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Hungary - Students without Boundaries

The Hungarian project ‘Students without Boundaries’ is a real ‘workshop of Europe’ that brings together 135 participants from five European countries every year to learn what Europe is all about: different nationalities and cultures living together, tolerance and respect, and shared European values. Within just a few years, 1,500 participants have grown together to form a community, the ‘Rákàczi family’. This unique experience is the basis for long-term and lasting contacts, a European network for young people and future leaders.

Greece – Secondary school in Vyronas

Exactly thirty years ago, in May 1978, Konstantin Karamanlis became the first Greek to be awarded the International Charlemagne Prize. The award was intended as a sign of encouragement and a signal that democratic Greece, newly liberated from military dictatorship, should take its place in the European Community as quickly as possible. Just a few months later, a unique project was launched at the secondary school in Vyronas. Since then, since 1979, the school has closely followed and experienced all the important stages of European unification for and with its pupils, thereby giving thousands of pupils an experience of European identity.