The first full year of the European Parliament Ambassador Schools programme really got underway yesterday afternoon with our first Senior Ambassador training. Each year we kick off the programme with training for Senior Ambassadors (school/college staff) to ensure they know the programme requirements, have ideas about activities to run, how Read more…
Quick posts on social media share ideas for participation, promote your work and help keep your team on track. We’ve said time and again that communication is at the heart of the European Parliament Ambassador Schools (EPAS) programme, but it does bear repeating! The goal of the scheme is to Read more…
You’re not much of an ambassador if you’re not telling people about what you’re doing, so letting your wider school/college community know that you are (or are working towards becoming) a European Parliament Ambassador School is essential for gaining accreditation. The first point of contact for your school/college is your Read more…
Junior Ambassadors are the heart of EPAS. They don’t just participate in activities, they organise and run them for their peers. In our second training for Senior Ambassadors participating in our condensed pilot, we concentrated on how to recruit Junior Ambassadors to help run EPAS. We had students from St Read more…
The UK pilot of the European Ambassador Schools project got underway this afternoon, with our first online training session for the first ever cohort of Senior Ambassadors from the UK. We were joined by EPAS Senior Ambassador, Viki Malcolm, of the King’s Hospital School, Dublin, Ireland. Viki shared some excellent Read more…
De La Salle College in Waterford, Ireland, have created their own website to showcase all the trips, debates and activities they have done as part of gaining EPAS accreditation.