After the kick-off, the empirical data collection is now starting. In interviews and focus groups with project managers and staff from all four countries, as well as in peer-to-peer interviews and an online survey with young people, we are gaining insights into their experiences with and assessments of "Raising Europe's Stars". The data gathering will take place until November 2025, after which the results will be evaluated and discussed with the project managers.
The international youth project “Raising Europe’s Stars” connects young people and encourages them to engage with European politics, democratic processes and shared values.
In a multi-stage learning format, the participants first dealt with the European Union and its structures in local groups. In regional workshops, they then took on the role of political decision-makers for the first time before conducting political debates on topics such as the Green Deal and European security in a main international event – a three-day simulation game in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. The project combines traditional political education with innovative methods such as role-playing, peer learning and intercultural exchange.
The summative evaluation is based on the Theory of Change, in line with the Goethe Institut’s “Kultur wirkt!”-approach, and Most Significant Change. The aim is to review the achievement of objectives at output and outcome level as well as to ascertain short-term effects on the target groups and a plausibility check of long-term effects on the target groups and at social level.
Data is collected by a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods such as interviews and focus groups with project managers and mentors as well as peer-to-peer interviews and an online survey with young people.
Duration: July 2025 - January 2026
Contact: veronika.ehm(at)educult.at
Client: Goethe-Institut
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