VIRTUAL: Applying Education
Abstract
The European Union (EU) is one of the great development projects of mankind in the twentieth century. However, recent years have seen a rise in populist discourse and politics of exclusion within its borders. This trend impacts the future of the European project, as it challenges the functioning of its institutions, constituting, a threat to its fundamental values. Bearing in mind this disturbing and demanding context, a team of researchers from the University of Coimbra (UC) set up the EUROVALUES project. Using the methodological premise of the co-construction of knowledge, EUROVALUES stimulates analysis, debate, and artistic creation around the values shared by all member states, at two levels: 1) With secondary school groups, using different interactive methodologies. The aim is to promote critical and analytical dialogue on EU’s values, their conditioning factors, and their historical roots among students. The workshops aim to develop a “geography of affections” mapping the EU’s values through the written word, which later serves as a basis for the creation and production of installation art and performances. 2) With teacher training courses, whose purpose is to support the creation and management of open learning environments, to foster the full participation of the youngest in civic life. Based on the dialogue between science, culture, and art, EUROVALUES focuses on the dissemination of research and knowledge produced at UC, among school communities, and in approaching Civil Society (town halls, European Studies associations, European Parliament). This paper aims to present this project, disseminate and reflect on the results achieved by it.
Sérgio Neto is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra. He’s also an invited assistant professor at the UC Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He has been working on the (anti)colonial question, especially of the archipelago of Cape Verde, from a comparative perspective with the other Portuguese-speaking territories (S. Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Brazil, India, and Macau). He has also devoted his studies to the First Republic and the First World War, the European issues, and the European perceptions of the younger generations.
Clara Isabel Serrano holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History and International Comparative Studies from the University of Coimbra (UC). She is, currently, a member of the scientific board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra and an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (UC). Her main research areas are the History of Culture and the Idea of Europe and the Portuguese and European history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has participated in national and international conferences and has integrated several committees of scientific meetings. She is the author of several articles published in Portugal and abroad.
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Thursday 27th April, 2023