What do we do

The main activity of Eurizons is to educate about global interdependencies & development issues as well as to raise awareness for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Eurizons involves European citizens in an active reflection of their own responsibility towards global problems. As a common European responsibility young Europeans are actively taking part in a dialogue about global development and political empowerment activities. Around 88% of all Europeans have never heard about the global framework of the MDGs of the United Nations, which should be met until the year 2015.

This year Eurizons' main political focus will lay on global trade issues and especally the EPAs which are currently being negotiated in the European Union. We deeply believe, that fairer trade relations between the North and the South can make a great difference and should be one starting point for a fairer distribution of wealth in the world.

Through a colorful and unconventional approach we want to address especially young people to get involved in global issues. We will hitchhike from Riga in Latvia to Brussles in Belgium and will stop in eight European cities, where we are organizing big events with panel discussions, work shops, concerts, street theater, movie presentations and more.

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Who we are

We are more than 100 young people from 14 European countries organising this project together and you...

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Our Goals and Claims

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The Global Education Network of Young Europeans (GLEN)

Eurizons is a project of GLEN - a network of European NGOs in 12 countries committed to fair and sustainable development and to development education in Europe.

GLEN is a European learning programme of and for young Europeans focussing on development issues and global education. GLEN brings together Europeans from both old and new EU member states for creative and participatory learning processes, in order to allow them to develop new common approaches to the current global challenges. Every year GLEN enables ca. 100 young Europeans to participate in 3-month work and study stays in the South in order to provide them with a personal experience in working with partners in developing countries. Through training seminars GLEN qualifies yound people for work in global education in Europe. Eurizons is GLEN’s first big European developmental awareness raising project.

www.glen-europe.org