Eusalp Youth

Young people between 18 and 29 who live in one of the 48 EUSALP regions in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland or Liechtenstein can apply to join the EUSALP Youth Council until 15 May 2024. Four young people from each of the seven Alpine countries – and thus a total of 28 young people – will get the chance to participate in the implementation of the EUSALP for one year.

Since a maximum of half of the Youth Councillors can renew their mandate for one year, this year 20 places for new members are available.

Application form ➡️ https://regionsud.hosting.augure.com/Augure_RegionSud/default.ashx?WCI=Formulaire&WCIACTION=Display&ID=38

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The EUSALP Youth Council kicks off the year 2024 with a working meeting in Liechtenstein. 🇱🇮🏔️

This weekend, from January 12 to 14, we will be working on our projects and meeting with local organizations in Liechtenstein. 🤝📝

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the Office for Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Liechtenstein for their financial support, which makes the organization of this meeting possible. 💚

If you’re around, join us on Saturday afternoon! 🤝

🇪🇺🤝✅Here is an example of how the EUSALP Youth Council is involved in EUSALP activities.⬇️

In 2022, the ARPAF III "Made in the Alps" project team contacted the EUSALP Youth Council in order to co-construct a method that would enable them to involve young people in the project.

As soon as the project was drafted, the young people were able to comment on the proposed methodology and make recommendations. One of the aims of the project was to conduct interviews on products made in the Alps. The audience of young citizens of the Alpine region was important for this research, as consumers of the future.

To interview young people, the best solution was to train other young people to carry out the interviews so that they could interview those around them.💡🧠

Training courses were therefore offered to EUSALP Y.C members who volunteered for this project. In order to facilitate the training sessions, the trainers were flexible. They offered the training in several short sessions, they spread the training out according to each person's availability and they used digital tools.

Once the training had been completed, the young people were able to conduct interviews and pass on the results to the project team.

The members of the youth council were then invited to project events to contribute their ideas and opinions.

At the face-to-face meeting of the Youth Council in Lausanne, a team of film-makers came to produce a short film for the project. The aim was to hear what the members of the Youth Council had to say about Alpine products and the memories or sensations they associate with the Alpine region.

You can find the video on our Youtube channel.

Special thanks to the "Made In the Alps" project team for their real skills in involving young people and for the trust they had in the EUSALP Youth Council.

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EUSALP Y.C Interviews - Made in the Alps "ARPAF III" Project Territorial brands that aim to establish 100% local value chains, despite their benefits for territorial development, can result in the proliferation of init...

Last week, we attended the EUSALP annual forum, which marked the end of the Swiss presidency in 2023. 🗓️🇨🇭

A delegation from the Youth Council actively participated in the program of this significant event for EUSALP. Youth participation took various forms, including:
- Representation in thematic roundtable discussions. 💬
- Speaking at the EUSALP 2023 General Assembly. 🎤
- Engaging in discussions with political representatives from Alpine regions present in Bad-Ragaz. 🍸🗣️

This kind of official event, which can be likened to a political summit for the Alpine region, provides young people with a better understanding of the intricacies of politics and international relations. 🌍🤝🇪🇺

As demonstrated by the event organizers, politics within the framework of a macro-regional strategy of the European Commission offers an opportunity to convey messages throughout the Alpine region. To achieve this, it is essential to use the right tools, strike the right tone, maintain balance in one's statements, and ensure precision to confirm that the message has been effectively transmitted. 📣✉️

Once these principles are put into practice, what message would you share with the other members of EUSALP? 🤔🏔️

New article on our website --> https://eusalp-youth.eu/join-our-online-faq-webinar-get-all-your-competition-pitch-your-project-questions-answered/

Join our FAQ Webinar for Pitch Your Project Competition 2023! 🚀🌟

Calling all aspiring idea doers, innovators and entrepreneurs! 🙌📢 Are you ready to take your project to new heights in the Alpine Region with EUSALP ? 💡🏔️✨

Join us for an informative FAQ webinar, where we'll be answering all your burning questions about the upcoming Pitch Your Project Competition 2023! 🔥🤔

🗓️ Date: August 7th 2023
⏰ Time: 5pm to 5.30pm
🌐 Location: Zoom Online meeting

Get ready to:
🔹 Learn who can apply for Pitch Your Project 2023
🔹 Understand the competition timeline and submission process.
🔹 Interact with past winners and hear their success stories.
🔹 Get a sneak peek into the exciting prizes and opportunities awaiting the winners! 🎁🏅

Register now 👉 https://forms.gle/RMKcePCiXx3rKEcr9 ! 🤝🤩

As part of the European project "COWORCare. Coworking with children&elderly in the Alps", the UNIMONT Centre of the University of Milan is launching a map to map, in the rural and mountain areas of the Alps, the spaces of coworking, coworkation and coworcare, and the private care institutes surrounding them in a radius of 10km.

The project is aimed at families and women working in the mountain and rural areas of the EUSALP area to support parenthood and the care of dependent elderly relatives to improve the quality of working life and reduce commuting.
The COWORCare map was conceived as a participatory and constantly evolving tool based on a citizen science approach: anyone navigating it can suggest new spaces or care institutions by clicking on "create a new space"; the space will be published on the map after careful verification by the UNIMONT team that it is consistent with project objectives. The map is in an experimental phase at the moment: during this period, mapping operations will continue, and user feedback will be collected.
If you are a coworker, run a coworking space or a private care institution, or are interested in coworking and coworkation, we need your help: take part in the survey and help us improve the map.
For more information, see the project's homepage, which includes a glossary of terms for better understanding.
take part in the survey https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/umBjWS

create a new space https://unimont-map.cleversoft.it/node/add/place

project page https://www.unimontagna.it/en/progetti/coworking-with-childrenelderly-in-the-alps-coworcare/

Apply now for Pitch Your Project 2023 🏔️🇪🇺

📢 Apply now: PITCH YOUR PROJECT 2023!

This project competition is now open for anyone aged 16-25 with an idea for the of the region.

👉 Find out more and submit your project by 10 September: https://eusalp-youth.eu/home-pitch-your-project/

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A new opportunity with Interreg Volunteer Youth - IVY at the EUSALP technical structure support in Nice!

Maybe you are the volunteer they need 😊

Become an IVY volunteer for the EUSALP - EUSALP YOUTH The volunteer will support the European Strategy for the Alpine Region, a macro-regional strategy for the Alpine area. Created in 2015, EUSALP is based on a joint initiative of 7 Alpine states (Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) and 48 regions. It aims at stren...

A great opportunity for students working on a thesis. Do not hesitate to apply! 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

The Young Academics Award is looking for new candidates! We are delighted to inform you that the Alpine Convention is organising a new edition of the Young Academics Award – the award that promotes young and innovative research on Alpine topics!

Let’s introduce Maxime Bernard who represented France and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes during the last 2 years in the Y.C ⛰️🇫🇷

Maxime is always on the move. He seizes every opportunity that crosses his path. Especially those related to mobility, transport and cross-border cooperation. He is really good at this and will surely have an impact in this field when he graduates.

Finally, Maxime will certainly take a lot of memories and skills from his experience in the EUSALP Youth Council. It is certain that he will keep an eye on the further activities of EUSALP Youth

You can share your message to Maxime in comments ⬇️ ✒️

Today two members of the EUSALP Youth Council participated in the EUSALP Executive Board meeting in Fribourg 🇨🇭🏔️🇪🇺

The young people had received the working documents in advance so that they could contribute to the discussions. They also reacted to the method proposed by the Swiss presidency in order to involve them as effectively as possible. 📑📚✒️

All the members of the Youth Council will be able to discuss the output of this EB meeting at the internal meeting in Strasbourg in April. 📆🚞

You are looking for an opportunity to get involved in your community and have your voice heard? You want to help shape the future of the Alpine region and work with other young people who share your passions and ideas?

Then look no further! The EUSALP Youth Council is currently looking for candidates. 🆕📣

As a member of the EUSALP Youth Council, you will have the opportunity to get involved in exciting projects, voice your opinion on issues that matter to you, and work with great people who share your vision for the future.

In addition, you will gain valuable leadership, communication and collaboration skills that will serve you well throughout your life.

So apply now to join the EUSALPYouth Council and help shape a better future for our region!

ℹ️ This project is co-financed by Interreg Alpine Space and Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Let’s introduce Thomas Wimmer who represented Germany and the Bavaria region during the last 2 years in the Y.C 🇩🇪 ⛰️

Without Thomas the first two years of the EUSALP Youth Council would have been much less effective and organized! All members will agree that he is greatly responsible for the development of the EUSALP youth council. 🙏🏼 💪🏼

Perhaps he is passionate about volunteering? Maybe he really likes long train rides to long technical meetings? Maybe he has a twin that allows him to be twice as productive? 🤔 👬

Our guess is that he is proud to have grown up in the Alpine region, that he wants to share this Alpine identity and that he doesn't want to see his region develop without taking into account his vision and the issues he cares about! ❤️

You can share you message to Thomas in comments ⬇️ ✒️

Thank you gros!

We continue with Achille Ribeyron who represented France and the SUD-PACA region during the last 2 years in the Y.C. 🇫🇷 🏖️

What to say about Achilles! He loves adventure, making memories with other members and making things complicated because otherwise it's not so fun 😜

We remember that he allowed us to celebrate together the second place of United Kingdom at the EUROVISION 2022. 👏🏼 🇬🇧

Well, you got it! Achille is the kind of guy you can count on when you need him! It's really important in a group so thanks for everything! ❤️

Send good vibes to Achille in comments ⬇️ ✒️

In our last article we asked a famous and very neutral A.I to give us 10 reasons why you should apply for the EUSALP Youth Council? All the reasons in this article ⬇️💻🤓

https://eusalp-youth.eu/10-reasons-why-you-should-apply-for-the-eusalp-youth-council-2023-2024/

10 reasons why you should apply for the EUSALP Youth Council 2023-2024 - EUSALP YOUTH The application period is open for the EUSALP Youth Council 2023-2024. We give you 10 good reasons to apply.

You want to join the EUSALP Youth Council for the next term? ⛰️ 🇪🇺 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Now is the time to apply on our website ✅ 🌐

The form takes a few minutes to fill out and then you will be added to the draw to select the next members of the youth council in 2023-2024.

In case you are not selected, we will invite you to join one of the satellite groups of the EUSALP youth council which will keep you in touch with the activities of and allow you to participate more actively. 🛰️ ⛰️

Do you have any questions? We'll answer them in the comments ⬇️ ✒️

We start with Ludovica Spanevello who represented Italy and the Veneto region during the last 2 years in the Y.C. 🔥

In our eyes Ludovica is a powerful woman who generates actions. She is inspiring and she doesn't realize it enough! 💪🏻

In the following post, we will make some brief introductions of the Youth Council members who will be leaving after two years in office.

To ensure continuity, members have the possibility to extend their mandate for another year. At the end of the 2 years they have to leave their place to a new youth councilor.

In the EUSALP Youth Council they have been able to live many experiences such as:

📅  participating in events

💭  meeting together and thinking about projects

💡  bringing their ideas to the decision makers of the Alpine region

🔝 contributing to the development of youth participation in EUSALP

The new application period for the Youth Council will open soon! Stay tuned!

Since 5️⃣ years, the participation of young people in the EU strategy for the Alpine region is growing thanks to the project youth.shaping. 🏔️🇪🇺

Concrete results are appearing and we are not aware of all the changes this is triggering.

There is still progress to be made and more effort to be put into this work.

We are looking towards the horizon with a lot of ideas and motivation for youth involvement in the Alpine region.

📸 .wstd

An article highlighting the speeches made by young Alpines during the AlpWeek 2020 📣🏔

The AlpWeek journal was made possible by the work of CIPRA, Alpine Town of the year, Alpine Convention

Young people speak out for the Alpine Region! - EUSALP YOUTH In 2020, the AlpWeeek event should have taken place in Nice during the closing session of the French presidency of EUSALP. 2021 offers an opportunity to look back at this event in 2020, during which young people voiced their growing concerns about the climate emergency in the Alps.

Mobility is an important topic for young people living in the Alpine region. The EUSALP Youth Council participates in different events to feed its work on this topic. Here is an article about Maxime Bernard's participation in a hackathon.

A EUSALP Youth Council member participates in a mobility hackathon! - EUSALP YOUTH This week, Maxime Bernard, member of the EUSALP youth council, took part in a hackathon to create the “transport ticket of tomorrow”, which was held during the forum of the “Agence de l’Innovation pour les Transports” , at the Cité des sciences et de l’Industrie, on February 7 and 8, 20...

Last summer we organized an hitchhiking challenge during the summer camp in France ☀️🇫🇷 5 teams reached thanks to helpful drivers ☺️

Some members of the EUSALP youth council took part in this challenge and really enjoyed it 😍
They had the idea of creating a bigger hitchhiking challenge in the Alpine region next summer 🤩

What do you think of this idea ? Have you ever participated in this kind of challenge before?

We need your feedback and ideas 💡😉

It is not too late to apply for the Green Infrastructure goes business award 🌿 More information on our website ⬇️

The Green Infrastructure goes business award 2023 is still open for application! - EUSALP YOUTH We are looking for you! Submit your proposal until 31 January 2023! Participation is easy. Enter our website and fill in the short application form.

Looking towards 2023 with so many memories in mind from the youth.shaping. activities in 2022!

I’m sure you have one to share with us, share in the comments below before we drop into the new year ✍️🤩

Have you heard of the European Capital of Democracy ?

We published a short article on our website about this great initiative⬇️🆙

European Capital of Democracy, play a role! - EUSALP YOUTH European Capitals of Democracy is one of the most significant, most ambitious democratic projects in Europe. At its core there are 10 000 jurors spread across 46 countries choosing a new European democratic capital each year.

We thought of those who were unable to attend the 2022 EUSALP annual forum in Trento. That is why we asked a videographer to follow the young participants throughout the event and to produce an aftermovie. 🎥

Enjoy the video and feel free to share it! 🤩

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Young people were active at the EUSALP Annual Forum 2022 youth.shaping.EUSALP boosts youth participation in the EU strategy for the Alpine Region. During the last annual forum of the EUSALP Italian Presidency 2022,...

Youth Council 2022 🇪🇺⛰️
Thanks to the commitment of the young people participating in the
youth.shaping.EUSALP project, youth’s voices were spread during all the annual forum of the Italian Presidency 2022 🤝🇮🇹

Work in progress 🔋😉

Thank you to .official & & for making youth participation more concrete everyday ✊