What is Civnet?Civnet is a Civitas International website for civic education professionals (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, politicians, journalists with a civic-minded and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote civic education around the world.ObjectiveAny healthy, fully functioning democracy requires a political culture composed of active participants who understand what it means to be democratic citizens. While there may be free and fair elections in new and emerging democracies, a democratic culture may not yet exist; that is, people may not be accustomed to voting, running for elected office, understanding how their government works, seeking out diverse sources of information to make informed choices, forming advocacy and public interest groups to influence political outcomes in a process of consensus building, non-coercive political system and creation of voluntary organizations to meet social needs not met by government or the commercial sector. “Civil society” can be considered as the third sector and a foundation on which free, non-coercive, democratic policies must rest. Furthermore, well-established democracies often witness greater apathy, atomization, and a dilution of citizen participation and civic politics. civic behavior, as civic values ​​are not adequately reinforced and can become stale. Therefore, civic education at the pre-collegiate and collegiate levels is vital for both newer and older democracies, to ensure that future generations of citizens understand the values, mechanisms and skills necessary to develop and maintain a democratic political system. As a result, an international coalition of interested academics and representatives of non-governmental and governmental organizations formed the Civitas International association and helped create Civnet to address these needs by raising the profile of civic education, promoting civic education in the agendas of government policymakers around the world, enriching the debate on teaching methodology, establishing teacher training programs, creating and distributing lesson plans, syllabuses, curricula, textbooks, and civic education programs. educational materials and enable civic education professionals to network and share information, ideas and resources. In addition to teachers, educators and politicians, many believe that journalists also have a role to play in highlighting citizen solutions and success stories, rather than simply reporting on social problems. While Civitas International carries out many activities to achieve these goals, Civnet is unique in that it provides an international electronic resource where teachers can instantly receive and download teaching resources, scholars can read articles of thought and opinion, and use Civnet links to find a world of other civic web resources, and civic educators can read what their colleagues are doing in Civnet news, network with their counterparts in other organizations, and learn about upcoming civic events in the Civnet calendar.