Democracy Project

This project will focus on democracy in schools. During the first part of the project we will focus on researching and documenting (film) the democratic processes in 3 or 4 Irish schools: Scariff Community College, Scariff Youthreach, Woodford Mercy College, the maybe the ALFA Project (if they can start up again next year) and in 2 schools in Rome.

This research will be shared between the two countries, the documentaries will be shown and each group will visit each others schools. Comparisons will be made and added to the research. We will explore the strong and weak points of each system that has been researched and come up with action points for improvement, if this is needed.

Meeting with our italians to prepare the Youth Democracy Project

In the second part meetings between teachers and the democracy group will be organised and together we will work on a common understanding and come up with ideas for good practise. Also peer education workshops will be organised where the democracy group will transfer the skills they learned during the project.
One last evaluation meeting will be organised where the entire project is going to be evaluated and the dissemination process will be prepared.