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Youth in Europe - past, present & future

Youth in Europe - past, present & future

At the heart of the EU are the 28 Member States and their citizens. The unique point is that all these states remain sovereign and independent, but bundle some of their sovereign powers in areas where cooperation is meaningful. This partial transfer of powers to institutions, which the Member States themselves have created, means in practice that decisions on specific issues of common interest can be taken demo-cratically at European level.
(http://publications.europa.eu/webpub/com/eu-what-it-is/en/)

Among the EU's goals include promoting peace, European values and the well-being of its citizens, freedom, security and the rule of law without internal borders, halting social injustice and discrimination, respect for their rich cultural and linguistic diversity. All EU Member States share the values of the EU: they seek a society in which inclusion, tolerance, the rule of law, solidarity and non-discrimination are a matter of course. These values shape our European lifestyle: human dignity, freedom, democracy, gender equality, the rule of law and human rights.
(https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en).

At this point, the intension of the project continues: "How important is Europe for young people?", "What are the expectations of young people to future Europe? "," What demands does future Europe place on young people? ".
The participating schools have formed an international school network for many years, the Committee Europe (https://committee-europe.eu). This alliance is based on the idea of bringing together pupils from as many European countries as possible to engage in mutual cultural exchanges to eliminate prejudice and convey the idea of a European "citizenship". This takes place annually in workshops at various locations on specific topics in the fields of sports, music, art, politics, economics or science. The Erasmus+project focuses on the "European thought", i.e. “What perspectives (cultural, social, economic) does Europe have for young people between the ages of 13 and 16?” It is divided into two phases, i.e. between 2020 and 2021, in parallel workshops with up to 250 pupils, a vision of the "idea of a united Europe" will be discussed or drawn up.

In the first phase (2019-2020), possible historical, cultural, social or economic differences or aspects should be clarified and perspectives should be shown. The pupils should develop an age-appropriate electronic questionnaire, which is carried out at all participating schools (about 5000 pupils) of the respective national language. In the second phase (2021) this questionnaire will be evaluated by the pupils at workshops and the results prepared for a presentation at the participating schools.

 

 

 

Project EuroWater

 

At 25th of September 2013 we have started the new project "EuroWater" in Wittmund. This project is a Lifelong Learning Programme and 5 schools are sponsored by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

 

 

The students participating in this European Exchange Program are going to face and prepare themselves with the issue “Water – the No. 1 provision for Europe” by checking up on the effectivity of jural obligations, quality standards, and monitoring and safeguarding measures inside the European Union as published in the “EU directive on the quality of water for human supply”, published by the European Council on November 1998, No. 98/83/EG. You can get this information in different languages.
 

Read more: Project EuroWater

EuroWater

 

In September 2013 we will start the new project "EuroWater 2013-2015".

 

The students participating in this European Exchange Program are going to face and prepare themselves with the issue “Water – the No. 1 provision for Europe” by checking up on the effectivity of jural obligations, quality standards, and monitoring and safeguarding measures inside the European Union as published in the “EU directive on the quality of water for human supply”, published by the European Council on November 1998, No. 98/83/EG. You can get this information in different languages.
 

Our day-to-day lives increasingly depend on our ability to manipulate natural resources in a way that prevents long-term or irreversible damage. Regarding a right attitude towards the environment, it is not enough to be zonal or national, but is necessary to be global. The goal of this project is to achieve a major step towards building a common attitude in European schools regarding environmental education. That what we'll hope to find out and achieve with our common project is the opportunity as students and teachers from partner schools:

 

- take a look at their community and analyze what is happening regarding the management of water quality

- compare specific problems and solutions from different European areas

- identify different attitudes and effective solutions

- share learning experiences

- participate in learning and research activities carried out in international cooperation

- experiment current research techniques

- draw conclusions and a common ecological view

- disseminate, in local and European community, their observations and conclusions

- send - to local and European makers - signals which can be exploited in decisions on environmental protection and environmental education.

 

 

In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation (Resolution A/RES/65/154).

 

Information showing how sensitive the issue is to be found in the study "Current state and future challenges of European's Waters"  from the European Parliament.

 

 

 

On the event "EuroPAXket 2013" in Quakenbrück you will get more informations ...

Committee Europe 2013