Training
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Take part in a pan-European event for educators!
Are you a teacher in a secondary school or a non-formal educator? Would you like to connect with educators from around the EU, learn from each other and exchange best practices to bring Europe closer to young people? If the answer is yes, you can apply to participate in an event for educators, organised in…
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European Parliament’s Youth Hub launches
Whether you’re a young person looking to share ideas and make friends or a teacher looking to organise a school trip – the European Parliament’s Youth Hub is the perfect place to start your European adventure! From international events to online debates, the Youth Hub is the home of the European Parliament’s youth offer – to connect,…
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Recruiting and training Junior Ambassadors
Junior Ambassadors are the engine of EPAS: they decide on activities, run them and share the evidence. As far as possible, Junior Ambassadors should decide the direction of your EPAS activities and run them. Recruiting Junior Ambassadors and explaining their role is the first step Senior Ambassadors should take. These resources should help you to…
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Gaining accreditation
The primary focus of EPAS is increasing young people’s leadership and democratic engagement; where this happens, the European Parliament accredits students, staff and institutions as European Parliament Ambassadors. In our final training for Senior Ambassadors, we looked at how the accreditation and assessment process works and heard from Channing School about how they gained accreditation…
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Getting help to run EPAS
All initiatives in schools/colleges need a champion, and the Senior Ambassador is that, but they shouldn’t be doing all the work. At it’s heart EPAS needs to be student-led. In our second Senior Ambassador training of the European Parliament Ambassador School (EPAS) programme we looked at the split in roles between Senior and Junior Ambassadors,…
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2021/22 EPAS journey starts today
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 to recruit Junior Ambassadors (students/learners),…
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How to teach about the EU – CPD
In spite of – or in many cases because of – the UK leaving the EU, many students are eager to learn more about it. They understand that their lives will still be deeply affected by our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner. So can this be used as a vehicle to encourage more and…
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First steps to EPAS accreditation
Our pilot year of European Parliament Ambassador Schools (EPAS) in the UK is now well underway and we are delighted to have our first cohort of schools and colleges working towards accreditation: Channing School The Cherwell School Dover College Devonport High School for Girls Dr Challoner’s Grammar School La Retraite RC Girls’ School Stroud High…
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Gaining accreditation – 3rd Senior Ambassador Training
In this third and final training session we went through how evidence is collected for EPAS accreditation. We heard from Dervilla Casey of Summerhill College in Sligo, Ireland, about how they gained accreditation. Watch the training session Key learning The way EPAS accreditation works in Ireland is somewhat different to how we’ll be running it…
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Recruiting Junior Ambassadors – 2nd Senior Ambassador Training
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 Mary’s College, in Naas, Ireland,…
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Ideas and opportunities from Brussels
THE FUTURE OF EUROPE IS IN YOUR HANDS! How can young people shape the future of Europe? Europe Day (9 May) reminds us of what we can achieve when we work together. This year, rather than looking back, we will look forward with the Conference on the Future of Europe . With this in mind,…
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First (ever) UK Senior Ambassador Training
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 advice and suggestions from her…