Four new erasmus projects approved for ENAC and the Canossian Schools
Great news for the Canossian network: four new European projects have been approved, which over the next three years will involve hundreds of students and dozens of teachers in learning paths focused on European citizenship, human rights and sustainability.
Adding to this is the confirmation of the usual KA1 mobility activity, which will bring more than 250 mobility opportunities next year. We are also awaiting the results of the KA1 mobility programme for the Canossian Institute in Rovato.
An important result, confirming the Canossian network’s ability to team up with universities, schools and institutions across Europe, and to translate international cooperation into concrete experiences for students and teachers.
Here is an overview of the approved projects.
EUchallenge – Understanding Europe to Become Its Protagonists
Jean Monnet Network · ENAC partner
EUchallenge is a Jean Monnet Network bringing together six schools/VET institutions from Italy, Greece, Portugal and Romania, together with the University of Cagliari (coordinator) and ENAC as a partner. The goal is to train 250 teachers and 2,000 students on EU geopolitics, foreign policy, defence, Brexit and great-power relations.
The project relies on innovative and engaging methodologies: training modules featuring video-interviews with EU policymakers, co-teaching through COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning), Model UN-style simulations of European Parliament decisions, and participatory co-design labs. The highlight will be the two “EUchallenge JAM” mobility weeks, during which students will present their policy proposals directly in Brussels, at the EU institutions.
A project built on the experience of previous Jean Monnet Networks, aiming to respond very concretely to the problem of low civic participation and euroscepticism among young people.
H.E.R.O. – Human Rights Education for Responsible Europeans
Jean Monnet Project – Canossa Campus di Brescia
The H.E.R.O. project, promoted by the Canossa Campus of Brescia, introduces a structured, vertical European learning pathway, integrated into Civic Education from the second to the fifth year of upper secondary school.
Grounded in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the Treaty on European Union, H.E.R.O. adopts a human-rights-based approach, with human dignity and democracy as its unifying thread. Over three years it will involve approximately 430 students across 24 classes, for a total of 240 hours of structured learning, aiming to strengthen critical thinking, awareness of rights and duties, and intercultural dialogue.
EU-GLIMPSE – A Glimpse of Europe Starting from Middle School
Jean Monnet Project – Istituto Canossiano “Annunciata Cosi” di Rovato
The school in Rovato brings Europe into lower secondary education too.
EU-GLIMPSE builds a progressive three-year pathway (grades 1–3, ages 11–14), fully integrated into Civic Education, designed for a fairly homogeneous socio-cultural context where opportunities to engage with European diversity are still limited.
Each class follows a Learning Unit dedicated to the European Union, understood not only as an institutional system but as a community built on shared values, rights and responsibilities. The project will involve around 180 students and 6 teachers, including a group of “ambassador teachers” responsible for planning and ensuring the pathway’s sustainability over time.
GreenAgro4Edu – Sustainability Enters Agricultural Training
KA2 – ENAC partner
With GreenAgro4Edu the focus expands to vocational training and sustainability. The project aims to strengthen VET teachers’ ability to teach and assess agroecology using the European GreenComp framework, with a practical approach connected to labour-market needs.
Planned activities include train-the-trainer events, the co-creation of teaching materials and assessment rubrics, and two 10-day Field Labs for students, in Nordic and Mediterranean settings. The final goal is to provide partners with an open, reusable resource package, recognised by employers as evidence of sustainability competences.
Four projects, four different ways of bringing Europe to our students: from geopolitics to human rights, from middle school to vocational training. The Canossiane network keeps growing, together with Europe.