Our goal is to raise awareness about European Citizenship not only in our region or country, but in other countries as well. In order to reach our goal we created informative "Facebook" page about our project and the challenge for participants will be to get at least 1000 likes. Young people between the ages of 15 and 25 constitute a fifth of the world’s population. While they are often involved i
n informal, politically relevant processes, such as activism or civic engagement, they are not formally represented in national political institutions such as parliaments and many of them do not participate in elections. Considering issues like why youth does not concern about European politics, why just a few of them vote in the European Parliament elections or why just a few of them involve in the European initiatives, we decided to examine this problems in a deeper level. We made an assumption that it could be influenced by lack of knowledge about the history and development of European citizenship. Main goal is to understand European community and the concept of European citizenship, to discuss how this concept has changed since the ancient Greek to nowadays, to encourage consider ourselves as a part of this community and, most importantly, to make feel the spirit of Europe.
5 key objectives of the project:
1) to discuss the key historical turning-points of citizenship in Europe like ancient Greek democracy, French revolution or development of human rights;
2) to analyze how changed the European values; which of the them are relevant nowadays; which of them are new or are going to emerge;
3) to discuss modern European citizenship in four dimensions: political, economical, cultural and social;
4) to promote awareness how individual actions may influence those four sections of citizenship;
5) to think about the future scenarios of European citizenship.
