About the Project

European Culture: A Contribution for a New Narrative of Europe, is the title of a cultural and educational Jean Monnet project that seeks to address a specific problem: the virtual absence of modern European culture in the school curricula at non-university levels of education in the region of Galicia.

In order to build a “Europe of values”, with freedom and human dignity as original benchmarks, it is necessary to introduce conceptual, procedural and attitudinal contents on European culture among the next generations.

To achieve this, we have designed four teaching activities targeted to non-university teaching staff in training, three research activities: two educational ones and one focused on cultural history, nine events which cover one of the three objectives set and twenty-two deliverables with their corresponding lesson plans for Primary and Secondary education.

With this project, we would like to contribute to the debate on the need to promote a new narrative of Europe which, without forgetting the importance of shared economic and geopolitical interests, will highlight the cultural elements that have been shaping the spirit of European men and women, conferring a differentiated identity throughout history. Europe doubtlessly has a past, but it must also be present and future. Thus, we focus our efforts on the new generations at school that will be called upon to lead the times to come.

The introduction of ten lesson plans in non-university curricula is our first contribution. In this case, we strongly believe the process is as important as the result, if not more. In fact, we want to involve the educational community in the broadest sense: students, teaching staff, regional educational authorities and grandparents.