Youth opinion on the future of Europe: AEGEE-Europe launches "Europe on Track" project
Where is Europe headed? What can young people expect from the Europe of tomorrow?
These questions have been of great concern for many young Europeans recently. In order to find answers, AEGEE-Europe (European Students' Forum) is launching the "Europe on Track" project in the fall of 2012. In the framework of this initiative, six young Europeans will travel the continent by train at the end of 2012, and in the course of one month, gather the answers to these, and further questions, through photography, videos and interviews.
More information about the initiative: http://www.aegee.org and http://www.facebook.com/EuropeOnTrack
The "Europe on Track" project was launched to advocate for a better future for European youth, and to capture young people's vision of the Europe of the future by the end of 2020, as well as provide a snapshot of AEGEE and its members. The main topic of the project is "The Europe I want for the future", involving young people around the continent in discussing the current situation and their own prospects. At a time when the idea of European integration is being questioned, and young people's future prospects have become hazy, AEGEE considers it fundamental to give voice to the young generation, in order to take their opinion, their realities and their wishes into account.
"We will give six young people the opportunity to travel the whole European continent. They will be reporting about their experiences through social media and blogging, channels used by youth as impartial loudspeakers, which allow them to communicate with greater audiences, and which provide them with the possibility to communicate with an independence from traditional media. This will allow them to promote and spread the idea of a common European identity among youth." says Pavel Zborník, European Institutions and Communications Director of AEGEE-Europe about "Europe on Track". After being present at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, AEGEE puts emphasis on sustainability in this project as well, as the six ambassadors will travel Europe in a "green" way, by train. By documenting every detail of their journey, they will later enable others to reach conclusions and find ways to remedy the situation, and through creative and innovative approaches they will promote the vision of young people through the social and other online media.
Applications for taking part in the project as an ambassador – travelling and reporting about young people's opinions – are open until 20th October 2012. More information can be found on AEGEE-Europe's official website (http://www.aegee.org) and the project's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/EuropeOnTrack).
This initiative is possible thanks to AEGEE-Europe's partner, Interrail.
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