THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
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First pan-European non-profit promoting mapping, exchange, learning & innovation in #civic #education bottom-up. Running #NECE, the European network for Civic Education. 👥
How we understand identity and belonging shapes the future of democracy in Europe.
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How we understand identity and belonging shapes the future of democracy in Europe.
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
What makes civic education transformative?
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What makes civic education transformative?
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Young people know what’s at stake, and they’re asking to be taken seriously as co-authors of democracy.
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Young people know what’s at stake, and they’re asking to be taken seriously as co-authors of democracy.
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
How can schools become engines of community change?
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How can schools become engines of community change?
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
🇲🇪 “Towards a European Space for Citizenship Education” brought together educators, policymakers, and civil society from across Europe to discuss how to strengthen democracy through education.
🔗 Read more from our participation in the conference here: thecivics.eu/2025/10/28/s...
🔗 Read more from our participation in the conference here: thecivics.eu/2025/10/28/s...
Shaping the future of democratic education | THE CIVICS Innovation Hub | pan-European NGO
From 14 October 2025, education professionals, civil-society actors, and policy-makers gathered in Bečići (Montenegro) for the international conference “Towards a European Space for Citizenship Educat...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🇲🇪 “Towards a European Space for Citizenship Education” brought together educators, policymakers, and civil society from across Europe to discuss how to strengthen democracy through education.
🔗 Read more from our participation in the conference here: thecivics.eu/2025/10/28/s...
🔗 Read more from our participation in the conference here: thecivics.eu/2025/10/28/s...
Honoured that one of our co-founders, Louisa Slavkova, spoke at #eTwinning2025 on citizenship education & “skills for life.” She reminded us that classrooms are civic infrastructure – where belonging, curiosity & democracy grow.
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Honoured that one of our co-founders, Louisa Slavkova, spoke at #eTwinning2025 on citizenship education & “skills for life.” She reminded us that classrooms are civic infrastructure – where belonging, curiosity & democracy grow.
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
🎉 A milestone for civic education in Brazil!
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🎉 A milestone for civic education in Brazil!
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
Join us at the #NECECampus with Alexandra Stef to explore how communities turn care into action through shared fundraising, local grantmaking, and simple ways to keep people involved. Real stories from Romania and across Europe show how lasting change begins close to home.
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Join us at the #NECECampus with Alexandra Stef to explore how communities turn care into action through shared fundraising, local grantmaking, and simple ways to keep people involved. Real stories from Romania and across Europe show how lasting change begins close to home.
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
💭 “You can’t cultivate wellbeing in children if the adults are depleted.”
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
💭 “You can’t cultivate wellbeing in children if the adults are depleted.”
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Across the world, young people face huge questions about the future – from climate anxiety to conflict and wellbeing.
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Across the world, young people face huge questions about the future – from climate anxiety to conflict and wellbeing.
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
Join our next NECE Campus session to explore HistoriCall – a digital toolbox by the House of European History that reimagines Europe’s story through interactive, student-centred learning.
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join our next NECE Campus session to explore HistoriCall – a digital toolbox by the House of European History that reimagines Europe’s story through interactive, student-centred learning.
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
In @nytimes.com, our Louisa Slavkova reminds that civic education isn’t a side project — it’s the work that keeps democracy functional.
Politics may fill the airwaves, but civic understanding is thinning. The task now is to rebuild the infrastructures of how we learn to live together.
rb.gy/xlepp1
Politics may fill the airwaves, but civic understanding is thinning. The task now is to rebuild the infrastructures of how we learn to live together.
rb.gy/xlepp1
Civics Education Struggles, Even as Government and Politics Saturate Daily Life
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October 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
In @nytimes.com, our Louisa Slavkova reminds that civic education isn’t a side project — it’s the work that keeps democracy functional.
Politics may fill the airwaves, but civic understanding is thinning. The task now is to rebuild the infrastructures of how we learn to live together.
rb.gy/xlepp1
Politics may fill the airwaves, but civic understanding is thinning. The task now is to rebuild the infrastructures of how we learn to live together.
rb.gy/xlepp1
🌱 Can hope drive social change?
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🌱 Can hope drive social change?
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
🌍 At this year's NECE Festival: HOPE in Oslo, RedeNEC, CENESA & THE CIVICS, as co-creator of NECE signed a joint declaration uniting civic educators across continents.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🌍 At this year's NECE Festival: HOPE in Oslo, RedeNEC, CENESA & THE CIVICS, as co-creator of NECE signed a joint declaration uniting civic educators across continents.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
“We are citizens by nature.”
In this NECE Festival: HOPE clip, Jon Alexander (CITIZENS) shares why civic education must trust people and give them real decisions. Watch and share: youtu.be/ldcE8Csmz90 #CivicEducation #Participation
In this NECE Festival: HOPE clip, Jon Alexander (CITIZENS) shares why civic education must trust people and give them real decisions. Watch and share: youtu.be/ldcE8Csmz90 #CivicEducation #Participation
"We are citizens by nature" - Jon Alexander at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE
YouTube video by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
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September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“We are citizens by nature.”
In this NECE Festival: HOPE clip, Jon Alexander (CITIZENS) shares why civic education must trust people and give them real decisions. Watch and share: youtu.be/ldcE8Csmz90 #CivicEducation #Participation
In this NECE Festival: HOPE clip, Jon Alexander (CITIZENS) shares why civic education must trust people and give them real decisions. Watch and share: youtu.be/ldcE8Csmz90 #CivicEducation #Participation
Can civic-minded companies boost both productivity and employee satisfaction?
🎥Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....
🎥Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....
CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK - Testimonial: Manuel Vulchev
YouTube video by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
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September 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Can civic-minded companies boost both productivity and employee satisfaction?
🎥Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....
🎥Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....
At NECE Festival: HOPE, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann showed how regenerative economics can reshape the way we teach and learn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...
Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann: Regenerative Economics for the Future | NECE Festival 2025
YouTube video by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
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September 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
At NECE Festival: HOPE, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann showed how regenerative economics can reshape the way we teach and learn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...
🌍 New call for projects: Civic Innovation Fund supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung!
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
September 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🌍 New call for projects: Civic Innovation Fund supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung!
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
💡 What happens when ordinary citizens are trusted to help shape a nation’s future?
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
💡 What happens when ordinary citizens are trusted to help shape a nation’s future?
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
We’re pleased to share that our capacity-building programme for employees in the corporate sector will continue, thanks to renewed funding. With the relaunch of our programme ReLEAD. Learn more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel....
September 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We’re pleased to share that our capacity-building programme for employees in the corporate sector will continue, thanks to renewed funding. With the relaunch of our programme ReLEAD. Learn more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel....
“Empathy can be trained and spread like a social contagion.”
Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...
Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...
Training Empathy as a Civic Skill – Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE
YouTube video by THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
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September 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Empathy can be trained and spread like a social contagion.”
Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...
Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...
Civic education can inspire when it feels like play. Our next #NECECampus with Tracy Saad of Commence Games explores how game-based learning opens doors to bias-free, participatory civic life. Join us here: t.ly/gA3nR
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Civic education can inspire when it feels like play. Our next #NECECampus with Tracy Saad of Commence Games explores how game-based learning opens doors to bias-free, participatory civic life. Join us here: t.ly/gA3nR
Today on #InternationalDayofDemocracy we celebrate participation, dialogue & civic agency. At THE CIVICS, we support intergenerational participation, champion civic ed & build networks that strengthen democratic resilience - believing that democracy must be lived, learned & practiced every day.
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today on #InternationalDayofDemocracy we celebrate participation, dialogue & civic agency. At THE CIVICS, we support intergenerational participation, champion civic ed & build networks that strengthen democratic resilience - believing that democracy must be lived, learned & practiced every day.
🤔 If fear is the fuel of populism, could hope be its antidote?
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🤔 If fear is the fuel of populism, could hope be its antidote?
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
The third issue of NECE Magazine is out! Learn about HOPE …as a civic skill: training imaginations, rebuilding trust, turning resignation into action. Read the full issue here: magazine.nece.eu/hope/
NECE Magazine HOPE
magazine.nece.eu
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The third issue of NECE Magazine is out! Learn about HOPE …as a civic skill: training imaginations, rebuilding trust, turning resignation into action. Read the full issue here: magazine.nece.eu/hope/