Act local – connect European – think global! There is a lot going on in the network of Generation Europe – The Academy. Here you can find recent updates and reports on activities in our network.
What defines a public space? Who sets its rules, who has access, and who remains invisible? With these questions in mind, 30 young people from Germany, Italy and Greece came together for an international youth encounter in Larissa. Under the title ‘Youth Commons: Access (not) granted’, they spent almost two weeks transforming the Greek city into a laboratory for youth participation and artistic expression.
How can peace be established and sustained in Europe? Thirty young people from Germany, Italy and Finland explored this question. The outcome of this international youth encounter: impressive works of art, a podcast episode and plenty of motivation for future projects.
How can young people use public space to raise their concerns? Who decides which stories become visible in a city? And what changes when young people from three countries take action together? These are some of the questions that will kick off the first youth encounter in the new programme phase of Generation Europe – […]
Verse & Vision is a youth exchange project that brought together three organisations from the network of Generation Europe – The Academy: Kids in Action (Greece), DUGA e.V. (Ukraine) and Witer e.V. (Germany). The three organisations have jointly developed a set of tools and methods using art to remain resilient in difficult times – and produced really impressive artworks!
Ready, steady, youth encounter! The local groups organised by Mediencooperative Steinfurt (Germany) and DUGA (Ukraine) travelled to their project partners in Telsiai, Lithuania. Since all three organisations are big fans of wilderness-based experiences, the programme and methodological flow of the camp was designed according to the principles of outdoor education.
After Italy and Portugal, now it’s Germany: for the third time in this programme phase, the local groups from Bochum, Rome and Évora have met for an international youth encounter. This year’s meeting took place in the centre of the Ruhr region in Germany. The young people documented their experiences in their own Encounter Newspaper. We are very happy to republish their report online.
For twelve days, the small Hungarian town of Nagykovácsi was the centre of an international youth encounter. The gathering brought together young people from the local groups organised by Jugendakademie Walberberg (Bornheim, Germany), Szubjektív (Budapest, Hungary), and Maximilian-Kolbe-Haus DMK (Gdańsk, Poland). Here is a report written by Tamara Arany-Tóth, Salah Rakti, Hanna Nowak and Silvio Żerebiec.
Changing the world with art and creativity: for twelve days, the local group from Krea Youth Club in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) welcomed young artists from Italy and Greece to a youth encounter. As part of Generation Europe – The Academy, the international group explored how young people can make use of their power in democratic systems. The result of the intensive work is a set of spectacular artistic performances, which was presented to the public at the end of the programme. The title of the project: ‘Feel Use Keep Power’.
Getting involved locally while networking across Europe is a central goal of Generation Europe – The Academy. 35 young people from Barcelona (Spain), Munich (Germany) and Mragowo (Poland) are currently demonstrating how this is working out: They are gathering for twelve days in the Polish town Mrągowo on the edge of the Masurian Lake District. Now they have met with city mayor Jakub Doraczyński to discuss urgent issues.
Kokkola is a town on the west coast of Finland and the capital of the province of Keski-Pohjanmaa. From 20 to 31 July, committed young people from three European countries met here to spend twelve days exchanging ideas, planning and learning from each other. Here you can read their report about this thrilling and intensive youth encounter.