reshape the way we teach and learn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...
π New call for projects: Civic Innovation Fund supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung!
Up to β¬10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
π Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
π‘ What happens when ordinary citizens are trusted to help shape a nationβs future?
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
π magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
Weβre pleased to share that our capacity-building programme for employees in the corporate sector will continue, thanks to renewed funding. With the relaunch of our programme ReLEAD. Learn more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel....
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βEmpathy can be trained and spread like a social contagion.β
Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...
Civic education can inspire when it feels like play. Our next #NECECampus with Tracy Saad of Commence Games explores how game-based learning opens doors to bias-free, participatory civic life. Join us here: t.ly/gA3nR
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