europe's (torn?) identity - Projects - AEGEE Europe

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To provide the participants with some additional knowledge about the relevant
topics of the theme.
To immerse the participants with a multicultural environment, giving them
the chance to experience intercultural learning and, consequently reduce prejudices
and stereotypes.
To offer to the participants a non-formal learning environment where the
exchange of ideas, opinions and knowledge is encouraged and the participants
get a better understanding of “the other”.
To enable the participants to state and defend their opinions and to negotiate
in order to find common positions and agreements.
To initiate further activities in the field of active citizenship on all three levels:
European, local and regional level.
THE BACKGROUND OF THE CONFERENCE
An idea is born ...
September 2002: The two initiators Olivier Genkin and Katarina Berglez found
themselves sitting next to each other on the flight from Sardinia to Rome and
one word led to another... so they agreed upon having a conference co-organized
by AEGEE-Ljubljana and IPWG on Europe's identity, nationalism, regionalism,
rightist movement and xenophobia. The preparations started.
The name is born ...
February 2003: At AEGEE's Planning Meeting in Enschede (The Netherlands),
the workshop held by Olivier Genkin and Ioana Muresan attracted the most
applications. It was entitled “Europe's (Torn?) Identity” – the name was born!
Preparations start ...
...immediately. AEGEE-Ljubljana was happy to take on a new challenge of organizing
a high-level youth meeting and the response from the local institutions
was promising right from the start.
The team grows, we get IPWG members from France, Germany, Romania and
The Netherlands, and more and more people from Ljubljana get involved. This
was necessary since task division makes life easier for (almost) everyone. It was
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