The President of Educom+, Ms Georgia Karagianni, represented our organization at the prestigious international conference “Towards a European Space for Citizenship Education” held in Bečići, Montenegro, on October 13-14, 2025.

The conference, organized by the Council of Europe as part of the New Democratic Pact for Europe, brought together 70 education stakeholders including teachers, school leaders, students and policymakers from across Europe to co-create a framework for strengthening democratic citizenship education.

Ms Karagianni actively participated in two key workshop sessions:
-Codification of principles for education for democratic citizenship – establishing fundamental guidelines for democratic education practices
-Framework of Quality Assurance – developing mechanisms to ensure effective implementation across European education systems

The conference highlighted the urgent need to restore trust in democratic institutions through education. As emphasized by Montenegro’s Minister of Education, Anđela Jakšić-Stojanović: “Democracy is not inherited but practised; not written in laws but lived in relationships.”

Through panel discussions with educators and students, participants explored how the European Space for Citizenship Education can address current challenges facing European societies and strengthen democratic culture at the grassroots level – in schools and classrooms where democracy is learned and practised daily.

This initiative aims to revitalize the civic mission of education across formal, non-formal, and informal learning settings, recognizing that educators are at the forefront of preparing young people for active participation in democratic societies.

Educom+ is proud to contribute to this vital European initiative that seeks to redefine how democracy is taught, experienced, and learned across the continent.

About the Author: Georgia Karagianni

Georgia is an English teacher with further training in educational psychology, inclusive education, counselling and teaching Greek as a foreign language. She has participated in many European projects (Erasmus+ KA2 & KA3) producing intellectual outputs on intercultural education, inclusive practices, creativity, pedagogical exploitation of digital tools, environmental education, and more. She has served for five years as Head of the Department of Educational Affairs in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa Prefecture. She holds an MA in “New Forms of Education and Learning”, an MA in “Language Education for Migrants and Refugees”, and a PhD in Open and Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University, with her research focusing on digital metacognition and learning autonomy. She is a teacher trainer in Erasmus+ KA1 mobility courses and a trainer and syllabus creator at the Center of Lifelong Learning of the Hellenic Open University. She is currently serving as an EFL Education Consultant for Primary and Secondary Education at the Directorates of Education of Trikala and Karditsa, Greece.