EDUC8 Events

EDUC8 consortium members came together to kick-off the project on 10 January 2020 in Brussels. The partners from across Europe discussed management of the project, selection of themes and production cycles for the EDUC8 products.

EDUC8 Steering Committee convened on 09 March 2020 to discuss general structure of the deep and shallow modules and fine tune details regarding their production and presentation in different platforms. The meeting took place at Beyond the Horizon ISSG premises at Davincilaan 1, 1930 Zaventem, BELGIUM.

EDUC8 Steering Committee convened online on 23 June 2020 to discuss general progress in the project and to define a strategy to communicate it and its results to the general public, teachers, practitioners and likes.  The project results thus far were evaluated in terms of content and production quality, and further planning has been detailed for especially the translation of the products into Dutch and French.

EDUC8 Steering Committee convened online on 29 September 2020 to discuss general progress in the project and to planify EDUC8 activities in January including Multistakeholder Cooperation Workshop and Internal Workshop. Inter alia, methodology regarding the evaluation of the project results and planification of implementation in face of COVID-19 was discussed.

EDUC8 Consortium convened online on 19 January 2021 in the Project Board format to discuss general progress in the project and to detail implementation or the test run phase. Three Project Board Members, University of Ljubljana, University of Aristoteles of Thessaloniki, and Volos Academy were voted to become Steering Committee members.

EDUC8 Steering Committee convened online on 28 April 2021 to discuss general progress in the project and to planify incoming implementation in Belgium, Slovenia, Finland and Greece. Inter alia, how to increase the visual representation of the print material, general structure about the factsheets and infographics, Consortium participation to EUARE2021 and exploitation of the project results beyond EU borders was discussed.

EDUC8 Steering Committee convened online on 30 August 2021 to discuss general progress in the project and to evaluate implementation in Belgium alongside planifying incoming implementation in Belgium, Slovenia, Finland and Greece. Inter alia, an action plan has been drafted to engage key stakeholders in order to exploit project results.

EuARe 2021 was held between August 30- September 2 in, Germany. The panels were held both on-site in Münster and online. Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Beyond the Horizon and Catholic University of Leuven ( joined the panel “EDUC8 Project: Religious education against violence, radicalization and polarization” on 1 Sep 2021 to discuss various aspects of the project. Click here for details.

A teacher training seminar was conducted in St. Stanislaus Institution in Ljubljana on the 13th of October that was attended by a number of teachers from both primary and secondary schools selected to run the test. A broader presentation of the project and its achievements was the introduction within an intensive workshop session where teachers got acquainted with the shallow and deep modules. Click here for details. 

ETF organized a study day that gives attention to these developments and proposed EDUC8 project results as optimum educational material in this direction. The emphasis was on the fact that EDUC8 offers concrete tools to deal with the three challenges mentioned, with special attention to the problems of polarization and (religiously inspired) violence. Click here for details.