Tag: Citizen education

25. October 2022.

Through interactivity to greater youth political participation: Gong joins the MANTA project!

With its expertise, Gong contributes to the preparation of educational teaching materials to help motivate young people to become more politically active and better educated citizens.

19. March 2020.

In the times of pandemic we must not forget democracy

The Government of the Republic of Croatia, like most states, has adopted extraordinary measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Those measures should not be abused. Restrictions imposed must be motivated solely by public health reasons, enforced following the Constitution, and should last only for the duration of the pandemic. Gong considers […]

Mind to mind, hand in hand, EU citizens can catalyze change

According to a new democratic right, established in 2015, any EU citizen, together with commonly concerned neighbors, can launch an initiative to be brought before the European Commission. Any EU citizen has a mechanism at their disposal, through which EU policy and legislation could be influenced according to their concerns. The European Citizens’ Initiative is […]

Citizenship education still without any improvement

A new intersubject programme of citizenship education does not bring any improvements. Civil society has been replaced by community, nationalism has been inserted in places where it does not even fit the context and with everything we are seeing, the young are still being raised to be subjects, not citizens. The decision on adopting the […]

Public fact-checking event: Approachable EU

Croatia will not introduce Euro until at least 2023. Voter turnout for European Parliament elections is low, especially among the youth. The biggest threat for the future of the EU might not be euroscepticism, but "euro-indifference”. Those are answers to some of the questions asked on Gong's Europe Day event. How much is Croatia contributing […]

17. April 2019.

European populism, democracy and participation

European politics in recent years has been concerned with the rise and popularity of populism, especially among younger generations. Populist political options – it is argued – are gaining unprecedented success and are beginning to pose a systemic threat to the well-being of all European democracies. These are the empirical facts, as much as they […]

DETECT - Enhancing Digital Citizenship

Gong is participating in the implementation of the DETECT - Enhancing Digital Citizenship project, which aims to empower teachers and young people to recognize manipulative publications in social networks and resilience to the effects of disinformative political propaganda. Manipulative political messages garner great attention, both on social networks and in the "real world". Not only […]

Civic Education in Schools

GONG is currently working on training teachers to acquire the skills to teach students about civic engagement and participation in policy making. Because GONG believes in civic participation, it included an “Education for Citizenship Literacy” module in its curriculum to educate teachers about political decision-making processes and civic engagement. Workshops on these topics were held […]

18. April 2018.

Media Literacy in Schools

An educational program for educators and teachers tackling media literacy is one of the most important educational programs that GONG has designed. It aims to equip teachers to properly educate and inform their students about the significance of media literacy today. The program also focuses on teaching students how to develop a critical approach towards […]

6. November 2017.

Ambassadors of Solidarity

Intercultural learning involves learning about differences, other cultures and their customs, openness of communication, building relationships with others, and developing awareness that building a community in which we live is only possible with the involvement of all of its participants. Training for intercultural competences for young people, with the aim of interconnecting young people and […]

30. August 2017.

Teaching Interculturalisam for Solidarity & Inclusive Society

From 2 to 7 of July, a joint seminar by GONG and Nansen Dialogue centre was held in the city of Zadar in Croatia. Combining and upgrading two of the GEAR project partners' educational seminars that already proved to be successful – Nansen Dialogue Centre Osijek's Intercultural Education for Inclusive Societies and GONG's Civic Literacy […]

19. October 2015.

The media's balance between free speech and hate speech and how to develop media literacy in education and society

The conference between freedom of speech and hate speech – media literacy in the education system and society was held on October 16, 2015 at Journalists House, Perkovčeva 2, Zagreb. It is held with the financial support of the fund "Alumni Engagment Innovation " of the US State Department, the program centers on knowledge of […]

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