Encourage and empower young people in Europe to make informed choices at European Parliament elections in 2009.

Idea

Flash Eurobarometer 162: Post European Elections 2004 Survey, 2004

Objectives

To empower first-time voters, so they can:

• develop their opinion on important social issues and try to bring it in the electoral debate

• share the best practices of youth participation in democratic processes

• contribute to a high turn out of young people in EP elections in 2009

Street Actions, oriented towards general audience,

Campus Actions, oriented towards students,

Arena Actions, connecting the message to sports and popular culture,

Spotlight Actions, spreading the message towards media,

Voice Actions, facilitating dialogue with politicians.

Methods

• Education• Creativity • Mobility

10 TOPICS - Knowledge

• Citizenship• Multiculturalism• Migration• EU and the World

10 TOPICS - Identity

• Regionalism

• EU Social Model

• Employment

10 TOPICS - Development

Y Vote 2009 Campaign

Intercultural Dimension

Y Vote Launching Conference

Vienna, September 14-21, 2008

Y Vote on Citizenship

Groningen, December 6-13, 2008

Y Vote on EU and the World

Poznan, January 9-15, 2009

Y Vote on Multiculturalism

Ljubljana, January 20-26, 2009

Bologna, February 1-7, 2009

Y Vote on Jobs and Mobility

Y Vote on Creativity

Munich, February 21-27, 2009

Y Vote on Knowledge and Employment

Riga, March 18-24, 2009

Y Vote on Education

Budapest, April 6-12, 2009

Y Vote on EU Social Model

Porto, April 27 – May 3, 2009

Y Vote on Migration

Cologne, May 10-16, 2009

Y Vote on Regionalism

Sofia, May 20-26, 2009

Y Vote Final Convention

Cagliari, May 28-June 1., 2009

Youth Agenda 2009

• 110 applications - 40 participants

• 6 MEPs

• Patrick Cosgrave , „Rock the Vote” Ireland

• Bettina Schwarzmayr, President YFJ

• YNGO Reprentatives - JEF Austria

Y Vote 2009 Coordination Team

Jurriën Bakker,Content ManagerAEGEE-Eindhoven

Cezary Szczepaniuk, Financial and Administrative

ManagerAEGEE-Lublin

Y Vote 2009 Coordination Team

Thijs de Wolff,Formats ManagerAEGEE–Utrecht

Veronika Braun,Communications Manager

AEGEE-Passau

Ildikó Ferencsik, Project Coordinator and PR ManagerAEGEE-Budapest

Dragan Stojanovski, Project Founder

AEGEE-Europe

Y Vote 2009 Coordination Team

Fleur Stadhouders, The Netherlands

Giovanni Soffietti, Italy

Zsanett Czifrus, Hungary

Efi Chronopoulou, Greece

Thomas Leszke, Germany

Diana Ferreira, Portugal

Agata Gurzawska, Poland

National Managers

Partners

European Movement

EurActiv

Board of Patrons

André Brie, MEPAndrew Duff, MEPAngelika Beer, MEPBrian Simpson, MEPChrista Prets, MEPClaude Turmes, MEPDagmar Roth-Behrendt, MEPDushana Zdravkova, MEPElisabetta Gardini, MEPEmine Bozkurt, MEPEoin Ryan, MEP

45Members of the

European Parliament

Board of Patrons

Esther de Lange, MEPFabio Ciani, MEP

Filip Kaczmarek, MEPFiona Hall, MEP

Gisela Kallenbach, MEPGrażyna Staniszewska, MEP

Helga Trüpel, MEPHolger Krahmer, MEP

Istvan Szent-Iványi, MEPJacek Saryusz Wolski, MEPJan Jerzy Kułakowski, MEP

Board of Patrons

Jean Lambert, MEPJohn Attard-Montalto, MEPKarin Resetarits, MEPKlaus Hänsch, MEPKurt Joachim Lauk, MEPMargaritis Schinas, MEPMarie Panayotopoulos-Cassitou, MEPMarkus Ferber, MEPMartin Schulz, MEPMathieu Grosch, MEP

Board of Patrons

Mechild Rothe, MEP Michael Cramer, MEPNorbert Glante, MEP

Ramona Nicole Mănescu, MEPRichard Corbett, MEPRuth Hieronymi, MEP

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, MEPSophie in 't Veld, MEP

Urszula Gacek, MEPWolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, MEP

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