The ambition of the EUROTHON project (European Hackathon: shaping youth ideas) is to revitalise European youth activism as the cornerstone of local sustainability and inclusive EU renewal. In a world where the creative potential of young people is underestimated, the EUROTHON Platform Modules and the European Ambassadors Toolkit – produced to help young people take up activism on their own – truly reflect a new vision of sustainable and digital European active citizenship.
The EUROTHON platform includes 5 free online modules (How to Become a Change-maker; United in Diversity; Save the Planet; Social Entrepreneurship is the way; Be an European Ambassador), and brings together maps, socio-cultural analyses and videos on on the European Union and its different opportunities for young people passionate about environmental sustainability and social inclusion issues. On the other hand, the Toolkit for Ambassadors and Influencers (which is currently being finalised) lists a number of practical indications on how to pursue active citizenship, providing concrete tools on issues such as event management, social media, and finding European opportunities.
To support and disseminate these results, both the last project partnership meeting and the EUROTHON International Multiplier Event took place in Athens on October 24th and 25th. Bringing together the 8 partners from Italy (E-Medine and PRISM), Spain (KVeloce), Belgium (Institute for Erasmus Peace Solutions), Cyprus (Eurosuccess), Turkey (21.yy eğitimciler derneği) and Romania (CPIP), the Greek partner AKEP organised an enriching meeting between young people and local stakeholders to discuss the impact of the project on European and Greek civil society in.
The topics discussed were environmental sustainability, transversal European opportunities, international mobility, active citizenship in local contexts, and of course the mobility experience offered by the EUROTHON project to 15 young European ambassadors, chosen within in the partnership countries, who participated to a training held in Nicosia (Cyprus) at the beginning of October.
The next step will be the organisation of the EUROTHON Multiplier Event in Palermo: it is planned to be a moment of knowledge exchange on issues related to sustainable youth active citizenship and about the numerous possibilities offered by the European Union to apply it in local contexts.
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