About CCN

The Consumer Citizenship Network deals with

- stimulating and coordinating research about consumer citizenship

- identifying common competences for consumer citizenship

-surveying curriculum provision of consumer citizenship education

- developing good practice for teaching and acessing consumer citizenship education

The Network focuses on:

- how can the consumer citizen deal with the ethical challenges of prosperity?

- how can the media and ICT be constructive tools for the consumer citizen?

- what are the consumer citizen’s rights and responsibilities as regards food, transport, housing, energy use and personal finances?

- what contributions can the European consumer citizen make towards the eradication of poverty in the world?

- how can awareness and social involvement be stimulated in the consumer citizen?

- how can sustainable consumption best be taught