User:Michelle Grech/European Youth Voice

 European Youth Voice 

The EuropeanYouthVoice project was initiated by the Aktuelles Forum (http://www.aktuelles-forum.eu). The latter is a recognized management agency for further political education and training which was founded in 1968 to offer young people a forum for political discussion that is not party-politically oriented but open for all.

 Aktuelles Forum 

Aktuelles Forum is a registered non-profit-making organisation with an honorary committee of six persons and five full-time staff members. The organisation is based in Gelsenkirchen and consequently the main focus of its operations is the Ruhr district. But this was not enough for them and Aktuelles Forum take pleasure in carrying out international projects.

 The Project 

The idea of the Internet newspaper was one of them, and this was launched in 2006. The main direction of this project was to create a ‘Young European Public’ and to promote peaceful living in Democratic Europe. The former name of this project was EuroNews but this idea was discarded because the situation was made complicated and because of the tremendously popular existing TV Channel EuroNews which Aktuelles Forum’s EuroNews seemed part of.

 Your words, your opinions, your text online 

This was one of the first slogans of EYV. Subscribers could write their own texts for this European Internet newspaper/magazine about young people and for young people in Europe. Every month there used to be a central topic of interest. This method did not deem satisfactory after a short while and was eventually discarded. Instead, contributors are left creative to write what they desire. Topics include recent events in Europe, articles about home and also about oneself. The European Youth Voice Staff Meeting Since 2006, the European Youth Voice contributors (who all make part of the editorial staff) have not only met online but thanks to sponsorship they have also been able to meet in a European town on a yearly basis.

Watch the New European Youth Voice Trailer for more information, once you’re on our channel subscribe take a peek to the rest of the videos.

 Sponsors 

The EuropeanYouthVoice is financed by the German Federal Agency of Civic Education, the land headquarters for political education in North Rhine-Westphalia and promoted by honorary assistants.

 European Youth Voice Re-Launch 

This is part of a collaboration between Facchouschule Gelsenkirchen’s Journalism and Public Relations Institute and Aktuelles Forum. A group made up of four students had to critically analyze the EuropeanYouthVoice Project and work on it for improvement. This project is at the moment at its final phases.

 Links  http://www.europeanyouthvoice.eu http://www.aktuelles-forum.de

 Contact  Aktuelles Forum, Hohenstaufenalee, 1-5, 45888, Gelsenkirchen, (Germany)

Tel: +49 209 155 100

 Email  info@aktuelles-forum.de''