THE PCE PROJECT
Our OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the project is to develop first the European Culture as seen by a set of 10 countries, and then to have it taught in each country.
As European citizenship cannot be developed focusing only on institutional, economic, and social aspect, and disregarding culture – which is a much more powerful tool to enhance European citizenship.
Our METHODOLOGY
The ten partners countries have first identified the areas that Common European Culture (CEC) must cover, whether they are values, human artifacts, ideologies, religions, common heritage, history, traditions, moral principles, philosophies, educational norms, doctrines, moral principles, philosophies, doctrines, inventions, historical events, celebrities, historical places, common language, and new cultural tendencies (for instance Post-Truth or Wokism).
This was achieved by having each country establishing the cultural elements that should be part of the CEC as seen from their “window”. On this basis, it was possible for all countries to decide together what should be part of the CEC.
The next step is to have the CEC taught in one primary and one secondary school in each of the ten countries for a full school year and assess, at the end, the extend to which pupils have acquired a butter understanding of both CEC and their European citizenship. This would prove that the further development of the EU should be based on the recognition of the important role of the CEC and hence on its further development.
