In 2020, for the first time students in Bulgaria started to study civic education as a subject of their compulsory education.

The introduction of the ‘Civic Education’ subject comes at a time when democracy in Europe, and in the world at large, is in decline. The growing populist slogans and nationalist trends, ruling “with a firm hand” and the anti-democratic rhetoric tendencies bring to the fore the need for active citizenship.

It takes a concerted effort - that of educators, that of parents, and that of our community of citizens as a whole - to recognize the priority of civic education and to help make it an effective part of young people's learning.

Activities
Following the topics of the civic education curriculum for the 11^th and 12^th grade, we set ourselves the goal of developing video lessons that tell the lessons in accessible language. We created more than 60 lessons. Each lesson is followed by a test to try out the newly acquired knowledge.

The lessons are hosted on the educational platform ucha.se - the most visited educational website in Bulgaria.

Materials

Thanks to the support of the European Commission in Bulgaria and Ucha.se all video lessons are available for free on the ucha.se website. You can watch an example video (available in Bulgarian) here:

 

The texts for the video lessons are written by:

Evelina Ivanova, methodologist
Yavor Siderov, political scientist

As well as:

• Borislav Dimitrov, lawyer
• Daniel Stefanov, political scientist
• Louisa Slavkova, political scientist
• Radoslav Stoyanov, human rights expert
• Silvia Ivanova, culturologist

The texts are adapted for the audience by the team of Ucha.se. The animations are also made by Ucha.se. Funding organization:
The European Commission in Bulgaria