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Religionspädagogik The project "Religious Education at Schools in Europe" (REL-EDU), which is divided up into six volumes (Central Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe), aims to research the situation with regard to religious education in Europe. The third volume outlines the organisational form of religious education in the countries of Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Iceland). This is done on the basis of thirteen key issues, which allows specific points of comparison between different countries in Europe. Thereby the volume focusses the comparative approach and facilitates further research into specific aspects of the comparison. Biographische Informationen Prof. Dr. Martin Jäggle lehrt Religionspädagogik und Katechetik an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien. Dr. Martin Rothgangel ist Professor für Religionspädagogik an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien. Prof. Dr. Geir Skeie lehrt Religionspädagogik an den Universitäten Stockholm und Stavanger. Reihe Wiener Forum für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft - Band 10.3.

Minorities have been part of European history and politics since the middle of the 16th Century, often seen as obstacles to state-building and later as a threat to nation-building. Traditional minorities have had to fight their own way to be able to remain in their homelands, while new arrivals have been met with rejection and were expected to return home. Minorities are still seen as a threat to peace and security and mostly as outsiders. In the early 21st Century of inter-connected societies, minorities are more than ever an issue often seen as a threat to social cohesion. This book provides

In Norwegen und der Schweiz haben die Bevölkerungen die EU-Integration in Volksabstimmungen mehrheitlich abgelehnt. Die enorme Mobilisierung und Emotionalisierung in den Integrationsdebatten kann weder durch ökonomische noch durch politische Umstände hinreichend erklärt werden. Die Hauptmobilisierungsressource der Euroskeptiker liegt vielmehr in der Reaktivierung tief verwurzelter nationaler Selbst- und Fremdbilder. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, wie Akteure in der Schweiz und Norwegen ihren Integrationswiderstand mittels nationaler Erzählungen und Bildersprachen als sinnvoll darstellen. Euroskeptiker verstehen sich primär als Verteidiger der guten nationalen Gemeinschaft. Diese Gemeinschaft und deren Nationalstaat beschreiben sie als wärmer, natürlicher, näher, gerechter, effizienter, friedlicher und demokratischer als das integrierte Europa, welches als ferner, kalter, bürokratischer Superstaat EU dargestellt wird. ; In Norway and Switzerland the majority of the people rejected EU-integration in several referenda. The emotionality and the enormous mobilization that took place in the debates on integration cannot be sufficiently explained by economic and political reasons. Instead, the main resource aiding this eurosceptic mobilisation for lies more in reactivating deeply rooted descriptions of the national self and those of the 'others'. Carving out these collective images, this paper compares how the major eurosceptical actors of Switzerland and Norway describe their actions as meaningful in their iconography and narrations. Eurosceptics perceive themselves mainly as defenders of the national community and its nation-state, which are regarded as warm, natural, close, just, efficient, peaceful and democratic, while an integrated Europe is perceived as a distant, cold and bureaucratic super-state EU.

TEAM_Play -Tool Suite for Environmental and Economic Aviation Modelling for Policy Analysis- offers a range of European capabilities for the modelling of aviation noise, local air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, climate response, technology and economic impacts, and respective interdependencies. These useful capabilities for historic, current and future year impact assessments are combined in a unique single tool suite, and thus to be operated in a common environment. The further use of a single input data source (i.e., data warehouse and exchange platform) is an enabler for consistent and more accurate aviation economic and environmental trade-off studies and policy impact assessments. The collaborative project TEAM_Play, co-funded by the European Commission (EC) as part of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union (EU), ended in 2013. Progress on aviation environmental modelling and capability management in Europe has been slow since, or concentrated within specific activities (ICAO CAEP, Clean Sky, SESAR). In order to collaboratively move on, and supporting and strengthening the European position in the international policy arena, the European aviation environmental modelling strategy needs further implementation and momentum. In this context, the proposed presentation addresses TEAM_Play for Europe.