The Summer Academy: Democracy at School 2011, takes place 9-16 July in Warsaw, Poland.

The Summer Academy offers training for teams of head teachers, teachers and NGO/parents’ representatives in the field of education for human rights and democratic citizenship. It is organized in cooperation between the Polish Ministry of National Education, Polish Centre for Education Development, Council of Europe and the EWC.

The Summer Academy was successfully held for the first time in July 2010.

The participants will learn to implement whole school strategies for integrating education for democratic citizenship and human rights (EDC/HRE) in their practice and culture in the classroom, school and community. The academy also offers an opportunity to share and exchange experiences and good practices with participants from other countries.

The Summer Academy is open for teams (head teacher, teacher and NGO/parents’ representative) from the same school/local community from the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Finland, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.

The training will be in Russian and English with simultaneous translation.