The Summer Academy: Democracy at School offers training in the field of education for human rights and democratic citizenship to teams of school heads, teachers and representatives of local NGOs and parents’ associations.

The Summer Academy puts CoE recommendations and resources into practice, with training sessions based on CoE manuals.

To encourage dialogue among researchers and practitioners, the EWC annually organizes a series of events in cooperation with European universities and teacher training institutions.

Latest research projects and their key findings related to issues of democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural understanding are introduced. In 2011/12: The International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS).

In partnership with the Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme, the EWC organizes seminars and workshops for teacher trainers, teachers and other educators from Europe and beyond.

The aim is to strengthen the participants’ professional competence, and to increase the awareness of the role of education in the promotion of human rights, democracy and intercultural understanding.