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NGO visit

C5 and the EUROPE-IDEA e-book treat the educational role of civil-society organisations as part of democratic citizenship. This visit is not political propaganda; young people listen to the organisation’s educational work and write a half-page cooperation idea.

40 minutes · Field / institutional visit

Materials

  • A two-question card

Steps

  1. 1

    Listen to what the organisation does in education.

  2. 2

    Young people ask two questions.

  3. 3

    Write a half-page cooperation idea for the club or the class.

Inclusion

One party or one view is not enough. Think of more than one kind of organisation.

At the end of the session

The half-page draft goes into the monitoring file.

Home task

The educational purpose of the organisation that was visited is told at home in one sentence. It is stated that the organisation is not a vehicle for political propaganda.

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