Programme

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

The Examen Europaeum is the first all-European educational project with a comprehensive European dimension. It aims to create a supranational European consciousness of common cultural interests and thus bring about those spiritual links that are important for an improvement of relations among the nations of Europe and above all among their citizens.

The main objective is to train anyone interested in the European idea, especially in the fields of education, further education, civil service and the European economy, whose cultural understanding should go beyond a mere knowledge of the "technical" facts relating to the European Union.

By providing common knowledge of the background of European history and thus an understanding of the aims of the European Union, the Union and the European idea will be strengthened. So the project will contribute towards stabilising the European idea in the consciousness of the union's citizens - by recognising mutual history, prejudices, value judgements, common opportunities and risks.

Themes

The project is to develop four key themes related to a common European culture and European integration. The following themes will achieve this purpose:

· European Union
structure, executive bodies and present aims of the Union - visions for further development - integration within the European Union - the rights and duties of citizens of the union.

· History of the European Idea
from the Roman imperial idea via medieval and modern visions to the E.U. Different ways of European nations leading to the E.U. stereotyped ideas concerning European nations. Vision of a "Europe 2020".

· European Literature and Culture
the great European currents in literary, art and culture histories and their all-European interaction.

· European Linguistic Stock
Greek, Latin and the other Indo-European languages as a spiritual connection of the European nations, their common grounds and differences.

Sharing the ideas

These courses of pan-European content are ultimately to be propagated across Europe. To gain the widest possible dissemination these courses of instruction will not only be offered in the partner states but when possible in the entire European Union and the countries associated to it.

The Examen Europaeum will meet these aims by compiling programmes, classes, seminars and workshops using class meetings, the Internet and a variety of ICT learning methods.

A certificate will be awarded for the completion of a required number of courses. The courses themselves have their own integral examinations.