The Educational Programme was launched as a pilot project by the Director Dr. Dieter Schlenker in the 2013 with the aim of creating an open space of discussion for the New generations of Europeans whose students and teachers would be able to learn about the European integration process and history.
The data collection has been conserved as a first stage of selection within the materials created by the pupils and teachers both the preparatory materials wich whom the class had carried out to come to their visit at the HAEU as well as, materials created during the educational workshop. Since 2019, the educators and the coordinator started organizing the first materials. All the educators were involved in this process. Pierluigi Bolioli, external collaborator of the Educational programme, started describing the first dossiers. Later on, Virginia Salerno have continued up until 2024 when Alberto Tognarelli, trainee dedicated to the Educational programme concluded systematically the selection and the preparation for the long-term storage of materials.
The first name of the collection, given by the educational team of 2020, was "Living Archive of the New Generations of Europeans". In 2024, together with the Director, the collection was given its final name: "European Civic Education Programme". The ECEP collection has been created with the aim to disseminate the nowadays perspective of young people about the EU, as well as to make available to the international academic community, teachers and educators sources to be able to improve the way they teach the European history and how to enhance the European sense of belonging within the younger generations.

The European Civic Education Programme archival collection could be considered as a living archive which contains multimedia materials created by the actors involved in the workshops organized by the Educational Programme of the Historical Archives of European Union, mainly students and teachers, but also Ex-MEPs, researchers, educators and archivists.
The fond includes different registers that allow to trace the perspective of the New generations about the EU. The educators and the coordinator of the educational activities have selected systematycally valuable materials both created by the school classes before the visit to the HAEU and during the educational activities at the HAEU to create a more complex narrative of what young people think and what young people know about the EU. The collection contains visual representation about the EU, texts with toughts and personal/collective opinions about the EU, historical timelines about the european integration, artistic photographs to represent the EU. The fond contains as well a small collection of individual and collective interviews with students, teachers, ex-MEPs, archivists, experts and educators members of the educational programme.

The education programme didactical materials and activities have been carried out on the basis of research and the consultation and use with educational purpose of the HAEU archival collections. In particular: BAC, COM, PE, CJUE, BEI, CEDEFOP, ESA, BEUC, ETUC, EYF, AEDE, CCRE, CIFE, FDE, MFE, SEC, YFEC,ME, MFE, AS, ER, BO, EEA, ADG, CS, FBG, FDLV, GJLA, JD, SP, AE, BABE.

A selection of the materials, part of the fond, have been included by the HAEU in publications and exhibitions of the HAEU.

European citizenship, New generations of Europeans, European Identity

Scientific and Educative use, in the form of digital reproduction of documents as well as the partial reproduction of the originals are subject to the provisions in force at the HAEU.

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Artifact, Audio, Electronic File, Map/Drawing, Photograph, Poster, Textual, Video