Tra.C.I.E. project: Training Citizenship and Intercultural Education in Europe

Abstract

The paper is a report about the project “Training Citizenship and Intercultural Education: methods and resources for adult learning (Tra.C.I.E.)”, that is funded by EC (LLP – Grundtvig, Multilateral projects). It involves organizations of 5 European countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, and Spain) and it is aimed at developing a set of curricula for the training of the educators in the field of Intercultural and Citizenship Education. During the first stages of the project, an analysis of the main needs of the target groups in the countries of the consortium was performed. At the same time, through the exchange of best practices a set of training resources was selected. Then, on the basis of these works, 6 training curricula were created. Currently, these curricula are being field-tested and evaluated in each country with 420 participants which belong to the target groups of the project. The results of the testing will be used to define the set of training curricula depending on the needs of different target groups. The final version of the training curricula will be published in a manual and DVDs.