The eCampus telematic University is a young and well-established reality of the Italian academic world that bases its development on the high competence and quality of its teaching staff and its eLearning infrastructure.

with the EUAct Project – Active Learning for an active EU citizenship, that reached the very first places in the continental ranking of Jean Monnet 2017 projects selected by the European Commission, eCampus won its first European Erasmus+ project, conceived by Francesco Pigozzo in close collaboration with the Multilevel Integration and Governance Process Research Center of CesUE directed by Roberto Castaldi.

the project will involve the secondary schools of the second degree of the 11 cities in which cui eCampus is present with a range of free activities, highly innovative result of good practice as recognized by the Ministry of Education and the European Commission, among the others:

• “Europe: what a Passion!”, the Recital will be project in the cinemas in events followed by a debate with the audience in the hall;
• Workshops addressed to teachers, structured in innovative mixed ways in presence and through eLearning, but consistent with the pilot training program developed by MIUR, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Policy Department for the implementation of the agreement on Europe in schools (http://hubmiur.pubblica.istruzione.it/web/istruzione/dettaglio-news/-/dettaglioNews/viewDettaglio/33357/11210);
• A contest that will give the opportunity to get the full coverage of the costs of participating in an intensive Summer School dedicated to students from Italian secondary schools interested in European items and to receive a specific orientation for the development of university and career paths open to European and international dimension of european contemporary society.

Considering both aspects relating to knowledge and action training, constitutes a key-word for CesUE.

CesUE aims at reaching knowledge and raising knowledge so as to act, being aware of the fact that in the field of Social Sciences and History knowing means acting.

CesUE has always carried out training for trainers at all educational level, as well as for pupils attending the last 3 years of secondary school. Our next step will be to involve also under 17 pupils, and all those adults who benefit from training courses co-funded by the European Union.

European Civic Education and the Nurturing of Diversity - interdisciplinary themes through which foster a democratic and multilevel active citizenship - are crucial to CesUE training activities.

European Civic Education: what a stranger! The relationship between “Europe” and its citizens – whatever their age – is paradoxical. Indeed, notwithstanding the 60 years of benefits – let’s think to growth, wealth, enhancement of democracy in a globalized world, social and environmental sustainability, and so forth – Europe is little known or deformed by stereotypes. As a result, misunderstandings and skepticism towards the European Union is (further) tarnishing general loyalty to the ideal of European unity.

CesUE was established in order to address this challenge, and to innovate the way European citizens are trained and informed about European Union issues. Indeed, we do believe that citizens might play a pivotal role in shaping the ongoing integration process.

CesUE sees European unity as one of the most urgent among current issues. Hence, to the purpose to foster multilevel participation, we need to form a European civic consciousness.

The number 39 of the series I Quaderni della Ricerca di Loescher is in all the bookshops. Born from the multi-level experiences of the Accordo di Programma and the pilot group to introduce the European dimension in the teaching of "Citizenship and Constitution" in the Italian school system.

The CesUE's founders contributed as experts to the work of the pilot group and in the volume with three essays.

EUPath is the Jean Monnet Project 2017 that allows the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa to further develop its European civic education initiatives.

Designed in tight cooperation with CesUE experts, this project will directly involve them in the organization and realization of several activities among which a European Awareness Day and a summer school on European subjects and active citizenship tailored to young students from Tuscany secondary schools.