The dramatic changes in lifestyle in recent decades  have resulted in cultural, economic and technological transformations which require a broader understanding  of the individual’s role in local communities and in the global society.

Consumer education and teacher training: developing consumer citizenship

is a Comenius 2.1 transnational  three year project  whose aim is to further co-operation between European countries in the field of consumer education in the context of citizenship development. The central issues this project are dealing with is:

• How can education contribute to a wider vision of the consumer as an active, responsible participant in the development of a just and safe world? 
  
• In what ways does the exercise of citizenship include the practice of aware, critical choices in the marketplace?
  
• To what extent are lifestyles which neither limit the development of other human beings nor destroy the world’s environment prerequisites for being a good citizen?