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After taking part in the project activities, express your personal feedback also making clear if your knowledge about EU enlargement has been modified and how?
Posted 2006-01-27 11:24:18 quote  print 
livonm


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I think that promote project activities in order to improve young people’s knowledge about EU is so important. From our interviews and with following analysis we know that the knowledge of what is Europe, what implies the EU and which are the consequences in our daily life is so poor and based on false ideas. This is a hot question because EU represents our future and we must comprehend what is happening; therefore the promotion of these projects in the schools is the right solution to improve EU’s knowledge.
We focus our attention on EU enlargement and this make me understand which will be the directions of EU’s policy and which are the criteria to join the Union. I can also face for the first time the organization, the structure, the story of EU; as said I was part of uninformed people too. With the project I can understand and make an idea of what is and what means European Union.
Posted 2006-02-07 14:41:07 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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We had the possibility to study the problem in many ways: we analyzed some constitutional texts, searched for the meaning of the word in the dictionaries, read articles taken from The Economist, analyzed how does the theme relate with the novel The Archivist, interviewed young people and last but not least we participated to the debate about EU.
Analyzing the problem from many points of view is significant because it gives us a more detailed idea to a complex discussion people is generally rather confused about. I enjoyed above all the analysis of Martha Cooley’s novel, because it made me understand how the problem of peace is extremely connected with everybody’s life, and how can it influence people’s mentality.
I think that the aim of the project is to urge young people like me to think about EU as our reality and not as a remote thing. I can say that the purpose was successful, because it made me reflect on my idea of Europe. I think that the activities exhorted us to build our own idea, even if we were helped by the teacher in the analysis. Now I recognize that EU is a very complex problem, but I have the requirements to know it even better.
Posted 2006-02-07 15:29:27 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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In my opinion, the done activites studing the mean and the process of the E.U. are important to give me the possibility to have a more clear and complex idea about it also because I hadn't improved my knowledge and my interest about it if not only with this activity.
My curiosity is improved by reading and analizing the articles and taking part to the conference also because I discover a lot of different aspects which are not presented and discussed by the media (radio and television).
But we had studied the concept of European Union and its features in front of different points of view,in indirect way: for example reading the novel The Archivist, or whacthing a documentary (film) about the WWII and the tragedy of Shoah and the Holocaust of the Jews.
The most amusing and nice activity is to interview young people but it is also important because it reflects the common, superficial and incomplete idea of the people,including mine,about the E.U.
These activities invite me to change opinion and idea to creat new right ones and to encourage me to feel an european citizen .
Posted 2006-02-07 16:51:07 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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I considered this project useful, because I learned many things about EU: how it is organized, how and why it is born, what are its aims...
But thanks to this project I also learned about its problems (for example: the unsuccessfull referendum for the Treaty establishing a Costitution for EU in Holland and France) and contraddictory elements.
The problem of Turkey's entry in EU interested me a lot: we analyzed also common people's opinion, so I could see what are the difficulties for common people to imagine an united Europe.
So I can say that it is important to promote this kind of project. I knew a lot of information that usually we can't have from the media, and I had the possibility of relect on many themes, especially on what "EU citizenship" means for me.
Posted 2006-02-07 17:36:30 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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First I should explain that my personal experience in studying European issues started not recently and dates back to last year, when I was kindly invited to attend to some conferences in Rome and Orvieto related to EU and citizenship. It was then enriched with this year’s projects related to Turkey’s entry and how people imagine EU. I must admit that all these projects and activities are, in my opinion, extremely useful, especially for young people and new generations, as we are.
Last year’s meetings were particularly important for me to become aware that EU exists and it’s not only an abstract word as I thought to be. Avoiding intentionally to tell all the amazing activities I’ve experience, I just want to let everybody know about the great chance we had, to get in touch with boys and girls from different nationalities: they tried to give us a sample of how multi-national EU is.
Considering the “interviews-work” first, I think it was useful for two reasons: first because I became aware that young people are quite not interest in EU and generally lacking of information, secondly I had to study the history of EU and consequently it was a big opportunity for me to either improve my knowledge and be different from my classmates.
Considering the issue we focused most on, Turkish entry in EU, I got in touch with a different culture and studied a State from a unusual point of view. Moreover I had the chance to study how a State could apply for its entry and what the criteria for its entry are.
Eventually I feel more interested and involved in EU matters now and I hope all these projects could be useful for the future of EU as all its expectations are due to us, new generations!

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Posted 2006-02-07 19:19:02 profileprofile pmpriv. message quote  print 
soratom


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I think the project we worked on has to be considered very useful. As a matter of fact, as we could see analysing the answers of the interviews we posed to young people to check their level of knowledge about EU, there is a big lack of information about the issues concerning EU and enlargement. So, I think it is important to promote projects, in the school context, directed at increasing the level of information and awareness of EU, since it is part of the reality we have to cope with. Moreover, only if you know what EU means, in terms of goals, features, problems, policy and so on, you can formulate your personal opinion about the issues concerning it and so develop an active citizenship.
Undoubtedly, my knowledge about EU has been modified: before working on the project, I did not know anything about EU and enlargement. Thanks to the activities we carried out, I understand the history of EU, its goals, its organization, the criteria that allows to enter the Union and, last but not least, the questions connected to the process of enlargement.

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Posted 2006-02-07 20:23:14 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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During the last two school years my classmates and I started a project about Eu. It has been very interesting because it made me aware of an organization I have never considered although it is strictly connected to world’s policies and to our future.
The first aspect we considered has been the concept of peace: its meaning and its frequency in different constitutions. It has been interesting but, in my opinion, not too useful because I didn’t have enough knowledge to be able to connect the project; to be honest: I had no knowledge at all!
This year, though, we studied different aspects as Eu’s history, organization or the issue of enlargement, from various subjects. Especially the English lessons have been interesting in order to build a clear view of today’s perspective. I must admit that I have been relieved to discover, thanks to a wide rage of interviews about the Eu, that disinformation is a common matter.
Thanks to our new knowledge we have been able to create relations between the project we undertook last year and a novel, The Archivist, we read during the summer that sums up many issues related to our work. Thanks to this I created my personal opinion about a problem I could only percept last year: the hitch of responsibility. This isn’t just a matter of conscience, it isn’t just respect towards the other in order not to feel guilty because such a feeling won’t help anybody, especially society. We must have a common project to look at, and we must believe in the values of peace and stability, remembering how precarious they are. But in order to be aware of this, we must have some basis. To conclude I can say that Eu’s organs must do all the possible in order to provide pieces of information to the wider rage of people possible because this has to do with our future.
Posted 2006-02-07 22:05:04 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
baldos


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I think that the project should to be consider useful. As a matter of fact it helps me to modify my knowlwdge about EU and its enlargement. Before taking part into the project I didn't know a lot of things or I had bad knowlwdge of the matter, now the activities made me reflect, grow and make an opinion about all this. During the project I had the possibility to interview young people, to read articles from The Economist, take part to two lectures about themes debated nowadays and last but not least to compare me with other students in my class. Moreover I think that it is more important to promote projects.
Posted 2006-02-07 22:22:39 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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Last year, working on the project "Immaginare la pace" we found out peace is a condition of absence of something and therefore it exists with war.
This year we decided to focus our attention on peace and personal responsibility, also analyzing Martha Cooley’s novel, The Archivist.
I must say the project has been very useful and interesting because I have improved my knowledge about peace, EU, Shoah and not only.
Now I have some information very important to understand better the events that happen today ( I refer especially to European Union and in particular to question of entrance of Turkey in EU).
Before the project my knowledge were fractionated and scarce, but actually I know and so I can discuss and, like I have already said, understand.
Posted 2006-02-07 22:57:09 profileprofile mailemail pmpriv. message quote  print 
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