More than education - European Citizens' Initiative

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Open Letter: European Parliament, make the ECI work! - European Citizens' Initiative | The ECI Campaign On 20 June, the Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) of the European Parliament will cast a...

The 10th of April, took place, an important meeting place and platform where ECI organisers and stakeholders can exchange information and experiences. Of course we were present!
First Vice-President Frans Timmermans joins the event to launch a communication campaign on the tool and present the new collaborative platform aimed at offering support and advice on preparing initiatives.

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Focus on: Citizenship Education in the age of likes, hashtags and memes

Eurydice is happy to present a new Focus On article by Lydia Stoddart and David Crosier on the role of education in today's digital age. What role should education play in developing active, informed and responsible citizens? And in an age where new digital technologies are present in all aspects of our lives, what should we be doing to target digital citizenship? Have a read of this article http://europa.eu/!td68Qd and find out more about the effect of digitalisation on our lives.

While the revision on the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) initiated by the European Commission is ongoing, at Autumn Agora Catania our Policy Paper on the ECI got approved.

AEGEE / European Students' Forum advocates for making this direct democracy tool more accessible and usable for young Europeans, check it here: http://www.aegee.org/policy-paper-on-european-citizens-initiative/

The ECI is still the only transnational tool existing to allow citizens to participate in EU democracy. It is an immense opportunity to truly participate and act like critical citizens. However there also exist other ways of approaching or influencing the EU. Read more about it here:

Alternative ways of approaching or influencing the EU - European Citizens' Initiative - European Commission Petitions to the European Parliament can be submitted by citizens of the Union as well by natural or legal persons residing or having their registered office in an EU member state, either individually or in association with other citizens or persons and must concern matters which come within the Uni...

Our ECI "More than Education - Shaping Active and Responsible Citizens" has ended on the 6th of October 2017, one year after its registration.

We didn't reach the threshold of 1 million signatures, but we approached the initiative as a learning process. We set up a lot of small initiatives into the bigger frame of this ECI, making the whole AEGEE-network familiar with the ECI tool and raising awareness about the importance of civic education. We documented this process and the obstacles we faced and gave our input in the European Commission's public consultation on the ECI revision. We will continue to give our input to the improvement of the ECI as a tool.

The conference "More than an Initiative - The Future of the ECI" was a success. We had interesting and fruitful debates regarding the questions 'how to make the ECI more appealing, accessible and impactful', with the European Commission's proposal on the ECI revision as a starting point.

The conference marked the closing of our ECI.

Our "Travelling Tablets"-competition ended on September 27 during AEGEE's general assembly (Agora) in Catania. All locals which collected signatures for our ECI with the tablets had the chance to win our prize: a VIP-package including morning massage, food and some presents. The lucky winner was AEGEE-León, congratulations!
Many thanks also to all the others who contributed!