Project details

Objective

The European Commission’s goal was to create and implement an initiative to enhance young people’s education, culture, mobility and access to the job market across Europe.

The solution

P.A.U. Education designed Youth on the Move using a community building strategy at the local level. Our main goal is to engage young people into open dialogue on mobility experiences with their peers, stakeholders and mobility prescribers. We have achieved that by organising two big events in Budapest and Bordeaux. Our events were created as two or three day festivals that gathered together associations and organisation active in mobility. We welcomed performance artists, debate leaders and involved main actors at European and national level. There was music, dance, debate and lots of participants.

Details

Due to the success of the first two events, we have been reappointed by the European Commission to implement the Youth on the Move communication campaign’s next phase, during 2011 and 2012. 

The second part of the project is still to be developed in other EU Member States capitals as follows: London (United Kingdom – 5 - 8 October 2011), Brno (The Czech Republic – 1 - 4 November 2011),  Tallinn (Estonia – 1 - 4 December 2011), Nicosia (Cyprus – 17 - 19 February 2012) and Helsinki (Finland – 26 - 27 May 2012).

The five national events will bring together local young people and give them the possibility to discover the opportunities available to them. We will have plenty of useful information for them, presented in a cool, interactive way. The ‘script’ says we will be participants in major national education fairs and we will organise cool cultural events in pararel.

The Youth on the Move campaign is organised in close cooperation with the EC representations and the National Authorities.

We have used, for the first time in EC projects, social networks in order to promote our national activities: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Iwiw (Hungary) and SkyRock (France).