Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss
The results are in. After an impressive 428 applications to take part in Your Europe, Your Say! (YEYS) 2016, 33 schools from 28 EU Member States and five candidate countries have been selected to take part. We are thrilled that so many young people have expressed interest in this exciting event, and we can’t wait to meet the winning schools and students in March.
Bessere Zukunftsaussichten für junge Menschen und die Unterstützung ukrainischer Kriegsopfer sind die beiden Themen des diesjährigen EWSA-Preises der Zivilgesellschaft.
Schülerinnen und Schülern aus weiterführenden Schulen in ganz Europa legten Věra Jourová, die als Vizepräsidentin der Europäischen Kommission für Werte und Transparenz zuständig ist, acht konkrete Vorschläge vor. Sie nahmen an der virtuellen Jugendveranstaltung „Your Europe, Your Say!“ (YEYS2022) teil, die dem Thema „Die Wahrheit über Lügen. Jugendliche entlarven Fake News und Desinformation“ gewidmet war. YEYS2022 wurde am 31. März und 1. April 2022 vom Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) ausgerichtet.
NEW DEADLINE : Applications are open until 2 December 2021
At the annual YEYS 2022 event, students from all over Europe will have their say on disinformation and fake news. The event will take place virtually between 31 March and 1 April 2022.
Students from 33 different countries will travel to Brussels in March 2020 to take part in a European Youth Summit on Climate. The event is organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and will follow the model of a United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP).
Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Ausgabe der Jugendplenartagung „Your Europe, Your Say“ (YEYS), die der Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss (EWSA) am 21./22. März veranstaltete, fand der Vorschlag, an europäischen Schulen ein Pflichtfach Europabildung einzuführen, um den Informationsstand der Bürgerinnen und Bürger im Hinblick auf die Ausübung ihres Wahlrechts zu verbessern, den meisten Zuspruch.
Better scrutiny and management of food waste, an internationally agreed European history curriculum to combat nationalism, and better knowledge of the EU via the creation of a European day for schools. These were the main recommendations made to policy-makers by the students who took part in Your Europe, Your Say! (YEYS) to overcome the challenges the EU is facing.
You are our present and future, and Europe needs you
: with these words, EESC Vice-President Gonçalo Lobo Xavier welcomed 99 young people to the yearly Your Europe, Your Say! event organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
33 schools from across Europe to come to Brussels to discuss the future of the EU. Today the EESC selected the schools which will be participating in this year's edition of Your Europe Your Say!, its flagship event for youth. In 2017, the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome will be the theme of the Committee’s annual "Your Europe, Your Say!" youth event, offering young people from around Europe the opportunity to share their ideas about the EU of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
According to Eurostat figures, in May 2016 there were 4,197 million unemployed young people (18.6%) in the EU-28. Although an improvement on the previous year (20.3%), the figure remains appalling and shows that the threat of a "lost generation", which has loomed large since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis, is still hanging dangerously over Europe. Despite this, businesses across the EU are struggling to find young people with the skills they need.
