Since 1996, the Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week has been paving the way for a profound

understanding and implementation of the culture of lifelong learning by attracting public attention to

thousands of inspiring educational, promotional, information and guidance, as well as social and cultural

events. The festival has grown into a movement which annually involves from 700 to 1,100 institutions,

NGOs, interest groups and other stakeholders. In the national level School Centre Celje is high schools

coordinator. In 2013, the Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week took place between 13 th and 19th May.

During this week our students made one workshop with title Be active citizen. Workshop focused on

understanding the role of the individual in society, identifying values, acceptance of diversity and

knowledge of their rights and duties. Citizens disclose a high degree of political apathy as well as

involvement in other public matters. One of the most important goals of this workshop was to found a

way to motivate and encourage citizens/students to take part in all levels of the socio-political

development. The practice of active citizenship is therefore a question of being empowered to handle

the practice of democratic culture, rights, duties and feeling that one has a stake in getting involved in

the communities in which individual’s lives.

On workshop students wrote slogans on posters:

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Students had discussed about slogans and the role of active citizen with solving this

problems.