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“Alternative Europe” within the framework of the Europawerkstatt (EWS) of the Junge Europäische Föderalisten (JEF)

The Junges Europawis­senschaftliches Netzwerk (JEN), the youth associ­ation of the Europawis­senschaftliches Netzwerk Deutschland (END), presented the idea of a pro-European network of science and civil society, which had previ­ously been developed in two separate workshops, at the Europe Workshop of the Junge Europäische Föder­al­isten (JEF)  in Berlin from December 2 to 4, 2016. The event, which was conceived as an uncon­ference, provided suffi­cient space for partic­i­pation, brain­storming and project planning and thus offered the oppor­tunity to further develop the envisaged project.

On the second day of the conference, we offered a challenge on the topic of “Brexit”, which was accepted by about twelve young Europe enthu­siasts. On the following Sunday morning, we moderated a discussion table that took up the big question of the first two JEN workshops in Berlin and Mannheim: How can we create space for a deeper cooper­ation of young, Europe-affine activists from science and civil society? Repre­sen­ta­tives of various organi­za­tions considered how this idea could be realized. They discussed which actors could be involved and which topics could be addressed and what the final outcome of such a networking process should look like. After one and a half hours of brain­storming and discussion, a rough roadmap was drawn up and presented to the more than 60 partic­i­pants of the Unconference.

The following goals were defined:

Target Groups:

Format: Series of events in 2017:

After the presen­tation of the project concept, all partic­i­pants and listeners were encouraged to submit their sugges­tions for topics. The following were mentioned among others: Data protection, social justice, coal phase-out, climate protection, EMU reform, mobility, European army, fisheries policy, equal oppor­tu­nities, digital Europe, rail networks in Europe, common tax policy, immigration law, democ­ratic Europe, asylum and migration policy, insti­tu­tional reforms (within the treaties), European networks.

We took the many ideas and sugges­tions with us into the Christmas break in order to turn it into a large joint project “Alter­native Europe!” in 2017. We are looking forward to seeing all partic­i­pants again soon for the kick-off event and to expanding the circle of active participants!