Summer Academy 2010 - Feedback from Participants

The Summer Academy 2010 ’Democracy at School’  took place in Warsaw and Sulejówek, Poland, on July 10-17. The Summer Academy was organized by the Ministry of National Education, Poland, the Centre for Education Development, Poland, The Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre,

The Academy aimed at training educators to incorporate the principles of human rights and democracy into their daily work. It put the Council of Europe’s (CoE) education policy into practice through trainings and workshops based on CoE recommendations and publications, in particular the manuals Democratic School Governance and How all teachers can support citizenship and human rights education: A framework for the development of competences.



Eleven teams from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine took part in the training, the total number of participants being 31. Each team consisted of a school head, a teacher and a NGO or parents representative coming from the same school/local community.

At the end of the Summer Academy, all participants anonymously filled out an evaluation form. Their answers and comments show a very high degree of satisfaction, as reflected in the two bar charts below. Importantly, 71% of the participants perceived the training as very relevant for their own practice, while 29% perceived it as relevant and no one perceived it to be not relevant.  

Click here, to read a summery of participants feedback.

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