The activities of EUNET with regard to the European elections 2014 had been presented by Thomas Heckeberg on the occasion of the meeting of the Fédération Française des Maisons de l’Europe on March 22nd 2013 in Paris.

The presentation (in French) is now updated with working links to our new website.

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The EYCA wants to show the diversity of the events organised throughout Europe in the frame of the Europe Day and the Europe Week. May 9th is not only a celebration or a symbol, it is also the opportunity to debate and question EU policies and orientations, to discover EU cultures, to get informed about opportunities EU can offer…

The EYCA will collect information on public events organised in the frame of the Europe Day / Europe Week 2013 throughout Europe, publish them on its website and relay the information on social media.

If you organise or know events organised in your country/city, we’d be happy to hear about them! We have set up a form to gather information and we’d be thankful if you could take some minutes to fill in this form (in English or in your language) and let us know about the interested events you know of!

You can contact vladimir@ey2013-alliance.eu for any information.

EUNET is member of the European Year of Citizens Alliance (EYCA). The European Year of Citizens Alliance (EYCA) is an open network of European and national civil society organisations willing to promote active citizenship as a core element of the European democracy in the frame of the European Year of Citizens 2013.

The Alliance has adopted a Manifesto to express its political guidelines and common vision for a wide understanding of European citizenship. The Manifesto has been translated into several European languages.

Besides the plenary meetings, EUNET takes part in Working Group 1 “Participatory Citizenship and Civil Dialogue”. So far two meetings of the working group took place during the first three month of the year. The members of the group focused on obstacles of active citizenship and how to overcome them.

Please find below two (draft) documents as inspiration and food for thought for your own activities.

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General idea

The idea is to set up a blog to gather as many different voices as possible from young people who will be eligible to vote in the European election 2014 for the first time.

Many members of EUNET will do projects connected to the European elections within the next 12 month or will realize projects with young people who will be first time voters in May 2014 for the European Parliament. This blog project will not create something totally new but sets up a EUNET‐platform to show and multiply what youngsters have to say in different countries in local seminars, trainings and youth projects about the European elections. So the project will be more or less a collection of different voices from as many member organisations of EUNET as possible.

Aim of the project

By setting up this platform we will achieve different goals:

• We provide a public platform for first time voters to express their attitude and their opinion about the European election 2014
• We provide a public platform where other first time voters have the opportunity to learn about the views of their peers in different countries about the European election 2014 and compare them to their own
• We multiply the voice of first time voters to politicians and show them what young people think about the European election 2014
• We provide a tool for all members of EUNET which can be used in projects connected to the European elections, stimulating discussions, share different opinions etc.
• We set up a joint project in our network and work collaboratively with different member organisations thus strengthening the ties between the EUNET members and increase the network structure.
• We multiply the (local) work of the members of EUNET involved in the blog project and disseminate their European activities

Get yourself, your organisation and your participants involved and check out the document below on how it is done.