The Blue Paper ‘Understanding the role of school education on promoting active citizenship’ was produced within the project CATCH-EyoU – Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions (2015-2018 | H2020-YOUNG-SOCIETY-2014), and summarizes the main findings of the project’s WP6 in nontechnical terms for dissemination to relevant stakeholders.