Your first Junior Ambassador Meeting
Activity guides
These activity guides can be printed off and shared with your EPAS team to help them plan events, share what they are doing, and complete your accreditation.
Do you have an activity guide you would like us to create, drop us an email: info@epas.org.uk
Lesson Plans
Further resources, ideas, and inspiration
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Setting up a debate
There is very little to do with the European Parliament, the EU, and the UK’s relations with it that is cut and dried. There is room for discussion and debate on all of it. One of the roles of Junior Ambassadors in European Parliament Ambassador Schools is to engage their peers and wider community in…
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Creating an EPAS webpage on your website
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 website, so highlighting EPAS on…
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Creating an EU InfoPoint
Communication is at the heart of the European Parliament Ambassador Schools (EPAS) scheme. It aims to give young people the tools and knowledge to: Understand how the European Union (EU) and European Parliament affect their daily lives Influence decision-making in the EU and European Parliament Feel connected to people and cultures across Europe Find out…
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Setting up a cinema screening
One of the requirements for gaining European Parliament Ambassador School (EPAS) accreditation is to put on one or more events to expose your school/college community to the diversity of culture with the European Union. One way you might choose to do this is by screening a European film or short. Picking something high quality, interesting…
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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…