May 23 2018
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Green Activist

European Green Activist Training (EGAT) International Version (Helsinki)

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Context

The Green European Foundation, in cooperation with Green Forum and green youth organisations from the Baltic region organises ‘The Green Summer School: Politics, Environment, and Society’ from June 28 to 30 in Helsinki. The event is part of the European Green Activists Training (EGAT) project.

About the event

The European Green Activist Training  is taking on an international dimension! Young people, from the EU and non EU Baltic region countries (Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Russia), involved in green politics will meet in Finland for 3 days to exchange on deeper European and regional cooperation and the current environmental topics.

During the event, the participants will attend lectures, panel discussions, and workshops on political, environmental and social aspects of green politics, such as civil society and media involvement, human rights, minorities and diversity, renewable energy etc. As a result, they are expected to deepen their knowledge on green topics, and expand their green networks for future international cooperation.

 

This event is organised with financial support from the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.

Feb 14 2017
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Digitised Security – How to Read the Surveillance Discourse and Fight it!

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The seminar took place from 24th – 30th April in Bosnia. It was inspired by a digital [x] webinar that looked at the political reactions sparked by the terrorist attacks in Paris and how the tension between security and freedom was framed by agenda setters. A year later, censorship and mass surveillance are becoming the norm, and we want to fight this: we want to change the discourse to achieve better policy and give everyone the tools to protect their freedom, even in hostile environments.

The programme was based on the principles of non-formal education and intercultural learning. We strove for active, inclusive and direct communication and transfer of knowledge. The sessions were balanced between theoretical inputs, workshops, role-plays, debates, discussions, reflection and other interactive methods of learning.

The seminar aspired to:

  • Explore how recent events have led to fear being instrumentalised to restrict our online freedoms;
  • Analyse how online censorship and mass surveillance are justified by governing bodies and why these policies are ineffective at increasing security;
  • See how they harm personal freedoms and democracy;
  • Look at why anonymity and privacy is important for oppressed and minority groups to avoid persecution and harassment;
  • Develop skills to use software that protects us from surveillance and overcomes censorship.

During the week-long event, 40 young people from all over Europe came together and aimed at creating a vibrant environment to produce sustainable and long lasting collaboration to fight for common digital rights!

The event reported can be downloaded here.

More information

Date: 24 – 30 April 2017
Location: (close to) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 6 working days
Working language: English
Number of participants: 40

Call for applications closed!

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Project Description
AGENDA

This project was supported by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, Green Forum (Sweden), Green European Foundation and Terry Reintke (Member of the European Parliament, The Greens/EFA).