Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Erasmus Projesi, 2003 - 2006
Consumer Citizenship is an Erasmus thematic network project, focusing on how the individual’s role as a consumer can contribute constructively to sustainable development. A consumer citizen is an individual who makes choices based on ethical, social, economic and ecological considerations. The consumer citizen actively contributes to the maintenance of just and sustainable development by caring and acting responsibly on family, national and global levels.There is a growing need to stimulate the individual’s awareness of the central role they play in forming society and to assist them in finding constructive ways of doing so. This is particularly crucial in relation to the individual’s role as a consumer. The Consumer Citizenship Network (CCN) is an interdisciplinary network of educators and researchers who share an interest in how the individual’s role as a consumer can contribute constructively to sustainable development and mutual solidarity. The participants develop interdisciplinary approaches to central issues dealing with the balance between material and non-material well-being and how one can translate ethical values into everyday practice through conscientious participation in the market.Consumer citizenship is an essential element of liberal education and is part of the on-going values debate, which institutions of higher education also participate in, to define the “quality of life.” How principles of equity, equality and social justice are best expressed in the machinations of society has been the crux of national constitutions, declarations of human rights and religious and cultural traditions throughout the ages. Applying values to contemporary conditions has become continually more arduous due to the increased interrelatedness and interdependency of societies today. The rapid transformations in technology add to the complexities of this process. Consumer citizenship education is about stimulating the individual’s ability to make choices, manage resources, solve problems and contribute to the future on the basis of conscientious, principled reflection and scientific knowledge.