Imagine that the students get the opportunity to sit in the seats of the representatives of their municipality. What will they want to change and improve? Will they be able to defend their ideas? Can they handle the rules of procedure and the presence of the media and the public?
Simulated student council
For high school students, we run a student council simulation project, during which students try out the role of councillors, learn how municipal politics works and, together with their city councillors, propose solutions to some local problems. The personal meeting with politicians and the actual experience of a simulated council meeting will provide students not only with an unusual experience, but also with the opportunity to establish direct contact with political representatives of the municipality where they live or study.

Project objectives:
- To increase young people’s interest in local politics and the problems in their neighbourhood and to teach them how to get involved in solving them;
- To establish cooperation between young people in the city and local politicians
- To give students practical experience of how local politics is made;
- Foster young people’s commitment and motivation to engage in decision-making in the city and the surrounding area at civic, community and political levels.
The project is designed as a three-day programme and is prepared for a group of 25-30 students.The students may be students of secondary schools, apprenticeships or grammar schools, or even students of upper primary school (8th-9th grade).
Within the programme students:
- attend interactive educational workshops;
- visit and evaluate an actual local council meeting;
- name issues and opportunities that need attention in their neighbourhood and prepare proposals on how to address them;
- sit on a student council, led by the mayor or vice-mayor of the municipality, and advocate their own proposals.
In its focus, the municipal politics simulation project develops students’ civic competences, it is also related to the Framework Curriculum for Secondary Schools and it fulfils in an interactive way some of the expected outcomes within the educational field of Citizen in the State (within the educational field of Civic and Social Science Foundation).

Implemented student councils:




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