European Youth Event set to return to Strasbourg next year!

The European Parliament has today announced that following the success of last year’s event, it will be opening its doors for the second European Youth Event (EYE) in May 2016. The European Youth Forum is delighted to be a partner in the second EYE and to bring its successful YO!Fest back to Strasbourg.

EYE will bring together 7,000 young Europeans on 20th and 21st May at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, under the banner ‘Together we can make a change’. Young people will meet, debate and interact with each other and decision-makers on the following five themes:

• War and Peace: Perspectives for a Peaceful Planet
• Apathy or Participation: Agenda for a Vibrant Democracy
• Exclusion or Access: Crackdown on Youth Unemployment
• Stagnation or Innovation: Tomorrow’s World of Work
• Collapse or Success: New Ways for a Sustainable Europe

Following our successful co-operation on the first EYE in 2014, the European Youth Forum will again be a core partner in organising this important event. We will bring our highly successful YO!Fest to Strasbourg (for its 7th edition and 2nd in Strasbourg), combining high-level political and educational activities with a festival atmosphere including live music and circus performances.

The Youth Forum is delighted that youth organisations – including our members – will yet again be at the heart of the EYE. And we hope that they will take up the challenge to help us shape the event, particularly the YO!Fest. We aim to, again, bring the YO!Fest to life with the buzzing YO!Village, a village for young people by young people, developed by the participating organisations.

For a glimpse into last year’s EYE experience check out our after movie:

For more information and to stay up to date on EYE 2016, check out its website and follow its Twitter and Facebook accounts.