Generation Europe Foundation provides a communication platform for young people, public and private stakeholders. We create dialogue through a range of publishing activities, online polls, youth opinion surveys and events.
We recognise that society is changing quickly, and that young people must learn to address a growing and fast-changing range of issues which are not covered by the school curriculum. Such issues include online safety, personal health, consumer choices, new opportunities for mobility, the growing inter-connectedness of the world, climate challenges and citizenship rights.
We specialise in bringing these questions into the classroom in such a way that teachers are happy to integrate them in their lesson plans. Since 1995, this has taken the form of a school diary, which is accompanied by a Teachers’ Guide that suggests how teachers might cover these new issues.
Our flagship publication is the Europa Diary, currently funded by the European Commission. Published in 25 languages, it is distributed to over 23,000 secondary schools throughout the European Union, in Serbia and in Turkey (total print run: over 4 million copies).
A diary for primary school students (ages 8-10) is also available.
We publish polls and youth opinion surveys conducted on a range of themes. These can be both on and offline and are conducted amongst students, teachers and young professionals to evaluate their views on products, publications and current affairs issues. Response rates on average are 15% - depending on the time available and efforts deployed by our network of partners.
Participation in the target countries is usually enhanced by the involvement of the Generation Europe Foundation Ambassadors and their local networks.
The Generation Europe Foundation thematic “events/summits” bring young delegates to Brussels for debate, discussion and action! We aim to bring all stakeholders to the table including other global youth organisations in order to create dynamic and realistic debates that focus on output which is then fed back to the public and private sectors.
Our online community of 6,000 active participants and Generation Europe Foundation Ambassadors are a relay for the events, as is our bi-monthly online magazine covering a range of issues of interest to young people. The next major event will be the Green Entrepreneurship summit in December 2010 under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Industry and Entrepreneurship, several private sector companies, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and media partners.
We coordinate complex pan-European projects – regularly funded by the EU institutions – which involve database development and logistics management.
