CALL FOR PAPER
Organiser: Young Citizens Danube Network (YCDN) supported by the Andrássy University Budapest
Venue: Andrássy University Budapest, Pollack Mihály tér 3, Budapest
Date: 17th, 18th and 19th June 2011
Conference outline
The Young Citizens Danube Network was founded in July 2010 in the course of the European Union Strategy for Danube Region (EUSDR). It is the ambitious aim of the youth initiative to strengthen the Danube region and therefore to make a contribution to the young generation. The Young Citizens Danube Network is hoping to use the June conference to establish a successful and lasting youth network.
The conference will last three days. The participants shall get the possibility to better get to know each other, partake in interdisciplinary workshops and discuss challenges of the Danube region using concrete examples. Approximately 50 participants are expected. The aim of the conference is to create a dialogue among young people coming from 14 EUSDR countries. This dialogue is supposed to enable the young generation to successfully learn from each other, to exchange their attitudes concerning cultures and the models of democratic participation. Thus, the conference is to be regarded as a pilot scheme for a sustainable establishment of the network.
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The workshop titles respect the main pillars of the EUSDR and are the following:
1. National identity, myths and feeling: Breaking the stereotypes
2. Protecting the environment in the Danube region: Sustainable Development, biodiversity, quality of air and water
3. Building prosperity in the Danube region: How did the countries react to the financial crisis and what impacts does this have on their future?
4. Strengthening the Danube region: How to counteract organised crime (trafficking) in the Danube region?
Submission of papers
Interested students and young professionals are invited to apply for workshop participation by submitting a paper (up to 1500 words) on one of the workshop topics by April 11, 2011. Papers and CV should be written in English (Times New Roman, font 12, double spacing), should not exceed the set word limit, should be practice oriented, and above all, should emphasize the youth perspective to listed topics. Successful applicants will
be expected to present their papers at the workshop introduction session. The YCDN team will revise all the received papers and notify all applicants of the results by mid May, 2011.
Please send your paper to the concerned workshop representative.
Workshop 1: Anja Ster - ster@ycdn.eu
Workshop 2: Peter Kumer - kumer@ycdn.eu
Workshop 3: Jovana Saracevic - saracevic@ycdn.eu
Workshop 4: Ivan Matic - matic@ycdn.eu
The conference fee will be 30€. For additional information please contact the person responsible for your workshop theme.
Thank you very much for your application and good luck!
