The European Values Study has been the basis of various online and in-person educational tools, aimed to serve an educational purpose in local projects that involve students from secondary and primary schools.
EVALUE: European Values in Education
Along with the Fontys Hogeschool (Eindhoven, NL), EVS designed a special website where students, teachers and other users can find materials about values in Europe and make their own maps. The website is available in seven languages: English, German, Dutch, Slovak, Turkish, French and Spanish. On the basis of the interactive maps, visitors can see how the people of European countries at different times (1981, 1990, 1999 and 2008), thought and action, but also compare groups in Europe, including young and old, or men and women.
The website contains extensive teaching materials for teachers in secondary education: lesson plans, teaching methods and specially recorded videos of young people across Europe. The use of the teaching material is kept online and counts more than 2000 sessions per year.
Atlas of European Values
Since 2020, thanks to the support of the Erasmus+ programme, the website (https://www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/) was updated with new data from EVS2017-2020 and new teaching material developed in the context of EVALUE.
Read more about the full EVALUE (European Values in Education) project here.
European Norms and Values
A teaching module about European Norms and Values was developed in collaboration with “Wetenschapsknooppunt Brabant” (Science Centre Brabant). Based on the data collection of the European Values Study, primary school pupils (11/12 years old) could explore how adults and children think about education and parenting. Children were able to gain insight into their own values and can discuss these with other pupils, teachers, and parents. In an instruction video, Dr. Inge Sieben (Department of Sociology, Tilburg University) explains why Europeans think so differently. The module was available at home and in the classroom.
The Juniorkennisbank was a Dutch language platform where children, parents, and teachers also could find information about a wide range of scientific topics. Within the first year of its launch, the module has abstracted more than 45.000 unique visitors (between March 2015 and January 2016). The program was available for a number of years but is currently no longer in use.
Visitors’ Centre of the Europarliament
The European Values Study was also featured in the exhibition space on “United in Diversity” of Visitors’ Centre of the European Parliament, in Brussels. This area is based on the idea that the European Union, despite the cultural differences and multitudinous interests, works together and develops concepts for a future European civil society. A shifting 3D map of Europe was hung on the ceiling of this room, showing the results from the European Values Study with light displays. It has since made room for other relevant exhibitions.
