EUROPE FOR CITIZENS
European Youth Empowerment - Festivals
The project will develop an innovative platform on which communities can actively take part, add their voice to the debate surrounding the past, present and future of the EU. Through the development of “European Youth Empowerment - festivals” the project will provide a structure that will be citizen driven, constructive, and engage the younger generations in the EU.
Involving local communities and our younger generations will provide the source material on which to build our examination of the key achievements and concrete history that has developed the EU into the driving force of peace and solidarity of our era. This will be done through the prism of our partners perceptions on the key concrete achievements that led to the formation of the EU.
The rise of skepticism and populism offer an insight into the current trends and attitudes of obstruction and the erosion of the EU's founding beliefs which pose a great threat to those EU citizens who wish for a peaceful and solidarity based union of nations.
In times of crisis the EU has played a vital role in coming to the aid of those in need and this has been a pattern in the past history of the EU but perhaps not so prevalent in our everyday perceptions. Through involving new EU members the project will raise awareness of the efforts made by the EU to increase integration and show solidarity in times of need.
The project will develop 5 “EYE - Festivals” which will provide an innovative structure on which communities, and the younger generation specifically, will be able to learn about past concrete achievements of the EU and be part of developing a new voice for their future generation.
Using non-formal learning techniques, “Live Action Role Plays” will be organized to bring to life those concrete achievements which shaped the EU and through using the energy of our youth citizens and knowledge of our shared communities forge a new understanding of trust and solidarity among each other. The LARPs are directly related to learning from the concrete achievements of the past to provide a platform for a more tolerant future. The festivals will be structured around the use of LARPs as a method to actively engage our younger generation EU citizens.
A live action role-playing game (LARP) provides an innovative non formal learning activity which is project based on participants becoming intensively familiar with a topic, scenario or event. In order to replay this event participants will need to be learn the events, main characters, situational details such as culture, time period, dress, mannerisms in order to fully explore the experience.
LARP participants will be taken from the local community and project participants and those who have taken part in the other main festival activities.
Each LARP will deal with an achievement of the EU and all information related to this achievement will be collected and formed into a 5 part handbook. This “EU Solidarity Handbook” will then showcase 5 examples of the EU's concrete achievements.
The project aims to develop of a true sense of solidarity among communities and develop results which can be easily disseminated and form a basis for increased understanding among nations. Local communities will be given a chance take active involvement in the 2 day festivals through:
-Organize EYE debates/panel discussion
-Presentations of countries/opinion polls
-Involvement in EYE festival quiz
-Informed on EU voluntary systems/European Solidarity Corps
-Training and workshops on EU achievements
-Participation in LARPs
The festivals will involve bringing young people together to work analyzing a concrete achievement of the EU and bringing that to life and to reality and debating the future.
The festival will host an EYE panel discussion, debate and present local European Solidarity Corps examples of best practice, as well as present cultural activities from partners as part of the cultural evening to be held.
Each “EYE-festival” will be preceded by a local community opinion poll based on the topic related to the EU. The results from these community opinion polls will be presented during each of the 5 main festivals.
The project will develop an innovative platform on which communities can actively take part, add their voice to the debate surrounding the past, present and future of the EU. Through the development of “European Youth Empowerment - festivals” the project will provide a structure that will be citizen driven, constructive, and engage the younger generations in the EU.
Involving local communities and our younger generations will provide the source material on which to build our examination of the key achievements and concrete history that has developed the EU into the driving force of peace and solidarity of our era. This will be done through the prism of our partners perceptions on the key concrete achievements that led to the formation of the EU.
The rise of skepticism and populism offer an insight into the current trends and attitudes of obstruction and the erosion of the EU's founding beliefs which pose a great threat to those EU citizens who wish for a peaceful and solidarity based union of nations.
In times of crisis the EU has played a vital role in coming to the aid of those in need and this has been a pattern in the past history of the EU but perhaps not so prevalent in our everyday perceptions. Through involving new EU members the project will raise awareness of the efforts made by the EU to increase integration and show solidarity in times of need.
The project will develop 5 “EYE - Festivals” which will provide an innovative structure on which communities, and the younger generation specifically, will be able to learn about past concrete achievements of the EU and be part of developing a new voice for their future generation.
Using non-formal learning techniques, “Live Action Role Plays” will be organized to bring to life those concrete achievements which shaped the EU and through using the energy of our youth citizens and knowledge of our shared communities forge a new understanding of trust and solidarity among each other. The LARPs are directly related to learning from the concrete achievements of the past to provide a platform for a more tolerant future. The festivals will be structured around the use of LARPs as a method to actively engage our younger generation EU citizens.
A live action role-playing game (LARP) provides an innovative non formal learning activity which is project based on participants becoming intensively familiar with a topic, scenario or event. In order to replay this event participants will need to be learn the events, main characters, situational details such as culture, time period, dress, mannerisms in order to fully explore the experience.
LARP participants will be taken from the local community and project participants and those who have taken part in the other main festival activities.
Each LARP will deal with an achievement of the EU and all information related to this achievement will be collected and formed into a 5 part handbook. This “EU Solidarity Handbook” will then showcase 5 examples of the EU's concrete achievements.
The project aims to develop of a true sense of solidarity among communities and develop results which can be easily disseminated and form a basis for increased understanding among nations. Local communities will be given a chance take active involvement in the 2 day festivals through:
-Organize EYE debates/panel discussion
-Presentations of countries/opinion polls
-Involvement in EYE festival quiz
-Informed on EU voluntary systems/European Solidarity Corps
-Training and workshops on EU achievements
-Participation in LARPs
The festivals will involve bringing young people together to work analyzing a concrete achievement of the EU and bringing that to life and to reality and debating the future.
The festival will host an EYE panel discussion, debate and present local European Solidarity Corps examples of best practice, as well as present cultural activities from partners as part of the cultural evening to be held.
Each “EYE-festival” will be preceded by a local community opinion poll based on the topic related to the EU. The results from these community opinion polls will be presented during each of the 5 main festivals.