ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and evaluates a curriculum development project involving twenty-two university departments of education in thirteen European countries. The project, funded by the European Commission under its ERASMUS programme, was designed to enable teacher educators to learn from each other's experiences of human rights education. In October 1991 there was an opportunity to bid for funds from the European Commission for an ERASMUS curriculum development programme. The project was introduced as a plan to create a network of teacher education institutions committed to education for citizenship in a European context, including responsibility to society and to the environment. Twenty lecturers from sixteen universities in Belgium, Denmark, France, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK made up the initial project team. They each committed themselves to work with students in a way that would enable them to engage with the project aims. Each participant prepared a poster illustrating a successful activity or course linked to the theme of the project.
