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A EU DEFENCE TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS

European Citizens' initiative for a European Defence

 

Against the growing global instability, against the changing geopolitical orientation of the US administration, against the inability to take effective action to resolve conflicts, from the invasion of Ukraine to the war in Gaza, which undermine Europe's stability and security, ‘Europeans must finally take responsibility for their own security’. This is the appeal launched to all European citizens, an appeal for a common European defence that all of you are invited to sign up.

 

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EumanCesUE  is involved in the "call for proposal" Jean Monnet Projects 2016 with a project addressed to the italian art schools, Licei Artistici, Musicali and Choreutic which aims to transform the European Awareness Days in a powerfull tool of European Civic Education.

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 (NEXT EVENT), at Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, the conclusive European Awareness Day will close the EUMAN Project with the award of the "It's Euman" Contest.

Past events:

  • Friday, 28 April, 2017, at Teatro Sociale in Busto Arsizio (VA) was played the Partecipative European Awareness Day by CesUE 's group with and the students of Liceo Candiani - Baush and other Licei of Lombardia.
  • Monday 13 mMarch 2017, Aula Magna of Liceo Candiani - Baush, in Busto Arsizio (VA): third meeting of deepening with Francesco Pigozzo on "Migrazione. Una priorità per la Commissione Europea".
  • friday, 20 jannuary 2017, Aula Magna of Liceo Candiani - Baush, in Busto Arsizio (VA): second meeting of deepening with Francesco Pigozzo on "Capire i fenomeni migratori contemporanei".
  • Monday 12 december 2016, Aula Magna of Liceo Candiani - Baush , in Busto Arsizio (VA): first meeting of deepening with Francesco Pigozzo on "L'Unione Europea questa sconosciuta".
  • Monday 28 november 2016, Liceo Candiani (Busto Arsizio, VA): selection screenings for instrumentalists, singers and actors involved in the training course aimed at staging "Europe: what a passion!". .

EUMAN is the first project that CesUE (Centro studi, formazione, comunicazione e progettazione sull’Unione Europea e la global governance Srl) presents within the Erasmus* program after years of expertise on European Civic Education that CesUE developed trought prestigious collaborations with Italian and European University and think tank.

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.

Three groups of activities run parallel in the program:

  1. In each Italian regional capital, CesUE leds a training morning at one of the partner school, during which:
    • the Recital “Europe: what a Passion! will be projected (a musical recital that mentally engages the story of the European integration process from World War II to today) as an example of artistic creation inspired by the problem of European unification process;
    • a dialogical lesson will be proposed, by CesUE, focused on the relationship between the EU, the mass migration to Europe and the political instability at EU borders;
    • the national creative contest “It’s EUman!” will be launched: the contest is addressede to groups of students (at least two students or group-class or group-schools) with the aim of producing original cross-media works between all fields of literary, figurative, audiovisual and / or performative arts, to produce a video recording to be submitted to a committee composed by representatives of CesUE, RAI and a referent for each of the partner schools networks, to partecipate to the contest. The awards ceremony will take place at a public event in Rome at Spazio Europa at the end of the project. The best works will be published on the RAI School website.
  2. CesUE will be involved in experimentation and dissemination through detailed didactic package of an innovative educational program that exploits a best practice of EU communication (European Awareness Days, featuring a music recital show on EU history and challenges) to transform it into a fully participatory event organized by students as a result of structured learning activities focused on EC migration priority (multidisciplinary teaching that puts the EU at the core of targeted schools curricula, conferences and public events that will involve local civil society).
  3. As follow-up activity of the project, with value for further dissemination of results, Milan will host a new European Awareness Day representation, in a new specifically developed version, in a city theater involving the Lombardy schools, with particular reference to the regional network of Artistic, Musical and Core Teaching Lectures.

Partners of the project:

  1. Rete nazionale Licei Artistici Italiani

    Rete Nazionale Licei Artistici Italiani

  2. Rete nazionale "Qualità e sviluppo dei Licei Musicali e Coreutici"

    Rete Nazionale Licei Musicali e Coreutici

  3. Rappresentanza della Commisione europea in Italia

    Rappresentanza Commissione Europea in Italia

  4. Rai Cultura

    http://www.raiscuola.rai.it

  5. FASI.biz network

    http://www.fasi.biz

  6. Liceo Candiani - Baush

    http://www.artisticobusto.gov.it

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AWAREUAwarEU - European Awareness is a project financed within the Call Social Inclusion through Education, Training and Youth of the Key Action 3 Initiatives for Policy Innovation of Erasmus Plus.

The project will start in December 2016 and will be concluded by December 2018.

Past events:

(The European Awareness Days of the AWAREU Project are open to the participation of citizens, schools and university students. Free admission, reservations required, to book: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

  • WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE 2017 - Albert Halls in Stirling - Albert Place, Dumbarton Rd - European Awareness Day;
  • TUESDAY 25 APRILE 2017 - Teatro de la Luz Philips Gran Vía - Calle Gran Vía, 66, Madrid - European Awareness Day;
  • WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017 - Teatro Olimpico in Roma - Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17 - European Awareness Day;
  • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2017 - Teatro Tivoli in Lisbon - Avenida da Liberdade 182-88 - European Awarness Day.

The project will upscale and upgrade the European Communication format of the European Awareness Day (EAD) developed by CesUE. The communicative logic of the (EAD), which includes a Musical Recital on the EU will be used to develop a course on EU history for students offered on a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Vle logo4

The VLE will also host specific courses for teachers and journalists, and a short basic course for the general public to help people understand the EU.

The VLE will also host a Blog, Newsletter and other interactive features to accompany the project participants and keep them updated on EU issues.

The partnership, led by CesUE, is composed by:

  • CesUE (Italy);
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa e dal Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros – Centro de Informação e Documentação Jacques Delors (Portugal);
  • Universidad CEU San Pablo di Madrid (Spaign);
  • Jacques Delors Institute di Parigi (France);
  • University of Stirling (Stirling, Scotland – UK);
  • University of Aston (Birmingham, UK)

AwarEU counts on a vast number of Associated Partners that will help disseminate the project, including the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Italian Ministry of Education, the European Broadcasting Union, the Italian Order of Journalists and many NGOs, schools and relevant stake-holders in the various countries involved.

The Project is open to further adhesions and cooperation.

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CesUE is always looking for partners for new projects and initiatives.

On the basis of its expertises, CesUE makes its competence available to businesses, public administrations, and civil society organizations on:

  • research and development of local and international stakeholders’s networks;
  • re-engineering of organizational and administrative processes;
  • strategic consultancy;
  • european funding consultancy;
  • projects design and managemen;
  • competence assessment;
  • designing and realizing of training/coaching modules;

...and in any other way it may be usefull to adapt its organization to the multilevel global context in which we all work today.

 

 

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Research, education and civil activism as businesses

We have decided to make a business out of it because it is quite an achievement to put academic, didactic, artistic and communicative professional skills at stake in the name of the complex multilevel society that every human being today is part of. Our only profit is the cultural and political growth of an intercultural society united within the framework of multilevel democratic institutions. Our mission is to really contribute to its development, transforming it from the hope of an ethical value to a widespread need and interest leading to induce subsequent behaviors. Our bet is to take part in the construction of a world open to changes, oriented towards responsibility and the enhancement of diversity.

Our guiding values

  • active and responsible multilevel citizenship inspired by creativity and science;
  • priority to the process of European political unification as a (f)actor of community-building and cosmopolitan development;
  • cooperative attitude;
  • pluralism and methodological versatility in every area of action.

CesUE was born in january 2013

On the initiative of the Scuola Sant'Anna's group of ECE, European Civic Education, led by Roberto Castaldi and Francesco Pigozzo, the Non-profit Association already called Cesue (despite a slightly different name in full) and the Cultural Association "Gli Spaesati". These realities are now integrated into a single, autonomous corporate tool that facilitates their synergies, greatly strengthens the valorization of their results and allows the development of new services and activities based on value-added transmedia creativity and advanced and interdisciplinary research..

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The decision to establish CesUE and accredit it as the Spin-Off of the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa is a result of a successful series of ECE European Civic Education initiatives, led by Roberto Castaldi and Francesco Pigozzo, realized in the framework of this well-known Italian centre of excellence dedicated to teaching and researching in the fields of social and applied sciences, has experienced innovative European communication and training tools within some of the most cutting-edge projects at the continental level: short descriptions of projects are available on the School's website. Right from these initiatives, the School has created the current research group in European Studies at the DIRPOLIS Institute, which keeps collaborating with CesUE in many fields and projects.

gli spaesati

A key role in the success of the "Learning EU at School" projects initially promoted at the Scuola Sant'Anna has been played by the inclusion and enhancement of artistic products and creative and managerial skills of a small cultural association devoted to the design and implementation of communicative products with high aesthetic and at the same time civic values, called Gli Spaesati (Les Dépaysés). In that context, Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli created two original theatrical works that play today an essential part of the European Awarenss Days format but continue also to live as autonomous works: Europe: What a Passion! and How Is the World?, which translates the ideal of European unity into prose theater language, drawing inspiration from a text of the Ventotene exile of one of Europe's fathers, Altiero Spinelli. The work embodies a ruthless blend between the theater of the absurd and political theater, engaging the two protagonists in a deadly interpretive tour de force and spectators in an engaging adventure on the edge between nonsense and meaning, slavery and freedom, hallucination and action.

cesue associazione

CesUE takes its name from a previous non-profit association, Cesue Centro Studi, documentazione e formazione sull'Unione Europea, from which it also inherits the human capital accumulated in fifteen years of project, training, scientific and consulting experience.

Cesue was founded in 1995 in Florence by a group of academics, professionals and experts on European integration with the aim to spread information, foster debates, research and training on issues related to the European integration process. The non-profit association is still active.

Starting by 2019

During 2019 CesUE'group changed, as the decision of Francesco Pigozzo and Daniela Martinelli to continue independently their activities, so that to devote themselves to the specific development of their artistic and pedagogical research - without thereby changing the spirit and objectives that remain shared with CesUE.

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A EU DEFENCE TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS

European Citizens' initiative for a European Defence

 

Against the growing global instability, against the changing geopolitical orientation of the US administration, against the inability to take effective action to resolve conflicts, from the invasion of Ukraine to the war in Gaza, which undermine Europe's stability and security, ‘Europeans must finally take responsibility for their own security’. This is the appeal launched to all European citizens, an appeal for a common European defence that all of you are invited to sign up.

 

Read and sign up