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Subido el 18 de septiembre de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Five young Europeans speak up about the issues that matter to them. Leyla, 25, voices her determination to counter animosity towards Muslims. Marion, 20, wants to increase awareness among her generation about the opportunities available through European programmes. Niclas, 23, leads an advertising agency in Sweden. His slogan - "'yes' to life, dare to succeed or fail". Katarzyna from Poland works in the student organisation AEGEE Europe. Luca shares his passion for filmmaking with young people in Turin. His vision: free filmmaking lessons and a feature film.

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Early November 2005, Köpenick, a suburb of Berlin. Here, for three days, 141 young people 00:00:00
from 41 European countries held a passionate debate about a burning question on their continent 00:00:09
– racism. One of the participants was Leila, a British girl of Somali origin. One momentous 00:00:14
event brought about her presence in Berlin. 00:00:21
The reason I'm here is because of the bombings that has happened in London in July. The Somali 00:00:24
name became under the spotlight of the media. And what we've done is a very active young 00:00:32
group of Somalis who never met before got together in one room and decided we had to 00:00:39
do something together. 00:00:45
This small group undertook various initiatives to rebuild their image with the public in 00:00:48
London. Artists, singers and poets rallied to the cause. There was significant press 00:00:52
coverage and Leila succeeded at the same time in gaining the respect of her own community. 00:00:59
In Berlin, everyone present has found ongoing discrimination in European society. During 00:01:05
the conference, everybody chose a particular theme. Leila's was Islamophobia. 00:01:10
The reason I chose this group that talked about the topic of Islamophobia is because 00:01:18
it's something that me and my community are faced with every day. It's something that 00:01:25
we have to go and defend ourselves. My sister was attacked at a bus stop, verbally attacked 00:01:31
because she was wearing a scarf and she was Somali. 00:01:36
Called Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance and co-organised by the European Commission 00:01:43
this conference promoted exchange and encouraged young people to participate at a European 00:01:48
level. 00:01:53
It was such an intense subject and distressing subject I think for all of us because sometimes 00:01:56
it really hits home. And I think a lot of anger came out sometimes and in the afternoon 00:02:02
I think we got to the stage where we were fed up and tired, physically, mentally tired 00:02:08
and you feel God. It was like being in a war in that room. 00:02:16
For Leila, it was a chance to access another dimension. 00:02:21
I have to say I'm very honoured actually to be within a meeting where everybody comes 00:02:23
from different backgrounds, even though it's only Europe, but it's really big. And I was 00:02:29
downstairs at a big meeting where I was just looking around thinking, wow, we all speak 00:02:33
different language, we all come from different cultures, we all have different opinions. 00:02:37
This is hard work. 00:02:42
After an intense heated debate, a declaration was presented to political decision makers, 00:02:47
listing measures that young people would like to take or implement themselves. 00:02:52
We believe that young people can play a significant part in improving the situation by personally 00:02:58
taking an active stand on all levels, from local to international, from the decision 00:03:03
making to implementation of concrete measures. 00:03:09
I'd like to thank you all very warmly for your commitment. Thank you very, very much. 00:03:13
Everybody I think wants to know what's going to happen next. Is this going to be taken? 00:03:23
Are we going to see results? So this is, I mean, could anyone answer that question for 00:03:27
us? Because I think we put so much hard work, we want to see some results. 00:03:32
While you were working, I was not, you know, just sitting there and being lazy. No, I was 00:03:36
also working and I was also developing an action plan. And I'm going to present you 00:03:41
this action plan now, an action plan for the implementation. 00:03:45
For the European Commission, the fight against racism and xenophobia will remain a priority 00:03:49
for the years to come. 00:03:53
One of the things I'm going to take back with me is give myself a chance to learn more 00:03:55
every day, because coming to this conference, I've actually learned a lot more from people 00:04:00
with the work they're doing. It gave me... 00:04:04
I wish, you know, we were on the world newspaper today about this conference. I mean, can you 00:04:08
imagine if the whole world knew about this conference now? How it would affect people 00:04:12
and anyone in the train would say, wow, this is great, this is happening. We need to find 00:04:16
a certain media that would always show the positive side. 00:04:20
European Youth Week starts at the beginning of December 2005. Here in Freiburg, the European 00:04:24
Commission's youth program will be a main feature, as it will be everywhere in Europe. 00:04:39
Marion is 22. Like a hundred or so other young Germans, she's taking part in the Europeers 00:04:43
project. Her aim is to let her generation know how they can benefit from European programs. 00:04:48
Marion knows what she's talking about because she herself was helped by the youth program. 00:04:55
I always wanted to do something after my baccalaureate, before going to university. I needed a break. 00:05:00
After 13 years at school, always learning, always being passive. And at university, it's 00:05:05
more of the same thing. You sit there and somebody tells you something. And that's why 00:05:12
I wanted to do something practical with my own hands and to travel a bit. 00:05:20
The European Voluntary Service offered her the chance to work at an institution in England 00:05:30
looking after disabled children. 00:05:34
I learned lots of things, including very practical things, like learning English for a start 00:05:36
and really well, because I spoke English all the time. It was simple, there was no alternative 00:05:42
and it was fantastic. 00:05:48
On her return from England, Marion decided to go to university to study English and German 00:05:50
literature. Marion's passionate about learning and getting involved. She's not only joined 00:05:54
a theatre review group, but also a local radio station. All this, of course, on a voluntary basis. 00:05:59
Why am I a volunteer? I think that when you are serious about something and give something 00:06:05
to other people, your time, for example, and you look after people, you get something 00:06:12
in return. But that also depends on the way you give. 00:06:19
So on top of all her voluntary activities, Marion's busy at a European level with the 00:06:27
Europeas Project. 00:06:32
What we do is the same all over Germany. There are a hundred volunteers in their hometowns 00:06:34
or where they're studying or just wherever they are at the moment. These young people 00:06:41
go into schools, youth clubs and talk about their experiences and give information too. 00:06:47
I should like to talk to Mrs. Stella, if that's possible. She asked me to call her back about 00:06:54
the event in December, the peer-to-peer on Europe. 00:07:00
OK, thanks. 00:07:07
Informing people is a really big step. It takes experience and a lot of time. 00:07:13
Informing people is a really big step. It takes experience. It's part of what we have to do. 00:07:19
I need to discuss that with my colleague who's coming too, but we'll be back in touch about it. 00:07:28
Great. Thanks very much. Bye. 00:07:34
Tschüss Peter, tschüss. 00:07:37
Marion is not the only Europea in Freiburg. She met four girls who are now her friends 00:07:44
at a national training course for the project. 00:07:48
During European Youth Week, Marion and the others will run information sessions. 00:07:54
Today they're looking at the room which they'll use for their presentation. 00:07:59
When you think how great it is that Europe is so small in terms of its surface area, 00:08:04
but at the same time it has so much to offer from every point of view. 00:08:11
People, cultures, landscapes. 00:08:17
To me, being European is being part of a whole. 00:08:22
Being part of a whole. 00:08:26
Especially because in Italian cinema everything happens in Rome or Milan. 00:08:57
How did Luca get started? 00:09:03
I did European voluntary service in Madrid for six months. 00:09:09
It was a really great experience. 00:09:15
And I was able to produce some video clips for up and coming bands. 00:09:18
Back in Italy, because I had worked artistically in the cinema, 00:09:22
I presented a future capital project to the European Union called Cinema Anch'io. 00:09:31
Future capital is an initiative of the European Commission's youth program. 00:09:39
It's designed to be a prolongation of European voluntary service. 00:09:44
The objective is for young people to profit from everything they've learned during their voluntary service abroad 00:09:47
and once they're back home, to allow others to benefit from it. 00:09:52
Cinema Anch'io is soon going to become a cultural association for independent film production. 00:10:02
The aim is to offer what I call artistic rights to everyone. 00:10:07
Everyone who wants to learn about cinema. 00:10:12
Cinema Anch'io offers free training in cinema for young people. 00:10:18
It was at one of those courses that Luca met Sonia 00:10:22
and offered her the chance to produce the film Danza la Conscienza. 00:10:25
The film tells the story of a young French girl who moves from France to Italy. 00:10:29
How her thinking changes and how she gets over a certain number of obstacles. 00:10:35
We held casting sessions to find the actors. 00:10:42
Lots of people responded and were interested in working as an actor. 00:10:46
Even though they knew they would have to work for free, they were very keen. 00:10:54
Directly and indirectly, the project was a success. 00:11:05
Directly and indirectly, the project involved more than 500 people. 00:11:09
Imagine the cultural impact it had in this post-industrial city. 00:11:14
I realized that in my town, as I'm sure in many others in Italy and other countries, 00:11:21
lots of people wanted to find out about cinema and do some film work. 00:11:26
But there are very few opportunities. 00:11:31
For his film, Luca approached the cinema commission for the Piedmont region. 00:11:35
He received aid in the form of shooting equipment. 00:11:40
Let's go to the film commission. 00:11:43
How was the shooting? 00:11:49
It's finished. I'm here to show you the trailer. 00:11:52
When Luca came to the office, we liked his film, 00:11:55
which was more interesting than the average one we see, 00:12:00
because of its European dimensions. 00:12:05
On this November evening, in 2005, some of the islanders 00:12:10
saw Luca on the seashore 맛있 aubergine. 00:12:15
But they didn't know where he lived, 00:12:19
and were keen to know where he was going. 00:12:23
On this November evening, in 2005, some of the actors and technicians 00:12:26
are getting together at the editor's place to take a first look at the website. 00:12:30
I think there is a place for young people in Europe. 00:12:46
I cannot compare today's Europe with yesterday's, 00:12:50
because I am young, and I do not know how things were before. 00:12:53
But today I would like to put everything in place, 00:12:58
to get on with what I like doing, making films, 00:13:02
and to offer others the chance to do the same, 00:13:06
especially other young people. 00:13:10
This is Stockholm, where Nicolas has just been at a trendy party for a magazine launch. 00:13:23
To get home to the north of Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, 00:13:27
he needs to take a plane. 00:13:31
It's 3.30 p.m. when he lands, and it's already dark. 00:13:35
So far, you might think that Nick is just another young guy. 00:13:39
After all, he lives in what's called here a collective. 00:13:43
That's to say, a communal apartment that he shares with his brother and other friends. 00:13:47
And, like many other young people in northern Sweden, he plays floorball. 00:13:50
But appearances can be deceptive, because Nick is far from ordinary. 00:13:54
Here, people traditionally work in the wood and paper sector, 00:13:58
but Nick has decided to go his own way. 00:14:02
At just 23 years old, he runs the biggest advertising agency in the region. 00:14:06
He has been working in the wood and paper sector since he was a child. 00:14:10
He has been working in the wood and paper sector since he was a child. 00:14:14
Helicopter is a full-service advertising agency. 00:14:17
We have seven employees. 00:14:21
We are a very young office and very go-ahead. 00:14:25
We have ideas. 00:14:29
We know the local market very well. 00:14:33
But we have also worked on the design of decorations 00:14:37
for floorball competitions at the international level. 00:14:41
That's helicopter? 00:14:44
That's helicopter. 00:14:48
But how has this astonishing young man achieved all this? 00:14:52
Nick had the benefit of training given by the European Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Network, 00:14:56
supported by the European Commission. 00:15:00
He started a small company and published a book 00:15:04
giving advice to young people who were about to leave the parental home. 00:15:08
We wanted to do something serious. 00:15:11
And then we began by doing a market study on toilet paper 00:15:15
to find out which was the best. 00:15:19
The book, which was both practical and funny, 00:15:27
not only appealed to the general public, 00:15:31
but also to the Swedish jury for the Best Entrepreneurial Initiative Prize. 00:15:35
I was invited to lecture at various companies and schools. 00:15:38
After a while I said to myself, 00:15:44
perhaps I can get paid for that. 00:15:48
I asked for 500, 1,000, 2,000, 4,000 Swedish kronor, 00:15:52
and the people paid it. 00:15:56
There was a time when I got lots of offers, 00:16:02
interesting and fun things. 00:16:05
I always said yes. 00:16:09
My strategy was to say yes, 00:16:13
to work in a big carpet warehouse, 00:16:17
selling things by the square meter, 00:16:21
and then another job. 00:16:25
Six months later, a helicopter called me, 00:16:29
and I said yes. 00:16:32
By always saying yes to what life has offered him, 00:16:36
Nick has become the boss of Helicopter. 00:16:40
As one of Piteå's celebrities, 00:16:44
the local media are always interested in him. 00:16:48
I really love this town. 00:16:52
It's nice people living here. 00:16:56
People here who don't know him personally 00:16:59
have certainly heard of his yellow car and shoes. 00:17:03
Quite obviously he's understood the art of publicity 00:17:07
and applies it to himself. 00:17:11
At 23 it was time for him to write his second book, 00:17:15
this time about his own success. 00:17:19
The problem with most young people 00:17:23
is that they can only do one thing. 00:17:26
I'm the opposite. 00:17:30
I think about lots of things, and I do them. 00:17:34
So Nick is an exceptional person. 00:17:38
But in fact research shows that 63% of young people in Europe 00:17:42
see themselves being their own boss. 00:17:46
Indeed, uncertainties over employment 00:17:50
make young entrepreneurs as drivers of innovation and creativity, 00:17:53
which will benefit the entire European economy. 00:17:57
We asked Nick what was his secret. 00:18:01
Tell yes, dare to win, and dare to fail. 00:18:05
22-year-old Katia is Polish. 00:18:14
She's spending a year in Brussels 00:18:18
working with her and seven other young volunteers. 00:18:21
They're all passionately working for European integration 24 hours a day. 00:18:25
Bernd is German. He looks after public relations. 00:18:29
Alistair is Maltese. 00:18:33
His area, external relations. 00:18:37
Like Katia, Caroline comes from Poland. 00:18:41
She's just visiting to help out with writing a request for subsidy 00:18:45
Vangelis is Greek. 00:18:48
He's the network development director. 00:18:52
The president, Leon, is from Macedonia. 00:18:56
And then two newcomers, 00:19:00
Ufak and Aga, both from Turkey. 00:19:04
It's a small community which reflects the European house. 00:19:08
Everyone who lives in the house is here for his or her ideas. 00:19:12
We come to Brussels for a year 00:19:15
to live in this house and work as volunteers. 00:19:19
We leave our families, 00:19:23
our private lives, 00:19:27
our university studies behind. 00:19:31
We are here to contribute 00:19:35
to making this place, this Europe, better. 00:19:39
Whenever people are asking 00:19:42
how come you're living all together in this house, 00:19:46
working together, the answer is never easy. 00:19:50
We are not choosing to live together here 00:19:54
and work together here. 00:19:58
We are elected to come here. 00:20:02
So it happens that people don't know each other even. 00:20:06
They share their working space. 00:20:09
It can be very difficult to overcome some problems. 00:20:23
So we have our own democracy. 00:20:27
But in the end all of us are here for one aim. 00:20:31
The common denominator here is everyone's commitment. 00:20:35
Kattia is from Azerbaijan where he monitored the elections as an observer. 00:20:39
Elections are performed in a democratic atmosphere. 00:20:43
If you come into a polling station as an international observer 00:20:47
they say, ah, welcome, international observers, 00:20:51
there's a special chair for you over there. 00:20:55
And you have to sit on the total other end of the room 00:20:59
and there you can sit and you have to observe 00:21:03
A few days previously Kattia was in Berlin 00:21:06
attending a European conference on racism. 00:21:10
I went to Berlin because the topic of the conference 00:21:14
is directly linking with my task. 00:21:18
I'm responsible for European institutions 00:21:22
and this was about youth in action. 00:21:26
So it's directly my thematic responsibility from here. 00:21:30
I'm working to meet other people working in the same areas 00:21:33
to find partners from projects. 00:21:37
Recently the EU pays much more attention to the young people 00:21:41
than it was before. 00:21:45
But it's because the young people are asking for their place 00:21:49
and they are doing it very strong. 00:21:53
And that's also why we are here, to ask for our place, 00:21:57
and I'm very positive about the fact that it will just be better. 00:22:00
Back in Brussels she's off for a debriefing at the European Commission 00:22:04
which co-organized the event. 00:22:08
We have both been in Berlin. How did you feel about it? 00:22:12
It was definitely interesting and definitely something very important. 00:22:16
Kattia never has time to catch her breath. 00:22:20
Back from the Commission a new urgent matter to attend to, 00:22:24
and is it till 8pm or maybe till midnight? 00:22:27
Because we have a late grant application to submit today 00:22:31
and every hour is important. 00:22:35
It's to do with a project aimed at making young people aware 00:22:39
of the importance of democracy. 00:22:43
The dossier has to be posted before 10pm. 00:22:47
If it isn't, it won't be accepted. 00:22:51
9.15pm, the document's finally finished. 00:22:54
We were supposed to be paper friendly. 00:22:58
But there's a hiccup. The printer has decided to go on strike. 00:23:02
Time to get stressed. 00:23:06
Precious minutes are lost. There's no way they'll catch the post. 00:23:10
Actually, if it would be possible to pick them up in one hour, this would be great. 00:23:14
Fortunately Kattia comes up with a solution. 00:23:18
She gets the application in on time. 00:23:21
Like Kattia and her friends, there are lots of young Europeans 00:23:25
who are personally committed and actively participate 00:23:29
in the political life of their continent, notably via projects 00:23:33
supported by the European Commission's youth programme. 00:23:37
Every year several dozen youth organisations operating at the European level 00:23:41
also receive support from the European Union, 00:23:45
who get their application in on time. 00:23:48
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