The SOLIDARITY Tour, conducted by Confrontations Europe throughout the year 2019, aimed at strenghtening the active participation of various young citizens from 8 European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Serbia).
During participative and intercultural seminars and workshops in Lille, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Athens and Belgrade, these young participants debated and issued recommendations on various subjects at the EU’s political agenda, promoting solidarity and concerning directly young European citizens (integration in the labour market, mobility, asylum and immigration, democracy, values of the EU, enlargement…).
The project was concluded by a Final Conference at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris, and gathered the young participants of the « Solidarity Group », as well as young people from Ile-de-France coming with their respective high schools or associations.
A methodology guide and a manifesto gathering the young participants’ concrete recommendations were produced and are available by clicking on the icons below.
For multilingualism purposes, and for the project to reach beyond the countries having directly benefited from it, the manifesto’s abstract is also available in the following languages:
Finnish / Suomi (translation courtesy of Juuso Järviniemi)
German / Deutsch (translation courtesy of Bastian De Monte)
Italiano / Italian (translation courtesy of Giovanni Perrotta)
Malti / Maltese (translation courtesy of Kimberly Zammit)
Romanian / Română (translation courtesy of Radu Dumitrescu)
Spanish / Español (translation courtesy of Xesc Mainzer Cardell)
SOLIDARITY TOUR | CHRONICLE :
Kickoff event : Lille (France), October 2018
Programme : Solidarity Tour #1, Warsaw (Poland), February 2019
Article : Les jeunes et l’Europe : quel avenir pour le travail ?
Programme : Solidarity Tour #2, Prague (Czech Republic), April 2019
Article : Solidarity Tour en étape à Prague : permettre aux jeuens d’exprimer leur européanité.
Programme : Solidarity Tour #3 (Budapest, Hungary), September 2019
Article : Solidarity Tour en étape à Budapest. Jeunes et travail : entre propositions et désenchantement.
Programme : Solidarity Tour #4 (Athens, Greece), October 2019
Article : Solidarity Tour en étape à Athènes : Mieux comprendre les migrations.
Programme : Solidarity Tour #5 (Belgrade, Serbia), November 2019
Article : Solidarity Tour en étape à Belgrade : à la rencontre d’un pays candidat à l’adhésion.
Programme : Solidarity Tour #6 (Paris, France), December 2019
Media : Edito | Euradio
Participants’ testimonies : « What has the Solidarity Tour meant to you? »
Solidarity was conducted in partnership with Europeum Institute, Codemos and Coexister Europe, and was supported by the ‘Europe for Citizens Programme’ of the European Commission, by the Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, by the Fondation Hippocrène and by OFAJ / DFJW.
All projects funded under the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme can be found on the European Commission’s dedicated website.
