European Observatory

EOLCRA Project
Jean Monnet Programme Lifelong Learning
01/09/2012- 31/08/2013 Silvia Polidori-GNSS Agencyand the Coordinator Students of the project Brussels, 05/05/2013

What is it about?
The European Observatory project is the establishment of a European multinational young generations' network working on building a privileged knowledge position towards the European history, policies and reality for the benefit of a valuable European integration.

What is the aim?

Linking together students from different European countries and universities Enhancing the European young generations integration Boosting sensibilisation to European affairs and policies Increasing the knowledge in the EU history, policies and young generations perspectives Fostering the civil society participation in European affairs

How to reach this objective?

Direct meeting and opening discussion at the launching conference in Rome on 26 Oct 2012 Visiting the European institutions in Brussels in spring 2013 European guided trip to the Houses Museums of the Founder Fathers of Europe Final seminar on the outcome of the project implementation .and a

European on-line Forum

Some history of the project

The European Observatory Forum will be: the first ever existed , built BY students and FOR students!
Students will integrate among themselves sharing knowledge, ideas and different cultural views on common European items. They will share a work together, and benefit from its concrete results. The network created through the forum will serve to increase the interest on European developments, policies and new visions, together with an effective integration, implemented IN PRACTICE.

The Project Actors

1 Coordinator professor per founder university per country. The aim: to ensure high commitment of students and quality of the performances, providing inputs to discussion and feedbacks on the results. 1 Coordinator student per founder university per country. The aim: to support the organization of activities for his/her fellowship university colleagues

The Facilitators: officials and agents of different European institutions and bodies. The aim: facilitate the forum discussion, providing input upon request also during the other project activities. They act individually, not expressing opinions of the institutions they work for.
Experts from the European institutions and representatives of the civil society. The aim: contribution to the project creating a link between the universities, the European and national institutions and the civil society.

The Website on-line!

The Forum

How does it work?

The Poll

The Press page

Publications

The Events

The Innovative character of the European Observatory project

Content: Bring European matters to the centre of studies and discussion, integrating young generations in the performance of a common work. The innovative value of the project and the public target to whom the project is addressed, represent a new way to foster the education in Europe and about Europe. Mean: The informatic mean will be the key to reach the European citizens on large scale; The two pillars of our innovative project will be the promotion of both on-line and sur place experiences! Actors: Students and professors together will be the ambassadors of this innovative initiative. It will be a team achievement involving also experiences, inputs and feedbacks by actors of the institutional environment and from the civil society in general. The European Observatory will build upon the basis of a network of international universities, multinational students and high level European experts.

Kick-Off
The success of the project lies in its good implementation you are welcome to contribute and be part of it! Join the On-line Forum and get all other information at

www.european-observatory.net