Projects
The European Wergeland Centre provides projects in education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural understanding, involving a wide range of stakeholders from policy, research and practice.
Featured Projects
Skills4Democracy
Skills4Democracy aims to strengthen democratic resilience through civic education. Building strong democracies starts in the classroom, where young people can develop the knowledge, skills, and values needed to think critically, engage in public life, and resist manipulation and disinformation.
Schools for Democracy: Strengthening Democratic Resilience through Education
The Schools for Democracy Programme works to strengthen democratic resilience and provide support to democratic changes in education and youth sectors in Ukraine and Moldova.
22 July and Democratic Citizenship
Using the terror attacks in Norway 22 July 2011 as a starting point, young people, teachers and other educators learn to create a democratic culture and stand up against discrimination, hate speech and extremism.
Countries where we work
Countries with completed Wergeland projects
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Kosovo*, Latvia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and United Kingdom.
*All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.