European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS- LLL

European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS- LLL) analysis LLL-Mag #2 – May 2013 in focus info WE interview MAKE EUROPE featured story resources European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS- LLL) analysis LLL-Mag #2 – May 2013 in focus info WE interview MAKE EUROPE featured story resources politics through vot- p.4/ Edito ing and political party membership to Europe: doing more with it • Interview of Dan Perjovschi Let’s start with a worrying reality: most of our community engage- citizens don’t know how the EU functions and ment through volun- more and more feel estranged from the Eu- teering. To give the ropean political project. They know that de- reader a vivid and Learn’in Europe Experienc’in Europe Act’in Europe cisions made at the EU level have an impact telling insight into on their everyday life. However, they feel this diverse reality, very little democratic ownership for what is we have been gath- p.8/ p.29/ p.50/ undoubtedly seen as a complex and far away ering and compil- system. At a time of increasing social polar- ing a great variety of The European Living together The EU in need isation and shrinking political engagement voices, stories and across many countries, the notion of Euro- resources. Artists, pean citizenship seems to be under threat. politicians, activists Citizenship, in a shared Europe of political Everywhere in Europe citizens are calling for and association lead- more social justice, for quality health and ed- ers of all ages, gen- an unidentified • EFIL exchange programme participation ucation services and enhanced social pro- ders and countries Audrey Frith at Sorry We’re Closed, Dan Perjovschi’s exhibition, 2013. for intercultural learning and active tection and for quality jobs. New forms of have agreed to share their opinion and ex- European citizenship, by Blandine Smilansky. engagement appear, most of the time, to ar- perience of what active European citizenship • Citizens’ participation in EU democratic political project? • Learning Mobility vs. Nobel Peace Prize, ticulate demands at the national level, but means for them. life: challenges and opportunities, by Stefano Tirati. some movements give evidence of a broad- interview of Katarína Neveďalová, • Young Europeans’ constructions • Defending the future EU programme er trend. The call of Stephane Hessel “Time The prism chosen to address the topic is the Member of the European Parliament. of identity in the new countries of Europe, for education, training, youth and sport, for Outrage!” to revive the flame of civil re- role of learning. Indeed education and train- interview of Alistair Ross. interview of Doris Pack, sistance and the emergence of an unconven- ing, when viewed from a lifelong and life- Member of the European Parliament. tional political party like the “Pirates” quick- wide perspective, are largely recognised as p.56/ ly spread throughout Europe and beyond. being among the most effective incentives p.14/ These are only the most visible examples of to fostering participatory citizenship. Many p.36/ Is there such a a common determination existing across na- good examples exist in formal, non-formal tional borders demonstrating that concepts and informal learning. Learning mobility is Citizenship such as civic engagement and active citizen- also a key in developing a sense of belong- Building thing as a ship are still alive and kicking. ing and we are of course looking at current education in the EU budgetary negotiations for education, together a more European public This magazine captures some of the sparks training, youth and sport. In this magazine of civic engagement and aims to contribute we also outline the role played by thousands spotlight to the debates taking place in the context of of European and national associations to inclusive Europe opinion? the European Year of Citizens 2013. Its pur- bridge the gap between the EU and its citi- • How do you teach citizenship pose is bringing together various perspec- zens. I hope you will enjoy reading it. I would education in your classroom?, • SocialErasmus, Integrating international • Impact of Social Media on Active tives and experiences in order to show the particularly like to thank Dan Perjovschi, a interview of Ben Miskell and Niki Kyvelea. students into local communities, Citizenship in Eastern Partnership Countries, wealth and dynamism but also the limitations well-known Romanian cartoonist, for his gen- by Emanuel Alfranseder. by Shushan Khachatryan. and pitfalls of what is active European citi- erosity in donating the thoughtful drawings • Linking solidarity and citizenship: zenship nowadays. This European perspec- that you will see throughout the pages of this p.22/ challenges the EU should urgently address, tive is interesting as the concept of active magazine. interview of Marie-Christine Vergiat, p.60/ citizenship is rooted in different national Member of the European Parliament. traditions and covers a diversity of models Audrey Frith A diversity of throughout Europe. Its manifestations are Director of EUCIS-LLL Bridging the manifold, from the involvement in traditional memories in a p.44/ gap: the role of united Europe Europe: organised civil • Linking remembrance and citizenship: the anti-Eldorado the Europe for Citizens Programme, society interview of Pavel Tychtl. for migrants? • The Study Circle a practical workshop in democracy, by Peter Warner. • Diversonopoly: board game • European Convention of VET students: for intercultural communication, an eye-opening experience, by Tiia Meuronen. by Geoff Scaplehorn. • European organisations in education and training: key players to develop Participa- p.77/ tion, interview of Gina Ebner. We make Europe EUCIS-LLL key messages on the European Year of Citizens 2013 3 Dan Perjovschi How do you manage to be active and What kind of critique and/or subversive Europe: inspirational at the same time at the message does your work carry which international level and at the local you would say is particularly relevant for interview Born in 1961, Dan Perjovschi is in- level in your hometown Sibiu, and in Europe today? ternationally renowned for large doing more your country Romania? What place and small scale drawing installa- does Europe occupy in your “mental Hyper-bureaucracy, the catastrophic wish tions of hundreds of cartoon-like geography”? to regularise everything, the neoliberalism figures that comment on local, with it frenzy, the industrialisation of culture, the national and international cultur- There are projects everywhere. There are fear of the other, the 2 speed-3 speed inte- al and current affairs. He is also You translate social, cultural and political needs, issues and intellectual or activist plat- gration, the once a month EU Strasbourg bo- the foremost political cartoon life into unique drawings, halfway forms everywhere. If I am needed I come. nanza, the lack of solidarity, too much talk of satirist in Romania. between cartoons and graffiti. How do Every place is interesting. Europe is the most the economy, zero or little knowledge of oth- www.perjovschi.ro you relate and articulate art and civic radical political project of our times. No er times in history. I have a million reasons to activism? wars, free circulation, guarantee of human criticise and the first is: I care. rights, are you kidding? We should all fight I let my drawings do that. I do not know to keep it and improve it… Would you say there is some kind of what’s really going on in the field. It’s not my pedagogical value to your work as an territory. I am not an activist. But if people in- What does it mean for you to be active as artist? volved in social battles and political protests a European citizen? find my drawings relevant and need them Some kind, yes. But it’s funny, clever and an then that’s always fine by me. This is happen- We should all fight to keep it and improve open situation. You can leave at any moment. ing more and more all over the world. I found it… criticise it, de-neoliberalise it. Dare to do a “second life” in real life outside the closed more with it. circuit of art. What has led you to your work? I adapt to changing history (1989 fall of communist regimes) to the economic conditions (nobody has the money for my crates and trans- port and insuring my “masterpieces”). I also did 23 years of weekly drawing about transforma- tions in my country and the world. I am a We make Europe non-stop reporter. Portrait of Dan Perjovschi © Razvan Braileanu “News from the Island”, Dan Perjovschi, Reykjavik Contemporary Art Museum 2012 © Simon Stee 5 Dan Perjovschi, ATransparent Retrospective, CCC Tours 2012, ©François Fernandez I — Learn’in Europe 7 resources featured story interview info in focus analysis June 2012 states among its key findings:“It is certainly not putting it too strongly to speak The European analysis of ignorance of the institutions. (…) Europe- ans know only ‘very little’ about the function- Citizenship, ing of the EU and its institutions. More than a third of them cannot name three of the Eu- an unidentified ropean institutions.” Fostering active Eu- ropean citizenship starts at a basic level of awareness-raising and information-sharing. political project? Indeed, only well-informed individuals can become engaged citizens. Since 1992 and the Treaty of Maastricht, every citizen who is a national of a Member State Education is the preferred vehicle for creat- is also a citizen of the European Union. EU ing awareness, knowledge and understand- citizenship differs significantly from the tra- ing of European citizenship. Sta- What does EU citizenship mean to you? Would you associate it with : ditional concept of national citizenship. Eu- tistics show that the length of State of play regarding info ropean citizens make use of rights that de- education and remaining within rive from their countries belonging to the EU education are decisive criteria in the sense of European and its common market, rather than from EU determining how familiar people citizenship citizenship as such.

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