YES - Youth Educational Systems
The project Youth Educational Systems (YES) of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna was launched in November 2009.
Recognized by Europeans Evaluating Bodies as one of the 17 nationwide projects worth of funding for the high quality of the educational proposal, the "YES” project is the definition of a bilateral partnership in the context of the "Comenius Regio" Action of the EU program "Lifelong Learning Program", aimed at promoting a "permanent structured cooperation" between the regions involved.
Referring to the need to improve participation in lifelong learning programs - as specified in the Lisbon Strategy - the project "Youth Educational Systems" aims at developing a standardized training and continuing professional development for teachers of different subjects and for Experts in socio-cultural activities addressed to younger generations, as they significantly improve their abilities and skills, increasing ultimately the quality of teaching.
The project, with a two-year duration, has a budget of 65 thousand euro and avails of the bilateral partnership set up with the Region of Iasi ( Romania ). The project focuses its activities on key elements of higher education, addressing the specific needs of the learning process, fully considering the European Civil Society Platform for Lifelong Learning to the European Commission.
The project's topic
The issues tackled during the activities of the project are:
- European citizenship and European dimension
- learning about the European partner country
- intercultural education
- key competences
- school failure
- comparing educational systems
- identifying methods for increasing pupil motivation
- development of common training contents and concepts
