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Active Citizens is a global programme of British Council in the field of intercultural dialogue and education for active citizenship.
The programme aims at creating a network of active citizens who acknowledge their potential and responsibly engage themselves in the development of their communities, both locally and internationally. Through this program we seek to bring to Romania the experience of the United Kingdom and of other states in the field of active citizenship.
By “active citizenship” we understand that the members of a society are actively involved in the life of their community and feel the responsibility of involving themselves in the problems that affect it.
Active Citizens was launched in 2009 in the United Kingdom and in eight regions from Africa and Asia.
In 2010, the program started in twenty other countries from northern, central and south-eastern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Macedonia and Israel).
The beneficiaries of our program are community leaders. In order to reach them, British Council works in partnership with organisations of the civil society, credible at both national and local level, which already have expertise in working at grassroots level with these communities.
The participants will acquire:
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Understanding of the local culture and of their own identity |
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Deeper knowledge of their communities |
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General knowledge of project management for small scale, community based projects |
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Sense of responsibility towards sustainable global development |
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Respect for diversity and the skills to efficiently manage the relations with people from diverse cultural environments |
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Access to international networks |
The program has three main components:
Trainings on the topic of active citizenship informing the participants about: identity, culture, intercultural dialogue, local and global active citizenship, project management, lobby and advocacy for community projects.
Social Action Projects that will be conceived and implemented by the participants to the trainings, based on the information received during the training sessions. The results of the projects will generate a positive impact on the communities, by addressing concrete and realistically identified needs.
International Exchanges and Networking that will offer the participants the opportunity to learn from the experience of similar communities in other countries and to develop projects together.
The program is based on a multi tier cascade business model delivered at community level, through three different types of training programs.
British Council prepares 2 master facilitators in the context of an international training
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They deliver a training to other facilitators at national level
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The facilitators deliver local trainings for leaders of different communities
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The community leaders forward the information gathered during the trainings to the members of their communities
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The communities which are willing design and implement social action projects in order to address various needs of their communities
International networking events for the community leaders
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Exchanges with communities from the United Kingdom for the partner organisations |
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Parallel projects in the country and in the United Kingdom and connecting the beneficiaries with participants from other states |
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On-line platforms for all the project participants |
In 2010-2011 British Council Romania is implementing the project Active Citizens for two groups of beneficiaries (“communities”):
For further information please contact Alina Constantinescu, Project Manager at alina.constantinescu@britishcouncil.ro
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