Dear Madam, Sir,

Please find below the latest AEGEE-Europe Press Release concerning the new Project of our Association: Youth and Globalisation.
Shall you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to adress us with them.

Yours sincerely

Meg Chudzik

AEGEE-Europe
Vice-President / Public Relations

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Youth and Globalisation - let's get started!
 

"Youth and Globalisation" is the name of the AEGEE Yearplan Project launched within the framework of "Europe in the World" - the leading topic for AEGEE activities in the year 2003. The idea of this project evolved from the feeling that today's students - the decision-makers of tomorrow - need to raise their voice on the effects of globalisation. Within the framework of the project we will investigate the effects of globalisation from five different but interrelated angles: economics, politics, culture, geocommunication and civil society. These approaches offer a natural way to look at this highly debated matter.  

The "Youth and Globalisation" project aims at raising awareness among students on current issues related to globalisation in Europe; surveying and evaluating the opinion of students on globalisation and its effects on European society; disseminating the opinion of European students; contributing to the clarification of the role of the European Union concerning issues connected to globalisation with the help of a position paper drafted on the basis of the results of the project. We would like to stress that this project does not intend to support any of the views on the issue, neither pro- nor contra-globalisation.

The project starts with a survey, which will be distributed in universities all over Europe, in order to get an overview about students' knowledge on and interest in the phenomenon of globalisation. Its results are intended to form the backbone of all later events and discussions. The universities participating in the distribution and collection of the questionnaires will have an opportunity to process the results themselves in the form of local debates, mini conferences, round-table discussions or other alternative activities connected to the subject. The survey will also serve as a basis for the discussions of the Study Meetings. Five such meetings, each focusing on one of the pillars mentioned above, will take place this summer in various locations in Europe, with the aim to further develop and deepen the thematic content of the project and to prepare the World Youth Summit.

The summit, which will take place in December, represents the highlight of the project and will be the closure of the whole series of events. It aims at gathering youth leaders from all over the world who will meet to process the results of the project and discuss a possible position paper on the alternative scenarios for globalisation. It will be organized by AEGEE-Europe in strategic partnership with other international youth organisations. For more information please contact:




Ms. Meg Chudzik
AEGEE-Europe Vice-President Public Relations
at [log in to unmask] or call +32-2- 245.23.00
Information about AEGEE-Europe: http://www.aegee.org
More about the project: http://www.aegee.org/globalyouth

 

 

 

 

 

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