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European Green Activist Training Finland
From 2 to 4 December 2016, the Green European Foundation organised, with the support of Visio, a training for young green activists as part of its successful transnational project.
Also in 2016, young green-minded people gathered in Helsinki for a training on European topics as part of the Green European Foundation’s transnational project European Green Activist Training.
The training was organised in parallel to similar trainings in Catalonia, Czech Republic and Hungary, and culminated in a common study trip to Brussels to experience the European Union first-hand.
Programme
December 2
15:00h: Visit to the European Commission’s Finnish department and to the European Parliament’s Finnish information service; ‘EU in a nutshell’ – Jarmo Oikarinen and Timo Pulkkinen
17:30h: Green in Europe and in the EU – Laura Norström (MEP Heidi Hautala’s assistant, on maternity leave)
19h30: Me, an European? – Jesse Jääskeläinen (Young European Federalists Finland)
December 3
10:00h: Discussion on the Future of free movement in the world of Trump and Brexit – Kati Pietarinen, Markus Himanen, Laura Nordström and Hussain Kazemian
12:30h: EU policies workshop – Riikka Tähkävuori
15:00h: Hate speech and human rights in Europe – Niko Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki)
17:00h: How can I influence on policy making? – Filipe Henriques
19:00h: Dinner with Alan Haji, a syrian refugee
December 4
10:00h: Climate policy – Tuuli Hietaniemi (Kepa)
13:00h: NGO and the EU – Anssi Pirttijärvi (Seta)