“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