The YVOTE2009 campaign lauching conference took place from the 14st to the 21st of September 2008 in Vienna.
The main goal of the conference was to create the fundamental document of the whole campaign, called Youth Agenda 2009. It contains the opinions and proposals of young Europeans considering different policies of European Union that effect their everyday life and it will serve as a guideline for the upcoming more than 12 Y Vote conventions. During the one week 4 working groups were set up and were facilitated by the members of the Y Vote Coordination Team. They workshops were held simultaneously for 5 days and the participants discussed such topics as democracy, education, citizenship, multiculturalism, regionalism, EU and the World, mobility, migration and EU social
model.
Besides group working, the participants of Youth Agenda 2009 conference had interesting open debates with 6 Members of the European Parliament, highly involved in youth policies in European level. What is more they had pleasure to met and share the best practices with Austria YNGO representatives;
Patrick Cosgrave, leader of the Irish campaign on parliamentary elections “Rock the Vote Ireland” and Bettina Schwarzmayr, president of European Youth Forum, the biggest European umbrella organization for European YNGOs, talked about the youth policies made on European level.
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