The Belgien newspaper La Libre Belgique published an opinion piece by Susanne Zels and Sophie Pornschlegel titled Why Europe should invest in common citizenship education: “More than 50% of European citizens do not participate in European elections and many do not understand how the institutions work. How can we strengthen our common values, which
“D(e)F: You have launched the initiative Values Unite, a campaign that advocates for the creation of a European Agency for Citizenship Education. What’s that about? Susanne Zels: Our goal is to strengthen European values and thereby social and European cohesion. In the past years, we have seen multiple EU member states violating European values and most
The German newspaper Die Zeit published an opinion piece by Susanne Zels and Sophie Pornschlegel titled Fighting for more cohesion! Why we need a European Agency for Citizenship Education: “While European leaders focus on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the critical state of the European community of values goes unnoticed. Numerous EU
Susanne Zels and Sophie Pornschlegel founded the initiative Values Unite in June 2020 with the support from JoinPolitics in order to advocate for a European Agency for Citizenship Education (EACE). Susanne developed the idea for the EACE at Polis180, a grassroots think-tank for foreign and European affairs, based in Berlin. This is where she