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The European Youth Week took place from November 2 to 6 in Brussels and gathered together more than a hundred young people from all corners of Europe, among them one AEGEEan in the International Youth NGO delegation, Ildikó Ferencsik from AEGEE-Budapest. I also had the chance to join the last day of this event, to the political debate, where there were young people and parliementers, such as Jan Figel(Commissioner responsible for education, training, culture and youth), debating about the whole week and deciding on which topics to focus for the future, involving the youth opinion. Ildiko and I have approach the parliementers, and introduced them to our projects in AEGEE, and also talked with our current patrons and updated them about the latest news.
Below you can find the article of Ildiko about this whole week:
The event was organised by the European Commission and the European Parliament to celebrate the 20th anniversary of European programmes for youth (Youth in Action) and to contribute, as part of the structured dialogue with young people, to the discussions on the future direction of EU youth policies. Also it aimed to close the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and to prepare the next framework of co-operation in the youth field for the next period (Open Method of Coordination).
The participants were working on specific youth policy fields and during the political debates they had the chance to present their conclusions to the representatives of EU Institutions, including Mr. Ján Figel (Commissioner responsible for education, training, culture and youth).
http://www.youthweek.eu/european-youth-week-in-brussels/conclusions.html
The event was a great occasion to meet MEPs who are the patrons of the Y Vote 2009 campaign, to build up further cooperation with new partners from the European Parliament, European Youth Forum, youth organisations and national youth councils.