Gruppo Comenius - EuroGiò - ITIS Othoca (OR)

Europe: should be a model country based on three main qualities: the quality of development, the quality of human resources,and the quality of education. According to me quality of delopment means to assure today and future European citizens a harmonious, durable and sustainable growth of our society. That is a healthy and dynamic economy , an equitable and sure society, a respected and clean enviroment. I wish a European model founded on the centrality of the human being (as citizen, as worker or sudents, as consumer) and on the principle of the quality of life; on the peaceful, tollerant and benevolent coexistence among different people and cultures. Such model should be founded on an active citizenship and on the participation of every individual to great European adventure, because a development of "quality" and sustainable authentically should be democratic and partecipatory: not "exlusive" but "inclusive".
New and more flexible forms of governament, of consultation, of information should be explored to marke of Europe an authentic network and not only an ideal. The necessity to guarantee all people this active citizen ship, that is the leaven of the quality of the European development, leads us to define the second quality, that of the human resources.
As quality of the hman resources I mean the competence, the knowledge, the adaptability and the curiosity that all citzens, young people and less young people, will have to develop. These are essential characteristics not only to find a job or grow up in our own job , but also to practice our own civil, social and cultural rights, to understand, to choose and not to suffer from the great and complex changes of our days, the new technologies, the globalization, the changelles of the bioethics, the "new economy". The issue of the quality of education is becoming more and more important at least three reasons:
· because the formative offer is increasing all over the world (short or long virtual courses for young people and adults);
· because the young people are more and more "flexible", that is ready to spend periods of study abroad that will have to be recognized coming back to their native country (without a quality guarantee, such mobility could be hidered);
· because the preparation of the future European citizens is placed in a more and more complex context,evolutionary and demanding.
· because today a bad education can damage a young person more than yesterday and a good education can offer more advatages and better opportunities.

The quality of education is not only a slogan, but an authentic goal to achieve, and therefore to estimate if we want to pursue the quality of education, the quality of learning and that of the support services. According to me also the comparison and the exchange of information among the European countries can contribute to the improvement of the various thousands qualities of Europe.