It is an initiative of young people across Europe, supported by the European Commission. It aims to give young people a voice in shaping the online world of tomorrow. See the
'Get involved' section for further information.
Youth (between the ages of 9 and 18 years) from
31 European countries can participate in this initiative.
Ideas should be uploaded via your
country page.
Resources should be uploaded
here. The resources will be moderated, so please allow 48 hours for them to appear online.
Ideas submitted at national level will be reviewed by a European-level youth panel who will select the best of them and publish them on this site. Voting will then be open to identify the top 10 proposals which will form the final Youth Manifesto.
For the resource competition, visitors to the site will view and vote on the resources; this will count for 50 per cent of the final score. A European-level jury will also review all resources and vote on them. Scores will then be combined to identify the top six winning resources.
Your entry could be a video, poster, song or even a poem about your hopes for a better internet. But it must be original (i.e. it must not infringe on anyone's copyright).
Initial ideas should be uploaded via your
country page, and can be submitted in your native language or English. The European-level voting process will take place in English-language only however. Likewise, resources can be uploaded in your native language or English. Winning resources will be translated into English and duplicated in the Resource gallery during October 2014.
Please bear in mind that this is your platform, and your thoughts and ideas are important and will make it richer. They will help foster debate and discussion.
Ideas can be submitted anonymously via your country page.
To
upload a resource, however, you will need to complete a short online form and declare that you are eligible to upload the resource. If you are under 18, you will also need to name a supporting adult.
The creators of the six best resources will be invited to travel to Brussels (with an accompanying adult) to attend the Pan European Youth Panel (and the corresponding Adult Panel meeting for the accompanying adult), a high-level event in the European Parliament and the Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2014. All travel and accommodation costs will be paid. Further information on the Criteria for the selection of youth and teachers to travel is available
here.
Winners of the resource competition will be notified in mid-September 2014.
Travel dates for the winners of the resource competition (and their accompanying adults) are likely to be 4-8 November 2014.
This initiative aims to encourage young people to think about the the risks and opportunities internet presents. A class room discussion will encourage them to think about these issues. To support teachers, we have developed
a range of toolkits and videos.
Teachers can also upload their own resources such as lesson plans, blogs, videos or similar. Resources created by teachers are not eligible for the competition, but they will help to inspire young people.
We welcome your support for this initiative. You can share the information regarding the initiative and the related website links in your network. It could be on your organisation website, social media accounts and elsewhere so that more young people become aware of it. We have also created
multimedia resources for teachers for use in classroom settings that you could use when organising a workshop or a seminar on internet safety.
It will be presented in February 2015 at a high-level event in Brussels. The final Youth Manifesto will also be shared via this website.
You can follow us on
Twitter and
Facebook. This website will also be updated regularly.
Further information on other youth-focused initiatives is available on
Pan EU Youth website.
