Center for Educational Initiatives

The proposed project is addressed to children, including those with movement disorders, aiming to palliate the emotional burden and help them cope in case of a serious natural hazard (primarily seismic and secondary volcanic) by raising awareness, improving knowledge on earthquakes and simultaneously, educating relative groups (teachers, parents etc.) on the best practices and state of the art responses.
The objectives of the project are:
• to identify, share and implement best practices and methodologies gained from previous EU projects and partners activities
• to study and analyse the needs in each participating country 
• to develop and realize innovative initiatives and actions aiming to raise awareness and increase knowledge of pupils on earthquake and volcanic hazards, including those with movement disorders
• to train teachers, parents or other relative groups to be able to contribute to children palliation in case of seismic hazard 
• to constantly evaluate actions and outcomes of the project
• to disseminate and share project’s results and outcomes to potential beneficiaries and broader audience on a constant base.

Project consorcium:

University of Crete-Natural History Museum of Crete, Greece - coordinator
Natural History Museum of Lesvos Petrified Forest, Greece
Centro Studi e Formazione Villa Montesca, Italy
Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation, Greece
Centre for Educational Initiatives, Bulgaria
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Italy
Association pour la gestion de la Réserve Naturelle Geologique de Haute Provence, France

The project has the following goals:

1.    To identify the definitions of the “national” and the “civic” as practical orientations of self-experience and social action;
2.    To identify the interdependences and tensions between the practically effective definitions of the “national” and the “civic”;
3.    To measure the “strengths” of institutions and non-institutionalized groups in defining the “national” and the “civic,” and correlating them;
4.    To map the possible points of contact between “citizenry” and “nation,” i.e., the possible ways out of the separation of discourses and hence, out of the contradiction between the idea of individual autonomy and the idea of sharedness