The united nations agency UNICEF has announced it is expanding its "Rights Respecting Schools Award" to Irish Schools . The programme described as an "EU project" , first piloted in september 2019 in nine primary and secondary schools in Cork, Dublin and Kildare. The stated purpose of the programme

Back in 2010 at an Education Show in Birmingham in the UK , the European Commission's Publication Manager, Judith Schilling , handing out EU Booklets aimed at children , tells an interviewer: Everybody has now picked up on the idea that we will never succeed to convince

The Yellow Flag programme for schools is an EU cultural initiative for schools funded by the EU Commissions - Asylum , Migration and Integration fund encouraging schools to abandon the promotion of the dominant culture in Ireland in favour of an intercultural identity on the basis that it is a

Jean Monnet (1888–1979) is regarded by many as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Some refer to him as "The Father of Europe" To carry on his legacy of European Integration , the EU created The Jean Monnet Programme . The