From 30 November to 2 December 2023, the NECE Festival 2023: FUTURES! conference took place in Madrid, with the themes of learning and exchange, mapping and exploration, networking and advocacy. Over a hundred representatives from civil society, politics and science from Europe and beyond came together for three days of lectures, workshops, markets and informal conversations to work together and individually to find solutions to civic education and future challenges.

At the beginning of November, we organised a workshop on filming and editing videos for students taking the 'Youth and Politics' and 'Comparative Politics of Human Rights' courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences. In both courses, students will prepare group research assignments, which will be presented in videos that they will film and edit themselves, presenting the themes and findings of their research assignments.

Based on feedback from teachers in the form of a survey and interviews, we have designed a series of one-day modular workshops that address under-covered but highly topical themes in the area of citizenship. Thus, we will conduct one-day workshops with top national and international experts: Dr. Mitja Sardoč (Pedagogical Institute), Dr. Jason A Laker (University of San Jose, USA), Dr. Karolina Babič (DOBA), Maja Drobne (Pina, FdV UL), Nina Vombergar (FdV UL), Dr. Howard Williamson (South Wales University, UK). All workshops are free of charge and you will be issued with a certificate of attendance that you can use for your promotion. The workshops will be run for groups of 10-15 participants, to ensure good communication and to keep you active, as the workshops are very practically oriented.

On Monday 17 July, we met as a wider team to check how the project is progressing. Together with Dr. Mitjo Sardoč and Prof. Dr. Tomaž Deželan, we checked how the project is progressing, assessed the steps taken so far and planned the next steps. This included a review of the analysis of textbooks and curricula, the analysis of interviews with civic education teachers, which were combined with a survey aimed at the same target group - both of which served to verify needs and to prepare a strategy. A similar workshop will be held in less than a year and external experts will be involved at that time as well.