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At the School of OpenCohesion: Bulgarian Schools all ready for Lesson 1!
Today is another important day for the international pilot project At the School of OpenCohesion (ASOC): Lesson 1 is starting in Bulgaria!
For the occasion, the ASOC team flew to Sofia to meet the project’s Managing Authority – Central Coordination Unit at the Council of Ministers – and the representatives of the District Information Points (DIPs) on European Funds, which in Bulgaria will act as territorial reference and direct contact with the 9 participating schools.
In the meeting, the educational contents of Lesson 1 were deepened: Cohesion Policy in Europe, Civic Monitoring, Open Data, Research methods through the collection of secondary data, In-Class Exercises (Data Expedition and Research Dossier).
The ASOC team took also the chance to tell the stories related to several civic monitoring best practices implemented by Italian high-schools in the previous editions of the project, thus to highlight once again the extraordinary civic value of the ASOC educational path for the growth of active and aware citizens.
The participants also discussed about further project-related topics: the evaluation criteria for the research works to be carried out by the schools, the organization strategy of public events related to the project, the involvement and engagement of the local communities.
Afterwards, the ASOC team was invited to visit the offices of the Sofia District Information Point, which conducts relevant dissemination and information activities on ESIF aimed at citizens, stakeholders and schools.
The first step that the schools will face will be the choice of the projects to be monitored on their territories: they will go through this using as the main source of information www.eufunds.bg, the national information web portal on European Structural and Investment Funds. Already starting tomorrow, the DIPs will take steps to transfer the notions of Lesson 1 to teachers and students of Bulgarian schools, so as to complete the steps provided for the lesson and fill in the related report within the established deadline, approximately around to February 10th.
So, good luck to the teachers and students of ASOC Bulgaria!
