Our experience with Jean Monnet Module showed the interest and demand for the courses with European focus. At the same time the Sustainability and Digitalisation topics raised special interest of the audience. With such topics being at the top of the agenda across the worlds, we see the need to have a deeper discussion of those with the students of economic and finance specialisations. Those are the future managers, entrepreneurs, bankers, public officials. The profound exposure to these thematic will have a strong and decisive impact on such groups.
Teaching or students about the Sustainability and Digitalization with focus on the EU with its know-how in these fields has a double effect – the beneficiaries learn both about the relevant topics and about the EU and its role in creating and prompting the most advanced standards in those fields. In order to make such trainings really relevant for the learners, the material will be adjusted to the needs of the audience and even integrated into existing courses. It will be closer linked to the local conditions and to the backgrounds of the audience. We believe that this is only possible if the materials are developed in collaboration with the academic participants from the host institutions, who will be able to support the process of adaptation of materials to the needs of the students, possibly integrate the material into their syllabi, and at the end deliver this content to the students
We realise now, that the message of sustainability to have a more profound impact should reach the younger audiences. That’s why we want to involve into the orbit of our activities not only adults, but also younger public - pupils of colleges and schools, as by that we might be the first to reach them with the message, raising their interest not only in the issues of Sustainability, but also introducing them to the role of the EU in the sustainable development. Thus, the next focus of the ECESBF activities will be to raise the interest of schoolchildren, as well as their teaching staff, in the European studies