YOUTH IN PARLIAMENT

As Center for Eu Projects of Governorate of Balıkesir, we have been planning to represent the Project named “Youth in Parliament” in frame of Erasmus+ Key Action 3 Programme: Support For Policy Reforms.The deadline of applicaiton is 1 October 2014.

Key Action 3 : Structured Dialogue under Support For Policy Reform aims to hold meetings between young people and decision-makers in the field of youth.

Structured Dialogue is the name used for discussions between young people and youth policy-makers in order to obtain results which are useful for policy-making. Some of the priorities in framework of this programme, are to promote the active participation of young people in democratic life in Europe and their interaction with decision makers.

Some objectives of our project are; to be able to provide the active participation of the youth to the politics, bring them together with decision-makers, research why the average age of members is generally over 50 and discuss all aspects of this situation with youngsters.

The average age of Turkish Grand National Assembly is 51,6. According to the results of elections in 2011, there are only 19 members of parliament under 40 years old among 550 members. The average age of European Parliament is 55 and the average age of representatives is 57. The young population between 20-35 ages is 19.044.025 and 25.327.536 people is under the age of 18 (they dont have right to vote and stand for election) in our country. Totally 44.371.561 persons are under the age of 40 but we have only 19 members of parliament under the age of 40. The population between 35-70 ages is just 28.450.007 but the members of parliament between these ages are 520 MPs.

We need to prepare this project as we believe that the young generation should take an active role in the society besides they are seen the guaranty of the future.Project activities are planned with the participation of 105 young people from 35 countries for five days in Ayvalık.

The first two days 6 Member of parliament,6 European Member of Parliament who were born before 1980,6 Non – Governmental Organizations ( NGO ),6 Private Sector Represantatives will come together with young people with panel and sessions.The other two days youngsters will do workshops.They will prepeare their declaration documents to the Europeean Parliament, Turkish Grand National Assembly, NGO and private sector in order to present.

By visiting Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara with the 130 participant on the last day of the Project 30 May 2015 between 10.00-17.00 hours, we have been planning to make a presentation of the Project evaluation and its final document.

Our aim is able to increase the authority of the youth in the parliaments, prepare political documents about the %10 of members of parliament under 30 years old and send this documents to the
all parliaments in European Countiries. We are also planning to present this final document in European Parliament in Bruxelles.
Our project is likely to be the biggest youth project in Europe that has been done so far.However we believe that our project is going to take attention in Europe , it's visibility and dissemination activities are going to be at the high level.
Our poroject is take part between 24 -31 May 2015 in Ayvalık.
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