My City Through Time – Exploring our cities through historic and civic education.

BLOCKFREI is one of seven partners developing a two-year project “My City Through Time. Exploring our cities through historic and civic education (MCT)” realized in the framework of ERASMUS + program of the European Union.
The project aims to contribute to the recognition and improvement of youth work and its practices and to strengthen the link between youth work and civic and historic education.
It wants to provide the partner and other organizations working with youth with new skills, competencies, working methods, and materials related to youth work and historic and civic education. At the same time, because of its thematic focus, the project aims to involve young people in a reflection on understanding diversities, the importance of intercultural dialogue, inclusion, and human rights.
The project develops from the idea that the cities we live in are not neutral, but are carriers of values and narratives, and communicate them through elements of its public space, such as monuments, names of streets and squares, and architecture.

By critically exploring their cities through the methods of historic and civic education, the project partners will tackle different relevant topics for today’s youth, such as the rise of radicalization, nationalism, and populism, issues of equal representation, and the spreading of stereotypes and prejudices among young people. Because of this reason,
through the project’s activities and results, young people will become more able to critically approach complex topics related to historical and social changes in the 20th century and better understand the origin and the causes of contemporary challenges, including issues such as memory, identity, representation, inclusion, and democracy.

Documenta – Centre for dealing with the past (Croatia) is a project leader. Next to the BLOCKFREI association, other partners are Artistania e.V. (Germany), United Societies of Balkans (Greece), Associazione Quarantasettezeroquattro (Italy), Pekarna Magdalenske mreže (Slovenia) and EUROM – European Observatory on Memories (Spain).

 

 

The project is funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.