Schools in Austria on the Path to Become European Parliament Ambassador Schools

More+More+ ♦ Published: September 26, 2022; 23:06 ♦ (Vindobona)

With a full-day kick-off event with European Parliament members Hannes Heide and Thomas Waitz at the House of the European Union in Vienna, teachers from 20 schools, started the Ambassador Schools Program of the European Parliament for the school year 2022/23.

The European Parliament offers a special program for schools in the field of European politics, which enables participating schools to have their school certified as an "Ambassador School of the European Parliament". / Picture: © Flickr / Dimitar Nikolov / [CC BY-SA 2.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)]

The aim of the "Ambassador Schools of the European Parliament" program is to promote awareness of Europe and the European Parliament as well as European democracy among young people.

The program is a Europe-wide program of the European Parliament and was implemented in Austria by the Liaison Office of the European Parliament together with the Federal Ministry of Education,…