ECA – Escola de cidadania para adolescentes (Citizenship school for adolescents)
It consists in a journey of mobilization and
Sponsor: Província Autônoma de Trento
The proposed trajectory includes face-to-
ECA – Escola de Cidadania Ativa para Adolescentes is a project that had its initial phase in 2018, through an international cooperation between Viração Educommunication, Viração & Jangada and the Autonomous Province of Trento, in Italy. In Brazil, it had the technical partnership of Unipop – Instituto Universidade Popular (Popular
training of 30 adolescents in the cities of São Paulo, Belém and Recife, with a focus on themes related to democracy and citizenship. face and distance training, composed by the following thematic axes: participatory democracy; human rights; youth condition; youth activism; educommunication; environment and climate change. Social markers of difference such as class, race, gender and sexuality are treated transversally in all axes of the project.
University Institute) and Auçuba Comunicação
In 2019, the implementation stage in the
e Educação (Auçuba Communication and
city of Belém was concluded by the partner
Education), for implementation in the cities of
Unipop, with the mobilization and training of
Belém and Recife.
30 adolescents and young people, in addition
The project aims to contribute to the and the promotion of human rights by encouraging and supporting the engagement of adolescents and youth in identifying challenges and creating interventions, considering local complexities and pluralities.
Annual Report _ 2019 Viração’s
strengthening of participatory democracy
to community intervention activities.
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