First preparatory workshop of the project “Alternative Europe!” at the annual conference of Institute for European Politics
In the context of the annual conference of Institute for European Politics (IEP), the first Young Academic Directorate (JuWiDi) was held on September 29, 2016, in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (AEI). The JuWiDi was the kick-off event of the integrative project “Alternative Europe!” of the Junges Europawissenschaftliches Netzwerk (JEN), the youth association of the Europawissenschaftliches Netzwerk Deutschland (END), founded in 2016.
In order to work out which topics should be the subject of a debate on the future of the European Union, the 19 participating young researchers and representatives of civil society initiatives were confronted with two challenges on the topics of Brexit and European populism. The task for all four teams, who were to develop either a strategy for the Brexit negotiations or an election campaign for the next European elections, was to define political priorities and thus the policy areas they considered most relevant in the coming years. During the evaluation of the team presentations, however, it quickly became clear that it is only possible to define possible topics for debate in the light of a concrete project goal. The follow-up event in December 2016 will serve to define this goal and, based on this, the topics.
Impressions of the event can be found in the picture gallery.
