This manual for upper secondary level focuses on key competences that enable young people to participate in democratic decision making and to meet the challenges of a dynamic pluralist society.

This manual offers the users the chance to select and to try out different traditions and approaches to Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education.

Growing up in democracy is addressed to teachers who want to integrate Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) and Human Rights Education (HRE) in their daily subject teaching.

The new handbook for teachers "Excursion to the past - teaching for the future", published by The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), emphasises the link between teaching about the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, and teaching about human rights and democracy.

The Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education which was developed over a period of several years with wide consultations and is non-binding - will be an important reference point for all of Europe and will be used as a basis for the Council of Europe’s future work in this field in the coming years.