Citizen education

Research, advocacy and education

11. 04. 2012., Zagreb - Clanovi nestranacke udruge Gong fotografirani u prostorijama udruge na Trgu bana Jelacica. GONG je nestranacka udruga gradjana utemeljena 1997. radi poticanja gradjana na aktivnije sudjelovanje u politickim procesima. Duje Prkut, Nives Miosic, Korana Gacic Fuk, Tina Novak, Tanja Kapusta, Srdjan Novak, Albert Jedrejic, Jelena Berkovic, Danela Zagar, Natalia Mirkovic, Vanja Skoric, Dragan Zelic, Marina Skrabalo, Tamara Capeta, Berto Salaj, Robert Maracic, Iva Pinjusic. Photo: Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL

Every GONGs program consists of activities enforced by one of three methods, ensuring quality and applicability of the results. It is a somewhat cyclical process – research is conducted on a certain topic so the results could serve as a basis for advocating change. The education of citizens and advocating for change then follows. You can read more…

Pilot educational program “Civic Literacy”

Zagreb, 12.04.2013 - (Arhivska fotografija- Ilustracija) Veæina uèitelja, njih 85 posto, vrlo dobro su ocijenili dosadanji program struènog usavravanja, no predlau veæu zastupljenost rada s darovitim uèenicima i s onima koji imaju tekoæe u razvoju, kao i usavravanje u aktivnom uèenju i pouèavanju, primjeni novih tehnologija nastavi, ocjenjivanju i mentorstvu te u uèinkovitoj izradi plana osobnog profesionalnog razvoja. foto FaH /Lana SLIVAR DOMINIÆ/ ik

Formal educational system does not provide fundamental knowledge of political literacy. Thereby GONG launched a pilot educational program “Civic Literacy” within EDUcentre. Program included 27 high school teachers that were trained through three program modules (political, media and the EU literacy) on how to communicate idea of active citizenship to their students and, actually, how…

Promoting voluntarism and national council for development of voluntarism

epa03644359 Peter Leonardy, initiator of the so-called 'Zeitgeist Forum' examines the large hands of a clock made around 1900 by the company Benedikt Schneider and sons in Karlsruhe, Germany, 29 March 2013.During the night of the 30 March 2013 the time is switched to summer time. Clocks will 'spring forward' by one hour EPA/ULI DECK

International Volunteer Day, December 5, was established by the UN in 1985 and, since than, all over the world governments, the UN and civil society organizations organize activities celebrating the International Volunteer Day and promoting voluntarism on the local, national and international level. International Volunteer Day, December 5, was established by the UN in 1985…

PROJECT REPORTS

epa03621509 Flags are seen in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 13 March 2013. The European Parliament rejected the compromise of EU governments for the financial planning of the European Union until 2020. EPA/PATRICK SEEGER

Please find project‘s reports here: Pilot project season 2006/2007Theworkshops were conductedin 143 high schools in the Republic of Croatia. 601 workshops were held during the second term, from 21 February to 7 May 2007. Twenty specially educated trainers conducted the workshops with more than 16,000 participating high school seniors.Report for 2006/2007 (111 KB) Project season 2007/2008…