The Charter on the Rights of the Gifted Students document has been finalized recently; this was the first mutual project of the gifted youngsters arriving from the first 14 European Talent Centres to take part in the first Youth Summit which was organized parallel with the ECHA Conference held in Vienna (Austria) from the 29th of February to the 5th of March 2016. After the Summit the Youth Platform ( http://youthplatform.etsn.eu/ ) of the ETSN was formed by the youngsters, right now the Platform has about 80 members coming from 20 different countries. Since their Budapest Summit (2017 March) they have begun several new projects; some of them are also in connection with gifted and talented education. When finalizing the Charter the supervision was done by Monica Parodi, Ph.D., specialist in Political legislation and by Anna Maria Roncoroni, Ph.D. who was also the organizer of the first Youth Summit in Vienna.
The document intends to call the attention and action of all parties involved in making the life and the educational environment of gifted and talented students better, be them politicians, teachers at any level of the education system, potential mentors, tutors, parents and all members of the societies in Europe and other continents. This Charter wants to contribute to the process of making these societies more and more supportive for helping the gifted and talented youngsters as they are they are the actors of solving the unprecedented challenges mankind faces in the 21st century.
The document – among others – speaks about the following topics: talent identification, adequate educational opportunities, nondiscrimination, international cooperation in matters relating to education, in particular with a view to contributing to the elimination of ignorance and illiteracy etc. The document is downloadable here: Charter of the Right of gifted and talented students