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| Young Ideas for Europe | |
Area : Citizenship, participation and information |
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| Country : GERMANY | Location : The countries of the project partners: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden. |
| Who implemented the activity : |
| Robert Bosch Stiftung, together with IFOK. The Robert Bosch Stiftung is one of the major German foundations associated with a private company and has managed the philanthropic request of company founder Robert Bosch for more than 40 years. IFOK is a company which provides services in the field of employement, education, mobility, public relations and environment. Its service include counseling on change management, mediation, moderation, online participation, process management, public relations, network management, strategy consulting. |
| Aims / Objectives : |
| Inspiring young people between the ages of 15 and 18 years to actively shape Europe’s political, economic and social future by giving them not only a forum, but a true voice in European politics. The two main objectives are: - Fostering European Civic Education through Dialogue : learn to think about concrete political issues beginning with the dual problems of energy and climate change at the European level, become directly involved in shaping “their” Europe, get insights into political mechanisms and interdependencies, develop the individual skills and abilities needed to participate in shaping European policy) - Raising the level of participation at the European level : active participation at debates in the workshops, in the online community, become a part of a Europe-wide partner network comprising NGOs, high-ranking politicians and foundations. |
| Short description : |
In 2008, the project’s first year of implementation, over 600 young people in 6 countries participated in a dialogue over the course of 26 weeks. In 2009 and 2010, more than 1,000 young people coming from schools from 17 countries across Europe are formulating a common “Action Plan: New Energy for Europe” by participating in workshops which all follow the same common structure. In each workshop partecipate students from a German school and students from a school of a partner country. During the 4-day workshop, young people debate and develop their ideas for energy policy and climate change together with guidance from experts from across the political spectrum. On the final day of the workshop, the students present their ideas to a group including high-ranking guests and media representatives. Using an extensive online community, students are the able to synthesize the best ideas from individual project weeks into a common “Action Plan: New Energy for Europe”. The completed Action Plan is then presented to the Swedish (July-December 2009) and Spanish (January-June 2010) EU-Presidencies, and at the Copenhagen Climate Conference (December 2009). In addition, year 2010 will see the creation of a European Youth Community to facilitate intensified yough exchange and engagement across Europe. This online community will enable some 40,000 young people from all over Europe to become involved with the project, even if they are not participating directly in a workshop, and share their views on the concepts presented. |
| Further informations : |
| Date : 17.02.2010 |
