Materials

How to participate?

An interactive workshop to discover different ways of participating in society and becoming an active citizen!

Want more? Links to useful material

A lot of websites offer cool material for workshops, discussion formats, information and more. We have collected a few for you!

Have you ever wondered what the EU was like in the beginning? How was voting in the first EU elections in 1979? Either ask your own grandparents, or invite someone who experienced this time to a discussion round! Maybe an alumni remembers how the EU was like in the first years of AEGEE?

Citizenship Pizza WS

This workshop was created by the Civic Education Working Group of AEGEE-Europe. It engages the participants in a fun way to reflect on their own participation in society.

Europe Week Suggestion

You are interested in organising a whole week filled with European events? Here is our suggestion for how it could look like!

Street actions and other fun stuff

You think a panel discussion is boring? Or just too much work to organise? You want to reach more people? Here are a few ideas on what else you can do to reach people. Try it, and tell us how it went!

Simulating the EU

You want your participants to experience how the European elections work first-hand? Step into the shoes of a politician, organise a campaign and discuss a proposal in the parliament? Try this simulation!

Discussion Formats

Panel Discussion, Oxford Debate, or Fishbowl Discussion? You want to invite speakers but are not sure which format is suitable? Get inspiration here!

Fishbowl Discussion

Bored of panel discussions? A fishbowl discussion is good to generate interaction between participants and let them discuss a specific question. Only the people in the inner circle are allowed to speak, the outside listens!

How to use Slido?

This How-to guide is a summary of how to use the presentation tool Slido. It is a tool that allows your event audience to ask questions anonymously online.

How to invite a speaker?

For some events it is interesting to have an external speaker - to spice up your event with expertise, opinions and publicity. But how to find a good speaker? How to contact them?

Recommendations for interaction with Members of the European Parliament

Find here the results from the fishbowl discussion at the European Youth Event 2018 in Strassbourg, that the Y Vote team organised! They contain recommendations to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) but also to us, young people who want to contact MEPs.

Advocacy and Policy Workshop

Convince your mayor to make your wishes come true! Do you want to boost your social impact? AEGEE is a network of empowered cities, but do we really do advocacy in the locals? What can we get by implementing a policy and advocacy strategy inside your local?

No Democracy without Participation

This workshop aims to familiarize participants with participation in practice and the conflicts of interests that can arise when trying to find a compromise among a diverse amount of interest groups.

European Institutions – Advanced

The European Union and the concept about how it works is a complex system that we all heard about. But we need to understand it. How else can we “feel ever closer” to the EU? How can we have a critical look at it?

European Institutions – Basic

The European Union with its history and institutions is a complex system that we all heard about somehow, but we need to understand a little in order to really discuss its influence. After all, the EU institutions are the European peoples’ institutions.

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