{"id":8064,"date":"2018-11-27T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:13:53","slug":"why-european-parliament-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/why-european-parliament-the-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Why European Parliament &#8211; The results"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The European Parliament and other institutions within the European Union are important, but for many not easy to understand. In our efforts to reach and educate young people about the functioning of the European Parliament, we have reached over 20.000 people monthly, and increased knowledge on the European Parliament and the elections in 2019 significantly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why European Parliament (YEP) was a project ran by AEGEE-Europe with the aim of<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informing young people about the European Parliament as an institution, the democratic concept for which it stands, its functioning and competences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exposing the relevance of the European Parliament in the daily life of young people.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encouraging young people to be aware and participate in the democratic European life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project was divided into <\/span><b>offline and online actions. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The offline part was focussing on training a pool of young multipliers via five unique workshops. These multipliers formed an informal network that carried out numerous local and regional actions oriented at informing young people on the European Parliament by peer learning, non-formal education and audio visual production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second, online part of the project, had a central role in order to increase the impact and outreach as well as to unite all the offline actions carried out. A social media campaign was launched, consisting of the produced materials during the project by all involved people, consisting of pictures, EU news, interviews and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of six months, we have reached <\/span><b>1199<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people in person, <\/span><b>120.809<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people online, and created <\/span><b>807<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> multipliers in <\/span><b>15 countries!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are proud to present the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yvote.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/YEP-Result-Booklet-Final.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">results for the Why European Parliament project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We once again want to thank all people involved in the project, in particular <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yvote.eu\/person\/maria-ballesteros-melero\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mari\u0301a Ballesteros Melero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yvote.eu\/person\/loes-rutten\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loes Rutten<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who initiated this project and have supported the project through time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament and other institutions within the European Union are important, but for many not easy to understand. In our efforts to reach and educate young people about the functioning of the European Parliament, we have reached over 20.000 people monthly, and increased knowledge on the European Parliament and the elections in 2019 significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.aegee.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}