“New Citizenship Studies” is the name given to the trilogy, launched by Petrony Editora in July 2024, made up of a team of academics from the Universities of Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and Braga and led by Professor Isabel Baltazar, an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA FCSH, an associate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra and a lecturer at ISEC Lisbon. The trilogy has the seal of the UNESCO International Network “The City that Educates and Transforms”, led by ISEC Lisboa, of which the researcher and author is the scientific coordinator.

This project was carried out in an interdisciplinary way by higher education academics, aimed at teachers and the general public. The timeliness of this trilogy is heightened by the need to foster citizenship skills in teachers, in particular, and citizens, in general, as well as to disseminate knowledge of the European Union, in the various areas of European Studies.

The project - Fostering European Citizenship Skills. All Together Now! met for about two years, once a month, for researchers to discuss how to foster this European Citizenship - an Active Citizenship - and therefore supported by the Treaty on European Union, in 1992, in which European citizenship is complementary to national citizenship, seeming easy to build legally, but much more difficult to realize in the feeling of belonging to a community by Europeans.

From this project, these 3 volumes of the New Citizenship Studies collection have now emerged: Us and the Others, the Europeans: United in Diversity (Volume I), Law, Political Science and International Relations (Volume II) and The School as a Foundation. The European Dimension of Education (Volume III).