Around 30 educators accepted the invitation to take part in the European Walking Center in 2025 as part of the political education. Several school classes had the opportunity to play through the political decision-making processes at EU level as part of a role-playing game and thus experience democracy up close. The year of commemoration-among other things 30 years of EU accession and 80 years of liberation from National Socialism-is advisable to go on the footsteps of Europe and to make democracy and parliamentarianism tangible and so tangible.
The European Walking led the House of the European Union, which is home to the representation of the European Commission and the connecting office of the European Parliament through the Austrian Parliament with its “Workshop Europe in the Democracy Workshop” to the “experience of Europe”: Here, Europe can be discovered in a simple and playful way with numerous multimedia stations. The Minister of Education, the MEP Andreas Schieder and Anna Stürgkh and the Polish ambassador Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz visited this last stop. The Polish ambassador reported on the Polish Presidency of 2025.
Education Minister Christoph Return: “I am pleased that this form of learning and experience is made possible as part of the action days of political education. It is shown impressively: Political participation is neither a matter of course nor is it by itself. These learning and experience spaces, as we see them here in the” experience of Europe “, offer space so that future generations can also grow up in a strong Europe. It is up to us to enable children and adolescents to know their rights and to perceive their responsibility in a diverse world. “
MEP Andreas Schieder: “The future of the European Union is in the hands of the young Europeans. It is therefore so important that young people come into contact with the European project as early as possible. Whether through Interrail, Erasmus exchange or the ambassador schools of the European Parliament – the EU has so many opportunities to make European democracy and its freedoms noticeable. do it.
MEP Anna Stürgkh: “Europe has to become a project of the boys again – with opportunities instead of limits. If we make education a fifth freedom of fundamental freedom, we finally create a Europe in which every training opens doors – regardless of the country in which country it was made. Our goal is clear: We want to send as many apprentices as students with Erasmus+ across Europe. Young people do not earn a Europe. Basic freedom – so that everyone has the same chance of learning, growing and arriving in Europe.
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