How to Brand Europe: Proposals from a Young Professionals Seminar
Europe is no easy sell. Most of its citizens identify far more closely with their home country than they do with Europe. The European Union and its institutions seem remote…
Young Professional Seminars
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United Europe’s most important goal is to win the younger generation over to our idea of a united, competitive and diverse Europe. This is why we consider the Young Professional Seminars (YPS) to be our flagship project. Two or three times a year, we invite 20 to 25 outstanding young Europeans to a weekend seminar to discuss European topics of particular relevance to the next generation. On the page of the Young European Voices United Europe also publishes opinions and views of participants of our YPS.
Please find below the summaries of our past seminars.
Facing a Dangerous World: A Sobering Debate at a Young Professionals Seminar
Over the past few years, the world around Europe has become much more dangerous. What a contrast to the profound optimism of the 1990s! Of course, people in their late…
A Young Professionals Seminar About a Diverse and Deeply Divided Europe
Switzerland is a good place to be reminded of the fact that Europe is more than the European Union. Europe is, of course, a geographic entity that includes countries like…
United Europe’s first Young Professionals Seminar
What an extraordinary amount of learning, thinking, debating and networking you can fit into 24 hours! On April 4 and 5, 2014, twenty-one young Europeans from different countries and different…