... est le titre du manuel pour multiplicateurs de la formation politique qui vient de paraître aux éditions du Wochenschauverlag. 

Ce projet franco-allemand vise à transmettre aux jeunes des connaissances sur l'origine et la signification des valeurs européennes, les invite à y réfléchir et les familiarise avec l'idée européenne : quel rôle jouent les valeurs européennes pour chacun d'entre nous ? Que signifie vraiment le concept d'identité européenne ?

Cinq modules thématiques approfondissent les valeurs inscrites dans la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne comme socle commun aux Européens : l'égalité, la démocratie, la liberté, les droits de l'homme et l'Etat de droit.
Un sixième module présente les liens d'interdépendance entre ces valeurs : en quoi la valeur traitée peut-elle avoir une dimension européenne ? Dans quelle mesure cette valeur précise joue-t-elle un rôle déterminant dans la construction d'une identité européenne?

Networking European Citizenship Education

Conference: Networking for the European Parliament Elections 09. Projects - Partners – Perspectives

Strasbourg, France, 11-13 June, 2008

Location: European Parliament, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, CS 91024 / F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex

A conference organised by the german Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Institute voor Publiek en Politiek  (the Netherlands) and the Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

The conference is under the auspices of the European Parliament.

The European networking conference from 11–13 June, 2008, is planned to provide EU multipliers in the field of citizenship education with access to information and opportunities for exchange in the areas of existing and planned models, measures and projects for mobilising voters in 2009

EUNET will be present with an information stand which could, and should, also be used by our members. 

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The European Commission wants to increase citizens' involvement in the EU decision-making process.  In a Communication entitled 'Debate Europe - building on the experience of Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate', it puts forward a set of future actions to foster a general and permanent debate on the future of the European Union among people from all walks of life, at  both national and EU level.

Margot Wallström, Vice-President, Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy said: "The policies of the EU affect everyone's lives, whether through its Regulations on subjects such as mobile phone roaming charges or through the free movement of people or goods or any other of the EU's many achievements.  EU policies therefore need to be fully anchored in the political parties, in the national democratic traditions, and in the daily political dialogue. They need to be discussed and debated, whether in the town hall, in regional assemblies, national parliaments, on television shows or on the internet".

The European Commission will co-fund a number of civil society projects in 2008 and 2009 under Debate Europe - both at EU and national level. Besides further developing the most successful initiatives undertaken under Plan D since 2005, the Commission will shortly publish a call for proposals for new projects.

Debate Europe will:

• co-fund pan-European citizens' consultation projects managed by civil society organisations;
• promote actions at country level to enable citizens to debate their views and discuss them with local policy makers; complementing other European Commission programmes and events which promote active involvement of citizens in the legislative and decision-making process at EU level;
• offer a framework of cooperation between the European Commission and other EU institutions in reaching out to the citizens at large and breaking the divide between European and national politics;
• launch on-line networks which will bring together European, national and regional parliamentarians, journalists and other European opinion-makers to share information, knowledge and ideas on the EU;
• develop European Public Spaces in the capital cities of the Member States, where the Commission and the European Parliament together will accommodate exhibitions, debates, seminars and training sessions on EU matters
• go "even more local" by involving EU officials in activities at regional and local level; and
• increase the potential of the "Debate Europe" online discussion forum amongst Internet users. 

From April 2008 on, day in and day out,16 radio stations from 13 countries working in a consortium and 7 associate radio stations will co-produce and simultaneously broadcast programmes devoted to current affairs and society in the Europe of 27.

Broadcast daily, the programmes of this EUROPEAN network will include daily news reports, interviews, debates, magazines looking at subjects in greater depth and coverage of live events. The first broadcasts will go out in April 2008.

Commission proposes 2009 to become European Year of Creativity and Innovation

Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social and economic reasons. That is why the Commission has today on March 31^st 2008 adopted a proposal to declare 2009 the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

The Youth committee of EUNET has established a network (EUNET Youth) on Facebook.

The network is open to all jung people who want to get activly engaged in European topics.