The Baltic Regional Summer Academy is a training programme dedicated to building a democratic and inclusive culture in schools in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia through strengthening the competences of education professionals and community actors to teach, implement and promote Citizenship and Human Rights Education and through encouraging joint actions and partnerships.
The training programme consists of several phases – preparatory phase (May – June, 2018), the residential seminar (28th June – 01st July, 2018), implementation phase (September 2018 – April 2018) and evaluation phase (April – May, 2018).
School teams in cooperation with school communities and together with the national facilitator, assess the situation the school to identify strength and areas for improvements, using the EWC tool.
| Thursday, 28th June | |
| Until 13.00 | Arrival |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-16.00 | Official opening |
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Short introduction of the Schools
Introduction of the Regional Baltic Summer Academy training programmes Learning goals and questions | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Group building activity |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Free time |
| 19.00-20.00 | Dinner |
| 20.00 | School fair |
| Friday, 29th June | |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Whole school approach and Competences for Democratic Culture |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | My school – safe and inclusive? |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-16.00 | Dealing with controversial issues in schools (I) |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Dealing with controversial issues in schools (II) |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Free time |
| 19.00 – 21.00 | Dinner on a sightseeing boat along Emajõgi river with a guided tour |
| Saturday, 30th June | |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Building a school (I) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Building a school (II) |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-16.00 | Work on school projects (I) |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Work on school projects (II) and preparation of presentations |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Free time |
| 19.00 – 21:00 | Dinner at Aparaaditehas |
| 21:00 | Free time or jointly organized activities (see the city by night, karaoke, farewell party, etc) – participation is voluntary |
| Sunday, 1st July | |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Project presentations |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Planning next steps |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15:30 | Closing session |
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- Evaluation - Issuing of certificates | |
| 15.30 | Departure |