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Jugendparlament: Lateinamerika - Europa - Afrika: ein verbindender dialog
Start date: Nov 1, 2009,
Youth Parliament: Latin America – Europe – Africa: A Dialogue That Unites
With this project the Goethe-Institut Uruguay wishes to take up the slogan "For a Better World" coined by
the European-African Youth Summit 2007 and, together with school students form Latin America, Africa
and Europe, give it substance and develop it further at a Youth Parliament in Montevideo. At this future
workshop the participants will not only gain insight into the global process of integration but will also
become aware of their common, unifying identity as globalists. In total, 12 countries will take part in this
project with 100 school students: Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sweden, Luxemburg, Spain, Germany,
Austria, Mexiko, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
The Youth Parliament consists of two parts. The national sessions of the respective country, conducted
locally, will give an introduction to and explanation of the committee topics and instil an awareness of the
principles of a consensus-directed debate. The international session will be held from 5 – 11 July 2010 in
the Mercosur parliament building in Montevideo, where proposals for solutions and strategies for achieving
them will be drawn up and developed in relation to the following current topics:
1. Approaches to a sustainable attainment of the eight millennium development goals
2. Approaches to furthering human dignity, equal rights and democracy
3. Approaches to combating racism
4. Approaches to protecting the climate
5. Approaches to tackling the world economic crisis
The proposals will be given concrete substance in the committees, published in the form of resolutions and
debated and adopted in the concluding plenary session. Decision-makers, politicians and the press will take
an active part in this process and they will receive the results in writing. The Parliament's own website will
contain reports on the events and results, the plenary sessions will be broadcast via a live video link and a
film team will document the high-spots of the Youth Parliament.
The aim of this project is to sustainably promote the development of a profound global awareness and
understanding among young people on three, partly very different continents and to provide an opportunity
for personality development and communication. With this the Goethe-Institut Uruguay wishes to support a
sustainable and enduring world development, and to stimulate international collaboration between young
people, the exchange of experience and the setting up of enduring and global networks.
For more information please contact:
Alexander Kruckenfellner
Academic Director
Goethe-Institut Uruguay
e-mail: ls@montevideo.goethe.org
Telephone: (++598) 2 410 58 13