EYCE Activities

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Title:	Junior Voting as a democratic practice
Description:	Junior Voting aims at experiencing and practising democracy. During classroom teaching, elections are prepared and simulated, and for one month pupils of the seventh grade and higher are involved in the project. JuniorVoting primarily focuses on political education. To achieve the best results, teachers have access to a variety of teaching/study materials dealing with the topics election and democracy. The highlight of the project is a simulated election carried out nation wide and involving schools from all over the country. The Junior election takes place a week before the respective Sunday on which elections take place and is completed online. In schools, the project is based on two main pillars: the teaching and the real election. The BUNDESTAGSWAHL (election of the German parliament) September 2005 (50.000 pupils)
Status:	Under way 01/09/2005
Location:	Berlin, Germany
Countries:	Germany
Key Words:	0.1 - Awareness raising, 2 - Democratic citizenship and participation, 8 - Teacher training
Web Pages:	1 www.juniorvoting.de 2 www.juniorwahl.de
Last Modified:	21/09/2005
Partner:	BUNDESZENTRALE FUER POLITISCHE BILDUNG (Federal Agency for Civic Education) and foundations in Germany , Germany Email: info@juniorwahl.de