The story of Turkey in the EU membership started around twenty years ago. Since these times, many steps towards being full member have taken successfully. However, the lack of information on students as well as teachers on;

• The European Union (its history, basis and how it functions)

• The values that create the EU and holds countries together

• Effects of EU on our daily lives

• Main issues EU deals with (environment, human rights, etc.) 

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has negative impact on the perception of what EU is as well as the participation process. As a non-member county, the students and teachers are not familiar with these values.

We, as BILTES Schools, strongly believe that learning these information and values will make the new generation more demanding on being a full member and more active towards becoming responsible people with the issues that EU is dealing with.

In this scope, the Small Steps Project will develop students’ and teachers’ knowledge of; 

• Europe (Culture, history) and European Union (its history, and how it works) 

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• European values such as democracy and active citizenship 

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• EU approach on environment and social issues so that we can empower new generation in the process of learning about EU and help students & teachers in strengthening their sense of belonging to the EU by using a methodology that will combine extracurricular activities with lessons officially embedded in the curricula.

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• Learning these values such as human rights and democracy from the window of EU will help students in participating in the democratic process and make them better equipped to become active citizens.