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Early November 2005, Köpenick, a suburb of Berlin. Here, for three days, 141 young people

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from 41 European countries held a passionate debate about a burning question on their continent

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– racism. One of the participants was Leila, a British girl of Somali origin. One momentous

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event brought about her presence in Berlin.

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The reason I'm here is because of the bombings that has happened in London in July. The Somali

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name became under the spotlight of the media. And what we've done is a very active young

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group of Somalis who never met before got together in one room and decided we had to

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do something together.

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This small group undertook various initiatives to rebuild their image with the public in

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London. Artists, singers and poets rallied to the cause. There was significant press

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coverage and Leila succeeded at the same time in gaining the respect of her own community.

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In Berlin, everyone present has found ongoing discrimination in European society. During

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the conference, everybody chose a particular theme. Leila's was Islamophobia.

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The reason I chose this group that talked about the topic of Islamophobia is because

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it's something that me and my community are faced with every day. It's something that

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we have to go and defend ourselves. My sister was attacked at a bus stop, verbally attacked

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because she was wearing a scarf and she was Somali.

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Called Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance and co-organised by the European Commission

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this conference promoted exchange and encouraged young people to participate at a European

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level.

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It was such an intense subject and distressing subject I think for all of us because sometimes

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it really hits home. And I think a lot of anger came out sometimes and in the afternoon

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I think we got to the stage where we were fed up and tired, physically, mentally tired

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and you feel God. It was like being in a war in that room.

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For Leila, it was a chance to access another dimension.

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I have to say I'm very honoured actually to be within a meeting where everybody comes

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from different backgrounds, even though it's only Europe, but it's really big. And I was

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downstairs at a big meeting where I was just looking around thinking, wow, we all speak

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different language, we all come from different cultures, we all have different opinions.

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This is hard work.

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After an intense heated debate, a declaration was presented to political decision makers,

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listing measures that young people would like to take or implement themselves.

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We believe that young people can play a significant part in improving the situation by personally

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taking an active stand on all levels, from local to international, from the decision

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making to implementation of concrete measures.

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I'd like to thank you all very warmly for your commitment. Thank you very, very much.

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Everybody I think wants to know what's going to happen next. Is this going to be taken?

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Are we going to see results? So this is, I mean, could anyone answer that question for

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us? Because I think we put so much hard work, we want to see some results.

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While you were working, I was not, you know, just sitting there and being lazy. No, I was

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also working and I was also developing an action plan. And I'm going to present you

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this action plan now, an action plan for the implementation.

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For the European Commission, the fight against racism and xenophobia will remain a priority

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for the years to come.

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One of the things I'm going to take back with me is give myself a chance to learn more

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every day, because coming to this conference, I've actually learned a lot more from people

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with the work they're doing. It gave me...

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I wish, you know, we were on the world newspaper today about this conference. I mean, can you

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imagine if the whole world knew about this conference now? How it would affect people

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and anyone in the train would say, wow, this is great, this is happening. We need to find

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a certain media that would always show the positive side.

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European Youth Week starts at the beginning of December 2005. Here in Freiburg, the European

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Commission's youth program will be a main feature, as it will be everywhere in Europe.

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Marion is 22. Like a hundred or so other young Germans, she's taking part in the Europeers

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project. Her aim is to let her generation know how they can benefit from European programs.

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Marion knows what she's talking about because she herself was helped by the youth program.

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I always wanted to do something after my baccalaureate, before going to university. I needed a break.

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After 13 years at school, always learning, always being passive. And at university, it's

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more of the same thing. You sit there and somebody tells you something. And that's why

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I wanted to do something practical with my own hands and to travel a bit.

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The European Voluntary Service offered her the chance to work at an institution in England

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looking after disabled children.

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I learned lots of things, including very practical things, like learning English for a start

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and really well, because I spoke English all the time. It was simple, there was no alternative

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and it was fantastic.

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On her return from England, Marion decided to go to university to study English and German

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literature. Marion's passionate about learning and getting involved. She's not only joined

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a theatre review group, but also a local radio station. All this, of course, on a voluntary basis.

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Why am I a volunteer? I think that when you are serious about something and give something

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to other people, your time, for example, and you look after people, you get something

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in return. But that also depends on the way you give.

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So on top of all her voluntary activities, Marion's busy at a European level with the

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Europeas Project.

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What we do is the same all over Germany. There are a hundred volunteers in their hometowns

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or where they're studying or just wherever they are at the moment. These young people

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go into schools, youth clubs and talk about their experiences and give information too.

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I should like to talk to Mrs. Stella, if that's possible. She asked me to call her back about

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the event in December, the peer-to-peer on Europe.

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OK, thanks.

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Informing people is a really big step. It takes experience and a lot of time.

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Informing people is a really big step. It takes experience. It's part of what we have to do.

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I need to discuss that with my colleague who's coming too, but we'll be back in touch about it.

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Great. Thanks very much. Bye.

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Tschüss Peter, tschüss.

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Marion is not the only Europea in Freiburg. She met four girls who are now her friends

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at a national training course for the project.

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During European Youth Week, Marion and the others will run information sessions.

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Today they're looking at the room which they'll use for their presentation.

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When you think how great it is that Europe is so small in terms of its surface area,

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but at the same time it has so much to offer from every point of view.

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People, cultures, landscapes.

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To me, being European is being part of a whole.

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Being part of a whole.

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Especially because in Italian cinema everything happens in Rome or Milan.

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How did Luca get started?

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I did European voluntary service in Madrid for six months.

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It was a really great experience.

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And I was able to produce some video clips for up and coming bands.

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Back in Italy, because I had worked artistically in the cinema,

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I presented a future capital project to the European Union called Cinema Anch'io.

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Future capital is an initiative of the European Commission's youth program.

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It's designed to be a prolongation of European voluntary service.

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The objective is for young people to profit from everything they've learned during their voluntary service abroad

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and once they're back home, to allow others to benefit from it.

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Cinema Anch'io is soon going to become a cultural association for independent film production.

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The aim is to offer what I call artistic rights to everyone.

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Everyone who wants to learn about cinema.

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Cinema Anch'io offers free training in cinema for young people.

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It was at one of those courses that Luca met Sonia

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and offered her the chance to produce the film Danza la Conscienza.

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The film tells the story of a young French girl who moves from France to Italy.

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How her thinking changes and how she gets over a certain number of obstacles.

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We held casting sessions to find the actors.

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Lots of people responded and were interested in working as an actor.

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Even though they knew they would have to work for free, they were very keen.

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Directly and indirectly, the project was a success.

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Directly and indirectly, the project involved more than 500 people.

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Imagine the cultural impact it had in this post-industrial city.

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I realized that in my town, as I'm sure in many others in Italy and other countries,

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lots of people wanted to find out about cinema and do some film work.

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But there are very few opportunities.

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For his film, Luca approached the cinema commission for the Piedmont region.

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He received aid in the form of shooting equipment.

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Let's go to the film commission.

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How was the shooting?

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It's finished. I'm here to show you the trailer.

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When Luca came to the office, we liked his film,

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which was more interesting than the average one we see,

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because of its European dimensions.

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On this November evening, in 2005, some of the islanders

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saw Luca on the seashore 맛있 aubergine.

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But they didn't know where he lived,

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and were keen to know where he was going.

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On this November evening, in 2005, some of the actors and technicians

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are getting together at the editor's place to take a first look at the website.

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I think there is a place for young people in Europe.

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I cannot compare today's Europe with yesterday's,

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because I am young, and I do not know how things were before.

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But today I would like to put everything in place,

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to get on with what I like doing, making films,

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and to offer others the chance to do the same,

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especially other young people.

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This is Stockholm, where Nicolas has just been at a trendy party for a magazine launch.

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To get home to the north of Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic Circle,

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he needs to take a plane.

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It's 3.30 p.m. when he lands, and it's already dark.

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So far, you might think that Nick is just another young guy.

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After all, he lives in what's called here a collective.

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That's to say, a communal apartment that he shares with his brother and other friends.

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And, like many other young people in northern Sweden, he plays floorball.

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But appearances can be deceptive, because Nick is far from ordinary.

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Here, people traditionally work in the wood and paper sector,

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but Nick has decided to go his own way.

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At just 23 years old, he runs the biggest advertising agency in the region.

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He has been working in the wood and paper sector since he was a child.

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He has been working in the wood and paper sector since he was a child.

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Helicopter is a full-service advertising agency.

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We have seven employees.

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We are a very young office and very go-ahead.

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We have ideas.

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We know the local market very well.

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But we have also worked on the design of decorations

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for floorball competitions at the international level.

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That's helicopter?

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That's helicopter.

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But how has this astonishing young man achieved all this?

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Nick had the benefit of training given by the European Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Network,

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supported by the European Commission.

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He started a small company and published a book

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giving advice to young people who were about to leave the parental home.

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We wanted to do something serious.

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And then we began by doing a market study on toilet paper

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to find out which was the best.

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The book, which was both practical and funny,

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not only appealed to the general public,

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but also to the Swedish jury for the Best Entrepreneurial Initiative Prize.

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I was invited to lecture at various companies and schools.

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After a while I said to myself,

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perhaps I can get paid for that.

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I asked for 500, 1,000, 2,000, 4,000 Swedish kronor,

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and the people paid it.

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There was a time when I got lots of offers,

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interesting and fun things.

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I always said yes.

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My strategy was to say yes,

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to work in a big carpet warehouse,

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selling things by the square meter,

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and then another job.

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Six months later, a helicopter called me,

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and I said yes.

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By always saying yes to what life has offered him,

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Nick has become the boss of Helicopter.

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As one of Piteå's celebrities,

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the local media are always interested in him.

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I really love this town.

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It's nice people living here.

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People here who don't know him personally

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have certainly heard of his yellow car and shoes.

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Quite obviously he's understood the art of publicity

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and applies it to himself.

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At 23 it was time for him to write his second book,

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this time about his own success.

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The problem with most young people

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is that they can only do one thing.

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I'm the opposite.

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I think about lots of things, and I do them.

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So Nick is an exceptional person.

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But in fact research shows that 63% of young people in Europe

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see themselves being their own boss.

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Indeed, uncertainties over employment

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make young entrepreneurs as drivers of innovation and creativity,

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which will benefit the entire European economy.

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We asked Nick what was his secret.

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Tell yes, dare to win, and dare to fail.

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22-year-old Katia is Polish.

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She's spending a year in Brussels

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working with her and seven other young volunteers.

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They're all passionately working for European integration 24 hours a day.

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Bernd is German. He looks after public relations.

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Alistair is Maltese.

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His area, external relations.

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Like Katia, Caroline comes from Poland.

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She's just visiting to help out with writing a request for subsidy

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Vangelis is Greek.

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He's the network development director.

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The president, Leon, is from Macedonia.

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And then two newcomers,

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Ufak and Aga, both from Turkey.

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It's a small community which reflects the European house.

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Everyone who lives in the house is here for his or her ideas.

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We come to Brussels for a year

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to live in this house and work as volunteers.

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We leave our families,

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our private lives,

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our university studies behind.

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We are here to contribute

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to making this place, this Europe, better.

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Whenever people are asking

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how come you're living all together in this house,

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working together, the answer is never easy.

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We are not choosing to live together here

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and work together here.

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We are elected to come here.

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So it happens that people don't know each other even.

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They share their working space.

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It can be very difficult to overcome some problems.

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So we have our own democracy.

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But in the end all of us are here for one aim.

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The common denominator here is everyone's commitment.

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Kattia is from Azerbaijan where he monitored the elections as an observer.

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Elections are performed in a democratic atmosphere.

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If you come into a polling station as an international observer

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they say, ah, welcome, international observers,

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there's a special chair for you over there.

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And you have to sit on the total other end of the room

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and there you can sit and you have to observe

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A few days previously Kattia was in Berlin

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attending a European conference on racism.

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I went to Berlin because the topic of the conference

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is directly linking with my task.

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I'm responsible for European institutions

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and this was about youth in action.

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So it's directly my thematic responsibility from here.

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I'm working to meet other people working in the same areas

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to find partners from projects.

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Recently the EU pays much more attention to the young people

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than it was before.

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But it's because the young people are asking for their place

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and they are doing it very strong.

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And that's also why we are here, to ask for our place,

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and I'm very positive about the fact that it will just be better.

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Back in Brussels she's off for a debriefing at the European Commission

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which co-organized the event.

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We have both been in Berlin. How did you feel about it?

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It was definitely interesting and definitely something very important.

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Kattia never has time to catch her breath.

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Back from the Commission a new urgent matter to attend to,

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and is it till 8pm or maybe till midnight?

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Because we have a late grant application to submit today

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and every hour is important.

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It's to do with a project aimed at making young people aware

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of the importance of democracy.

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The dossier has to be posted before 10pm.

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If it isn't, it won't be accepted.

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9.15pm, the document's finally finished.

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We were supposed to be paper friendly.

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But there's a hiccup. The printer has decided to go on strike.

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Time to get stressed.

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Precious minutes are lost. There's no way they'll catch the post.

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Actually, if it would be possible to pick them up in one hour, this would be great.

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Fortunately Kattia comes up with a solution.

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She gets the application in on time.

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Like Kattia and her friends, there are lots of young Europeans

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who are personally committed and actively participate

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in the political life of their continent, notably via projects

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supported by the European Commission's youth programme.

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Every year several dozen youth organisations operating at the European level

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also receive support from the European Union,

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who get their application in on time.