THE CIVICS Innovation Hub
@thecivics.bsky.social
First pan-European non-profit promoting mapping, exchange, learning & innovation in #civic #education bottom-up. Running #NECE, the European network for Civic Education. 👥
When young people learn how money shapes institutions, they better understand their choices – and those affecting their communities.
Jana Kovaľová, Milan Petrovic and Nina von Gayl share how financial literacy is evolving from a personal skill into a driver of civic power.
Read more: t.ly/j3htd
Jana Kovaľová, Milan Petrovic and Nina von Gayl share how financial literacy is evolving from a personal skill into a driver of civic power.
Read more: t.ly/j3htd
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When young people learn how money shapes institutions, they better understand their choices – and those affecting their communities.
Jana Kovaľová, Milan Petrovic and Nina von Gayl share how financial literacy is evolving from a personal skill into a driver of civic power.
Read more: t.ly/j3htd
Jana Kovaľová, Milan Petrovic and Nina von Gayl share how financial literacy is evolving from a personal skill into a driver of civic power.
Read more: t.ly/j3htd
This NECE Magazine interview with @jbrandsberg.bsky.social and Michelle Blanchet shows why economics education needs updating. Students are ready for a curriculum that reflects interdependence, care, and ecological limits.
If you work in education or policy, read and pass it on: t.ly/swgmf
If you work in education or policy, read and pass it on: t.ly/swgmf
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This NECE Magazine interview with @jbrandsberg.bsky.social and Michelle Blanchet shows why economics education needs updating. Students are ready for a curriculum that reflects interdependence, care, and ecological limits.
If you work in education or policy, read and pass it on: t.ly/swgmf
If you work in education or policy, read and pass it on: t.ly/swgmf
⏳ One week to go!
NECE Campus Webinar: Transformative experiences in civic education
📅 Tue, 25 Nov | 14:00–15:00 CET
Join educators Andrew Peterson, Fernande Raine, Juan Luis Fuentes, João Tavares, and Susan Rivers to explore what drives real civic learning.
🔗 Register: t.ly/XW0w5
NECE Campus Webinar: Transformative experiences in civic education
📅 Tue, 25 Nov | 14:00–15:00 CET
Join educators Andrew Peterson, Fernande Raine, Juan Luis Fuentes, João Tavares, and Susan Rivers to explore what drives real civic learning.
🔗 Register: t.ly/XW0w5
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
⏳ One week to go!
NECE Campus Webinar: Transformative experiences in civic education
📅 Tue, 25 Nov | 14:00–15:00 CET
Join educators Andrew Peterson, Fernande Raine, Juan Luis Fuentes, João Tavares, and Susan Rivers to explore what drives real civic learning.
🔗 Register: t.ly/XW0w5
NECE Campus Webinar: Transformative experiences in civic education
📅 Tue, 25 Nov | 14:00–15:00 CET
Join educators Andrew Peterson, Fernande Raine, Juan Luis Fuentes, João Tavares, and Susan Rivers to explore what drives real civic learning.
🔗 Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Democracy isn’t inherited – it’s rebuilt, together, every day.
Gauri van Gulik from the Better Politics Fund shares how hope becomes a political force through courage & collective action.
💭 Read her interview in NECE Magazine: HOPE: t.ly/6WYH3
Gauri van Gulik from the Better Politics Fund shares how hope becomes a political force through courage & collective action.
💭 Read her interview in NECE Magazine: HOPE: t.ly/6WYH3
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Democracy isn’t inherited – it’s rebuilt, together, every day.
Gauri van Gulik from the Better Politics Fund shares how hope becomes a political force through courage & collective action.
💭 Read her interview in NECE Magazine: HOPE: t.ly/6WYH3
Gauri van Gulik from the Better Politics Fund shares how hope becomes a political force through courage & collective action.
💭 Read her interview in NECE Magazine: HOPE: t.ly/6WYH3
How we understand identity and belonging shapes the future of democracy in Europe.
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How we understand identity and belonging shapes the future of democracy in Europe.
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
At the We-ID Conference in Berlin, we explored how migration, demographic change, and trust intersect and what it takes to build shared ground in polarised times.
🔗 Read more here: thecivics.eu/2025/11/07/m...
What makes civic education transformative?
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What makes civic education transformative?
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Join us for a NECE Campus session on transformative experiences in civic education: how they emerge, why they matter, and how we can enable them.
With examples from Brazil’s Rede Nacional de Educação Cidadã and The History Co:Lab.
Register: t.ly/XW0w5
Young people know what’s at stake, and they’re asking to be taken seriously as co-authors of democracy.
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Young people know what’s at stake, and they’re asking to be taken seriously as co-authors of democracy.
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
2,000+ young Europeans called for climate and social justice, fair housing & decent work, showing a steady demand to be included.
Full article by Alessandra Cardaci in NECE Magazine: t.ly/RZkQ1
How can schools become engines of community change?
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How can schools become engines of community change?
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
Join us for a #NECECampus session with Dagmar Peřinová (JINAG) on Improve Your School – a participatory budgeting programme that turns student ideas into real change.
👉 Sign up: t.ly/IIfwB
#CivicEducation
Honoured that one of our co-founders, Louisa Slavkova, spoke at #eTwinning2025 on citizenship education & “skills for life.” She reminded us that classrooms are civic infrastructure – where belonging, curiosity & democracy grow.
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Honoured that one of our co-founders, Louisa Slavkova, spoke at #eTwinning2025 on citizenship education & “skills for life.” She reminded us that classrooms are civic infrastructure – where belonging, curiosity & democracy grow.
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
Watch Louisa's full keynote here: t.ly/z9hj8
🎉 A milestone for civic education in Brazil!
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🎉 A milestone for civic education in Brazil!
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
After 3 years of collective work, the Ministry of Education launched the country’s first national programme for citizenship and sustainability education.
Proud to be partners with RedeNEC, and inspired by the persistence behind this milestone.
Join us at the #NECECampus with Alexandra Stef to explore how communities turn care into action through shared fundraising, local grantmaking, and simple ways to keep people involved. Real stories from Romania and across Europe show how lasting change begins close to home.
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Join us at the #NECECampus with Alexandra Stef to explore how communities turn care into action through shared fundraising, local grantmaking, and simple ways to keep people involved. Real stories from Romania and across Europe show how lasting change begins close to home.
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
Register: t.ly/ICIAs
💭 “You can’t cultivate wellbeing in children if the adults are depleted.”
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
💭 “You can’t cultivate wellbeing in children if the adults are depleted.”
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, SEL researcher & NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago, reminds us: hope in education begins by investing in those who teach.
🌱 Read more: t.ly/6KWQf
Across the world, young people face huge questions about the future – from climate anxiety to conflict and wellbeing.
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Across the world, young people face huge questions about the future – from climate anxiety to conflict and wellbeing.
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
The International Baccalaureate's Festival of Hope gives them space to speak, listen & act.
In the NECE Magazine, Tim Logan shares how: magazine.nece.eu/hope/tom-log...
Join our next NECE Campus session to explore HistoriCall – a digital toolbox by the House of European History that reimagines Europe’s story through interactive, student-centred learning.
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join our next NECE Campus session to explore HistoriCall – a digital toolbox by the House of European History that reimagines Europe’s story through interactive, student-centred learning.
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 15:00–16:00 CEST
🎙️ With Florian Tuder, House of European History
🔗 Register: t.ly/k3f0F
🌱 Can hope drive social change?
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🌱 Can hope drive social change?
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
Researchers Smadar Cohen-Chen and Ruthie Pliskin show how group-based hope – when paired with a sense of efficacy – can spark collective action and open paths to compromise even in polarised contexts.
🔗 Read their interview: t.ly/2Y9tJ
🌍 At this year's NECE Festival: HOPE in Oslo, RedeNEC, CENESA & THE CIVICS, as co-creator of NECE signed a joint declaration uniting civic educators across continents.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🌍 At this year's NECE Festival: HOPE in Oslo, RedeNEC, CENESA & THE CIVICS, as co-creator of NECE signed a joint declaration uniting civic educators across continents.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
🤝 With this declaration, we commit to broadening our global approach to civic education to enable it thrive even amid uncertainty.
🌍 New call for projects: Civic Innovation Fund supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung!
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
September 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🌍 New call for projects: Civic Innovation Fund supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung!
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
Up to €10,000 to pilot or scale ideas on trust, democratic resilience, loneliness, radicalisation, and polarisation.
🗓 Apply by 20 Oct, 23:59 CEST here: gstoo.de/cif_2025_2026
💡 What happens when ordinary citizens are trusted to help shape a nation’s future?
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
💡 What happens when ordinary citizens are trusted to help shape a nation’s future?
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
Read the interview with Sofie Furu from SoCentral and discover why citizen assemblies are offering a hopeful blueprint for more resilient democracies:
🔗 magazine.nece.eu/hope/sofie-f...
We’re pleased to share that our capacity-building programme for employees in the corporate sector will continue, thanks to renewed funding. With the relaunch of our programme ReLEAD. Learn more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel....
September 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We’re pleased to share that our capacity-building programme for employees in the corporate sector will continue, thanks to renewed funding. With the relaunch of our programme ReLEAD. Learn more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel....
Civic education can inspire when it feels like play. Our next #NECECampus with Tracy Saad of Commence Games explores how game-based learning opens doors to bias-free, participatory civic life. Join us here: t.ly/gA3nR
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Civic education can inspire when it feels like play. Our next #NECECampus with Tracy Saad of Commence Games explores how game-based learning opens doors to bias-free, participatory civic life. Join us here: t.ly/gA3nR
Today on #InternationalDayofDemocracy we celebrate participation, dialogue & civic agency. At THE CIVICS, we support intergenerational participation, champion civic ed & build networks that strengthen democratic resilience - believing that democracy must be lived, learned & practiced every day.
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today on #InternationalDayofDemocracy we celebrate participation, dialogue & civic agency. At THE CIVICS, we support intergenerational participation, champion civic ed & build networks that strengthen democratic resilience - believing that democracy must be lived, learned & practiced every day.
🤔 If fear is the fuel of populism, could hope be its antidote?
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🤔 If fear is the fuel of populism, could hope be its antidote?
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
🌍 270+ educators & activists met in Oslo at NECE Festival: HOPE to practise resilience, imagination & solidarity as democratic skills.
#NECEFestival2025
Next week, we look forward to welcoming over 200 guests from civil society, politics, academia, media, and culture in Oslo for an interactive and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and actions at the NECE Festival 2025.
✨Enjoy the aftermovie from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPq...
✨Enjoy the aftermovie from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPq...
August 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Next week, we look forward to welcoming over 200 guests from civil society, politics, academia, media, and culture in Oslo for an interactive and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and actions at the NECE Festival 2025.
✨Enjoy the aftermovie from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPq...
✨Enjoy the aftermovie from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPq...
Mayor Anne Lindboe will open the NECE Festival 2025 with a clear message: “Democratic change happens when we dare to imagine something better.” Time to put hope into action.
🔗 More on the programme here: nece.eu/nece-festiva...
🔗 More on the programme here: nece.eu/nece-festiva...
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Mayor Anne Lindboe will open the NECE Festival 2025 with a clear message: “Democratic change happens when we dare to imagine something better.” Time to put hope into action.
🔗 More on the programme here: nece.eu/nece-festiva...
🔗 More on the programme here: nece.eu/nece-festiva...
At the NECE Festival 2025, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a participatory art exhibition that turns silk scarves created by young Ukrainians into stories of transformation and HOPE - reflecting on their own journeys of change.
Register here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...
Register here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
At the NECE Festival 2025, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a participatory art exhibition that turns silk scarves created by young Ukrainians into stories of transformation and HOPE - reflecting on their own journeys of change.
Register here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...
Register here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...