Young Active Citizenships - EU Meeting
A Young Active Citizenships EU Meeting will be organised during the Finnish EU Presidency in Hyvinkää, 1–4 July 2006. The meeting will serve as a follow-up to the Council Resolution of 25 November 2003 on the objectives of participation by and information of young people. The traditional Presidency youth event is integrated into this meeting.
The aim of the meeting is to strengthen the tripartite cooperation between youth administration, youth research and young people in European decision-making. A second goal is to explore the different forms and contents, both old and new, of young active citizenships through discussions based on keynote and kick-start speeches and background documents. Various memberships offered to young people by societies and communities, including the global level, as well as obstacles to such memberships will be analysed. The way to better organise dialogue between those who are active citizens and actors in the youth field will also be discussed. In order to reach this goal, we invite two kinds of youth delegates to the meeting, those who
represent youth organisations and those who represent new forms of active citizenship, a group, movement or network.
The theme of Young Active Citizenships can be broken down into the following three areas:
- Young Active Citizenships
- Democracy Education
- Openness, Transparency and Democracy in the EU Youth Policy
The seminar will consist of keynote speeches, discussions in the working groups and a political part. As shown above, the theme of the meeting can be divided into three main sub-themes. These sub-themes correlate with the keynote speeches as well as with the topics of the 12 different working groups.
The meeting is organised by the Finnish Ministry of Education, the Finnish Youth Research Network, the Finnish Youth Co-operation - Allianssi and the City of Helsinki Youth Department.
For more information go to http://www.citizenships.fi/
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