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Madrid
Spain
- Democracy and community development
- Youth and education
Our Mission and Objectives are to develop educational, cultural, artistic, scientific, ethic and social programmes, seminars, and lectures, for students, teachers, parents, school principals, and society in general. We try to cover aspects that are not present in the official curriculum. We focus mainly on Values education.
Methodologically we care more about the processes than the results. For instance, in our parliamentary programmes, it is important to us that participants go through the processes of investigating a subject, forming their opinion, articulating it, listen to other opinions, trying to reach an agreement, and make collective proposals; much more important than the content of the proposals.
Our main projects:
Model European Parliament. Fundación San Patricio organizes the Model European Parliament in Spain. It is a European program that simulates a European Parliament Sessions with students from all over the EU. In Spain we have over 50.000 students from over 600 schools participating in regional, national and international sessions. The aim is to foster better understanding of how the EU works, and develop European citizenship, as well as learning how a parliament works.
We are currently trying to set up a similar programme, but at the Euro-Mediterranean level.
Investiga I+D+i is aimed at fostering student’s interest in scientific investigation.
Aula Social organizes volunteer groups to work in hospitals and old people’s homes.