European Citizenship Academy

European Citizenship Academy (ECA)

KA3 Erasmus+

The European Citizenship Academy is a European youth education project which aims to engage young people and youth organisations in the democratic process and society by offering training, developing exchange and encouraging meetings, discussion and debate, to help them identify their link with the EU, its values and its democratic foundations.

To this end, a consortium of 8 youth associations of various sizes, both rural and urban, from all over Europe has been formed to develop content and materials for education about Europe in youth work, to implement youth exchanges on the subject, to support local peer educational actions on Europe and to promote education about Europe in youth work.

Designed as a non-formal, hybrid and gamified learning pathway, ECA develops a method that guides young people towards acquiring knowledge about the Union, appropriating their citizenship and finally becoming empowered as European citizens.

During the project 300 young people will be trained, 8 youth exchanges and local training of youth leaders will be implemented and an e-learning platform about education about the Eu in the youth field will be created.

As a European Union education project for young people, ECA aims to equip young people with a solid knowledge of the European Union and how it works, and to give them the means to act as European citizens, knowingly and actively. ECA is fully in line with European policies and ambitions for young people.