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Subido el 19 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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What does « Europe » do for Young People? And how can young people between the ages of 15 and 25 do their bit for Europe? What do they stand to gain from the “Youth Pact” (the “Lisbon strategy” applied to young people), in particular when it comes to jobs?

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What do young people think of Europe? As part of Youth Week 2005, the European Commission 00:00:00
Directorate-General for Education and Culture interviewed more than 24,000 young people. 00:00:06
Although 2005 is ending on a mixed note, a lot can be learned from the way young people 00:00:12
view things. Despite being described as the Euro-generation, they don't identify with 00:00:17
Europe much more than their parents do. Only 58% of them feel European, as against free 00:00:22
54% of the population as a whole. Nevertheless, some young people have decided to be committed 00:00:28
Europeans. Stefan Carrara is president of Cafébabel.com Brussels, a European news magazine 00:00:36
available on the Internet in six languages. Its aim is to contribute to the emergence 00:00:42
of a European public opinion. The unusual thing about this magazine is that it's produced 00:00:47
by young volunteers in different cities. Apart from this editorial aspect, the network 00:00:52
also organises debates, convinced that young people have a role to play in the Europe of 00:00:58
tomorrow. 00:01:03
Young people have a part to play. Our ambition is really to bring them to Europe and tell 00:01:05
them, OK, it's your Europe. What we want to do is, in a sense, to give them the keys to 00:01:10
understanding this Europe, so that they can take it in hand, really get to know it and 00:01:16
discuss together, at a European level, what we're actually going to do with this Europe 00:01:20
of ours. 00:01:25
Vanessa Witkowski belongs to Cafébabel.com. She's what's called a babelienne. 00:01:28
To be babelienne, first of all, you have to be convinced that Europe is a fantastic project, 00:01:34
that it's full of opportunity. You have to be open to other cultures. You have to like 00:01:39
talking, discussion and debates on different subjects. What is essential for me is to create 00:01:45
contact, to say to young people, these politicians are not inaccessible. And I think that we've 00:01:51
already come a long way down the road. If we manage to bring this European elite to 00:01:57
the level of young people, we've opened a door. 00:02:02
This evening, Vanessa has a meeting with other babeliennes to talk about potential subjects 00:02:10
for future debates. 00:02:14
There's a new report from Eurobarometer, which is quite interesting, called Youth Takes the 00:02:19
Floor. And there are some questions which are really pertinent, that I think we could 00:02:25
use in our upcoming debates. For example, when asked what should be the priority for 00:02:30
the European Union, young people in the new member states answered, fighting unemployment. 00:02:37
And I think that that's quite revealing, compared to 48% of the old member states, who take 00:02:47
the same view. Perhaps you have an idea. Here are the stats. What do you think? 00:02:53
The stats, as Vanessa calls them, are from a study undertaken by the European Commission 00:03:00
Directorate General for Education and Culture. The report highlights the fact that young 00:03:04
people think employment should be one of the main priorities for the Union. Concrete evidence 00:03:08
of this is to be found in Malta, where the European Commission Youth Programme supports 00:03:13
a project involving five young unemployed people. 00:03:17
I was unemployed. I met with Sean, and we were with the same ideas, and we decided to 00:03:21
do a project. Then we contacted ETC, and they helped us find the other three candidates. 00:03:28
The local employment agency in Malta, the ETC, introduced them to Brian and Clint, two 00:03:36
IT experts who supervised the project. They recruited three other unemployed youngsters 00:03:41
and suggested taking the initial idea a little further, by adding a community dimension. 00:03:46
The final idea for the project was a portal on Valletta, including also a part on NGOs 00:03:52
located in Valletta. The NGOs are non-government organisations which don't make profit, so 00:03:59
they're non-profit as well. So this project will help them have a website without paying 00:04:06
for it. It will also aid these young people, enhance their skills in web design and programming, 00:04:11
so that they will have better prospects for employment in the future. 00:04:20
So, following your idea for a portal centred around Valletta, what we're going to do is 00:04:27
we're going to get a list of NGOs from the Valletta Local Council. 00:04:33
Basically, the project will be tackled like this. You have to first contact the NGOs and 00:04:36
give them information about the project. You will then wait for them to give you feedback 00:04:42
about to see who is interested to join the portal. The project will have two groups, 00:04:48
which are the designers and the programmers. Now Brian will explain to you the role of 00:04:55
the designers. 00:05:00
So they offered their services to several NGOs and are going to create a web version 00:05:01
of the Lane in Sewan newspaper, published by one of them. 00:05:06
Tell me what content you want to be displayed on the website. 00:05:10
It has been long since our overseas subscribers had asked us to put our paper on the website. 00:05:13
See? And at the moment, at that time, we couldn't afford it. 00:05:20
For these young Maltese, the project offers an extraordinary opportunity, which helps 00:05:25
them envisage a professional future. 00:05:29
In Malta, there is a lot of competition in the computer sector. There are too few vacancies, 00:05:32
too many applicants. And the more the experience and the more the qualifications you have, 00:05:38
of course, the more chance you beat competition. And of course, through the experience and 00:05:45
things I learned from this project, it will definitely help me in finding a fixed job 00:05:52
in web development. 00:05:57
In Europe, several thousand projects like this receive support every year from the Youth 00:05:59
Programme. Initiatives are encouraged in various domains, such as intercultural exchanges, 00:06:04
volunteering or undertaking projects at the local level. 00:06:09
Thanks to this project, we advanced and excelled our skills, thanks to this project. 00:06:14
Having created this website looks very good on their CVs and has given them the practical 00:06:21
experience which seems to be so crucial to potential employers. 00:06:27
After less than six months, the future for these five young people looks totally different. 00:06:31
The Maltese authorities think the experiment deserves to be repeated. But although employment 00:06:35
seems to be the number one priority for young people in Europe, it's interesting to look 00:06:40
at other perceptions of Europe among young people. 00:06:44
Back to Brussels. 00:06:47
And that's the real issue. Because asked if they agree that I'm interested in what is 00:06:49
going on in politics and current affairs, finally only 46% said that they were interested 00:06:54
in Europe. So you were talking about dialogue and I completely agree. I don't know, perhaps 00:06:59
Eike, what do you think? 00:07:04
Very few young Europeans feel themselves as European only. They usually see the European 00:07:06
identity as a complementary, you know, identity to their own nationality. 00:07:12
Well, but we don't need them to feel European only and nobody wants anybody to give up its 00:07:19
national or regional identity. I mean, I think it's quite positive already that, I mean, 00:07:25
that most of them seem to have like the European identity as a second identity, like they have 00:07:32
it, so that they still feel like they belong to something. 00:07:38
Yes, young people feel they belong to something, but they seem to find it difficult to take 00:07:43
a real interest. Only 55% of young people feel concerned by European politics, as against 00:07:47
67% of their elders. Even fewer of them feel involved. In fact, only four young people 00:07:53
in ten have the impression that any notice is taken of their opinion. This was also discovered 00:07:59
to be true in Malta, when a lot of Maltese responded to an internet-based research study 00:08:04
among 4,000 young Europeans. 00:08:09
To be honest with you, concerning the issue, up to date, they are not aware that the EU 00:08:12
can offer a consultation process where they can give input about policy-making, about 00:08:18
policy formulation concerning employment, housing, social inclusion, all the issues 00:08:23
that affect their everyday living. They have the opportunity and the mechanism to give 00:08:29
their input and to affect the outcome. But I wonder if young people today are aware of 00:08:35
such opportunities. 00:08:40
I think it's lack of information. The information that they are getting is just about EU funds 00:08:41
and EU grants and all these kinds of things, like EU as a bank. They are not seeing it 00:08:48
as an opportunity to put out their opinions, where they can even contribute, whatever it 00:08:54
is. If it's something they don't agree, they can just say, I don't agree with it, and it 00:08:59
will be heard. 00:09:05
We shouldn't underestimate the power of one. We can, in fact, implement changes in our 00:09:06
countries and within the European Union, because if we really do believe in something, we really 00:09:12
can. 00:09:18
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