Can civic-minded companies boost both productivity and employee satisfaction? 🎥Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8M....

At NECE Festival: HOPE, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann showed how regenerative economics can reshape the way we teach and learn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIh...

🌍 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

💡 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...

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....

“Empathy can be trained and spread like a social contagion.” Thomas Coombes at NECE Festival 2025: HOPE, calling us to turn civic education into lived experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uwy...

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.

🤔 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

The third issue of NECE Magazine is out! Learn about HOPE …as a civic skill: training imaginations, rebuilding trust, turning resignation into action. Read the full issue here: magazine.nece.eu/hope/

What difference does good facilitation make? Participants of CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK share their take: 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl8u....

Excited to attend the NECE Festival 2025 in Oslo this week! 🌍✨ Theme this year: HOPE – how collective hope can drive resilient, ethical & sustainable communities. #NECEFestival #Hope @thecivics.bsky.social

Been talking about hope at the #NECEFestival2025 in Oslo today @thecivics.bsky.social People asking how to maintain hope. Answer: values and activist self-talk. more here hopebased.substack.com/p/sport-scie...

Regenerative Economics for Secondary Schools, supported by CIF has concluded - developing resources that help teachers and curriculum developers reframe economics. It produced learning materials, curriculum mappings, and discussion papers, now shared openly here: www.youtube.com/@Regenerativ...

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...

Right vs. Wrong? Noa Brighenti (Portuguese Association of History Teachers) shows that most #polarizing issues lie somewhere in between. How she accomplishes this & more insights from civic educators as shared at our #NECELab: 👉 koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/... @thecivics.bsky.social

🚀 Another CIF success! We are proud to share the achievements of the project “Media Literacy and Civic Education from Early On” by Gutenberg Foundation 3.0: 🔹20+ articles on digital literacy for kids on vijte.bg 🔹13 school visits 🔹2 interschool competitions 🔗 www.knigovishte.bg/vijte?keywor...

❓How do civic competencies translate to the workplace? Participants and facilitators of #CIVICSCOUTS AT #WORK share their insights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlNH....

The project 'Empowering Consumers Through Financial Literacy' supported by our Civic Innovation Fund has come to an end, engaging over 200 students in Bulgaria and Serbia in practical learnings on conscious consumption, budgeting, and consumer rights. 🔗 Outcomes here: komentari.bg/index.php/bu...

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...

How can we overcome emotional barriers by truly seeing each other in #polarizing discussions? Anas Muhammed, Co-Founder of Scholitekt suggests using the “Three Image Technique”. 👉More approaches from civic educators: koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/... @thecivics.bsky.social

What makes CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK different? Participants share their views: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlj....

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...

💡EmpowerHer fused financial literacy with intercultural exchange & well-being to equip 30 young women from Ukraine & Bulgaria with money skills, digital fluency & cross-cultural networks to build financial independence & civic consciousness. Free learning toolkit: view.genially.com/67fe4f09abe1...

During the NECE Festival in Oslo, those pioneering bold and inspiring initiatives in civic education will take the stage for short, high-impact pitches, presenting projects that challenge the status quo and inspire action. ⏳ Join us: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...

What’s it like to be part of CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK? Hear directly from participants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jodh....

InnoMate by United Way Hungary, supported by CIF brought Hungarian & Romanian teens together to build real-world skills through design thinking, mentorship & financial literacy. 🚀 A milestone for cross-border civic learning - now reaching over 600 students & counting! unitedway.hu/en/innomate-...

🌍 Curious about global civic education, or lessons in democratic resilience from Ukraine? 🌱 Want to learn about how Norway fights hate and builds democratic culture? Join NECE Festival 2025: HOPE’s walk-in sessions to explore these questions and many more! Read more here: nece.eu/nece-festiva...

Why should companies invest in civic skills? Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx5....

Join us in Oslo to co-create your own conversations during the open space sessions, and encounter bold innovative civic ideas, pitches, tools and projects on the spotlight stage & at the project markets ⏱️ Not registered yet? gstoo.de/nece-festiva... More on the Action Hub: nece.eu/nece-festiva...

What role should companies play in strengthening democracy? Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST9i....

What can post-conflict societies teach us about trust, trauma, and dialogue? 🔸 Key lesson from NECE Lab Sarajevo: Polarisation isn’t the problem – how we respond to it is. More here: nece.eu/navigating-p... @koerberhistory.bsky.social #NECELab #CivicEducation #Polarisation

🎉The final winning project from our CIF call on Financial Literacy: 'SHE COUNTS' by Prospera. With workshops, mentoring & peer support in Austria and Serbia, the project empowers women, especially migrants, mothers & LGBTQ+ individuals to build financial skills, confidence & long-term independence.

#Polarisation can be a good thing - and doesn't influence democratic attitudes, says @bnbakker.bsky.social, assoc. prof. at University of #Amsterdam. More of his theses & best practise of coping w/ polarised groups as discussed at our lab in #Sarajevo: 👉 tinyurl.com/2r92ufjv @thecivics.bsky.social

Excited to have acclaimed historian, philosopher, and author Philipp Blom close the NECE Festival 2025 in Oslo, with a keynote inviting us to reflect, recharge, and return to the core of why civic education work matters. 📌 Register for the festival here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...

Find out what our participants have to say about our CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK programme. Željka Pleše, a CIVIC SCOUT from Croatia, underlines the agency that this programme gives to its participants. Listen in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JQ....

🎉 The '1000 Women Change Project' by WoW University is another winner of our CIF call on Financial Literacy. This educative programme seeks to empower 100 single mothers in Lithuania and Latvia with financial skills, career coaching & mentorship to support personal growth & civic inclusion.

What does democracy from the ground up look like? At the NECE Festival 2025, Debating Europe & @socentral.no ‬ share how youth voices & citizens' assemblies are turning HOPE into real action. 📌 Register to join the festival here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...

Youth co-creating democracy: Insights from our NECE Lab in Naumburg & Leipzig. Check it out impressions here: www.youtube.com/shorts/4VuvN... Find here the full story: nece.eu/youth-co-cre....

🌱 The CIF-funded YCM Green Challenge 2024, by YEP – Stimme der Jugend Austria, supported 200 young people to develop climate action projects 🔹 5 youth teams selected 🔹 8 project ideas submitted via video 🔹 2 hands-on workshops on fundraising & project planning 🔗 www.ycmchallenge.org/ycm-green-ch...

The CIVIC SCOUTS AT WORK programme is more relevant than ever. Louisa Slavkova, who leads its implementation in Bulgaria, highlights its urgency in today’s context: Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPKN....

💰Spotlighting another winning project from our CIF call on Financial Literacy: Regenerative Economy Pioneers. This educational initiative will co-design and co-create workshops in Austria and Czechia to equip academics and experts to reimagine economics through sustainability, equity and care.

🎉 We’re pleased to share that another CIF project supported by King Baudouin Foundation has been successfully implemented. 📽️ Wien has created a free webinar series on AI and democracy. Explore it here: www.democracy-ai.eu/en

At the Robert Bosch Stiftung’s reception, we were inspired by Natalia Gavrilița’s call to build resilient communities, which is exactly what our new ReLEAD programme is all about. Read more here: thecivics.eu/projects/rel...

How do we teach citizenship in fractured democracies? At #NECE2025, changemakers from Brazil, Uganda, China & Germany explore how civic education can restore solidarity and HOPE in a fragmented world. 📌 Register: t.ly/5h6CR #NECE2025 #CivicEducation #Democracy #HOPE #GlobalCitizenship #Pluralism

Curious about what our funders think of the #CIVICSCOUTS AT #WORK programme? Nina Lüders from Robert Bosch Stiftung highlights why it’s crucial to make employees feel truly heard in their workplace. Tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oASR...

⏰ Reminder: Have you shared your views yet? The MORES Project wants to hear about how EU policies affect you. Take the short survey and select "THE CIVICS Innovation Hub" when asked about how you heard about it. 🗳️ crowdsourcing.ecas.org/en/Mores

🎉 Introducing another winning project from our CIF call on Financial Literacy: 'Money Talks' by NGO ETC. This is an educational programme that seeks to empower young adults in Bulgaria and Ukraine to build financial confidence while tackling stereotypes, fear, gender narratives & social pressure.

🚀 Another CIF success! GEODEM-AI by EUROGEO explored AI, ethics, and geoinformation. Results include research report, training module, ethical guidelines & teacher stories. Check out the project results here: www.eurogeography.eu/projects/geo...

Journalist & media innovator Annie Jieping Zhang joins the NECE Festival 2025! She brings a unique perspective to our Global Citizenship panel, sharing how decentralised media empowers journalists & strengthens freedom of speech. 📌 Register here: gstoo.de/nece-festiva...