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Europize Yourself

2022-1-CZ01-KA152-YOU-0000579852022Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: CZ|MK|DK|AL|SE · Grant: €19,038
European identity, citizenship and valuesYouth policy developmentDemocracy and inclusive democratic participation

Objectives

After one of the most critical financial crisis of the last decades, completed by the Euro Zone crisis, Europe is seeing rising rates of Euroscepticism. Extremist political parties are emerging strongly with an anti-EU agenda, while the mainstream political leaders are afraid of adopting strong pro-EU positions. In all these sweeping changes young people are becoming increasingly confused and can easily adopt a pro or against position without being aware of the “whole story” and the potential consequences in the long-term for their country. A lot of them are either totally not interested in these matters and do not participate in elections and other democratic settings, while others are prone to the influence of their local community and reality. European awareness and values is thus, limited for a large number of European youth, with dangerous consequences in the long-term. As Europeans, we now enjoy peace, liberty, freedom of choice, movement, thinking. But this was not easily achieved. Only a few decades ago Europe was the victim of extremism, wars and numerous other conflicts, as well as fear. Much was done to reach the point where we are now, but do we remember this? Do we remember our common history where a lot of people died for the freedom that we enjoy today? Do we reflect and try to learn from the past? We strongly believe that young people throughout Europe should be able to reflect and make their own mind about the future of Europe, of the European Union and of themselves as European Citizens. Project aims to encourage reflection and critical thinking on the past, present and future of Europe, of the European Union and the concept of European Citizenship among European young people. The objectives were: 1.To increase the awareness of 35 young people from 5 countries about the European Union and its institutions, European Citizenship, European values; 2.To provide at least the space and tools needed in order to reflect and use critical thinking in regard to their European identity, thus allowing them to have their own argumentative opinion on the subject. 3. To promote intercultural dialogue 4. To create an interactive exhibition about our European identity, values, citizenship, past and future for increasing the awareness of other young people and of the local community; 5. Use social media tools to increase the awareness of thousands of young people throughout Europe about the project topic in an innovative way, by the young people for the young people in the “same language”.

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