On 8th April, our project team including Ms Sarah Keating, Head of Unit for Regional and Bilateral Co-operation - South East Europe Education Department DG II - Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation Council of Europe and Ms Isabel Cristovam-Bellman, Unit for Regional and Bilateral Co-operation, visited two pilot schools in Mardin. In both schools, they were welcomed very warmly and were impressed by the results of the project activities implemented in schools so far. In Selahaddin Eyyübi Primary and Lower-Secondary, president of the school parliament made a presentation to the delegation. In her presentation, she summarised how they implemented democtatic school activities, with a specific focus on the "Democracy Desk". School counselling teacher also provided information about the outcomes of each specific activity and their methodology.

Selahaddin Eyyübi is one of the 11 pilot primary schools of the Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (Generation Democracy) Project. There have been a number of activities carried out in order to promote democratic school culture and to ensure that democratic values and attitudes flourish among students at an early age starting from grade 1 to grade 8.