Have you ever dreamed about crossing Europe by train? Are you an AEGEE enthusiast? Are you an idealist, convinced that each of us has something to share, and has the potential to bring a change to improve our future? Are you convinced that video, photography or writing are powerful tools to capture people’s voice?
Then this project might be what you are looking for.
The “Europe on Track” project will make your eyes smile! AEGEE-Europe, in collaboration with its partner, InterRail, is offering you a once in a lifetime opportunity. Along with our wish to build a stronger identity of our association, we are launching this project, which will enable us to capture young people’s vision of the Europe of the future, and provide a snapshot of AEGEE and its members.
In a nutshell, ”Europe on Track” consists of six people, divided into two groups of three, who will experience Europe, during one month, by travelling and meeting its young people and capturing significant moments of their lives.
Putting Europe ”back on track”?
The aim of the “Europe on Track” project is to capture the opinion of young people about the future of Europe.
In a time when the idea of Europe is being questioned, we think it is important to ask its youth what their position is and what their expectations from the Europe of tomorrow are. As a youth platform, we think it is fundamental to give voice to the young generation in order to take their opinions, their realities and their wishes into account. The main topic will therefore be “The Europe I want for the future”, giving young people the space to share what the Europe they dream of looks like.
We believe that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the six ambassadors, who will be given the chance to explore Europe in a very human way, by inducing intercultural meetings and discussions with local people. Their mission will be to talk, film, shoot, and exchange opinions with the young people and AEGEE members they will meet along their journey, and to gather enough content in order to develop several materials for AEGEE. One will be a very rich and up-to-date promotional video for AEGEE, another one will gather the voice of European youth.
How will it work?
Participants of the project will travel through AEGEE locals
Six people will be travelling across Europe, through cities where AEGEE is present, and capture the expectations of youth for the future of Europe. In order to cover as many countries, regions and cities as possible, they will be divided into two teams of three people. The two teams will cover different geographical areas.
The selected people will be offered one InterRail Pass each, and together with their two other travel mates they will start a journey which will last one month.
AEGEE-Europe will be following the travelers on a daily basis, in order to receive their feedback, as well as to help them with logistic details.
Each team will be, of course, requested to update the Network on a daily basis, through a blog and a Facebook page which will be created for this purpose.
I want to participate!
Of course you want to! To do so, you only need…
– TIME ( one free month, 30 days in a row) before the end of 2012.
– CREATIVE SKILLS (photography, filming, or writing). AEGEE-Europe is not in measure to provide you with material (camera etc), therefore you will be working with your own technical equipment (camera etc.)
– SOCIAL SKILLS and WILL-POWER: you will meet a lot of people during your journey, and in order to gather quality material, we need you to be an entrepreneur, and have an ability to easily establish contact with people. Likewise, as every journey, you will go through difficult moments. The team members have to be convinced that this is the project of their life!
Convinced? You just need to send us your application by 20th of October at http://goo.gl/eZMd1.
Written by Lucille Rieux, AEGEE-Toulouse & Comité Directeur