EEYP 2018
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Erasmian European Youth Parliament 2018 in Prague
Gymnázium Na Zatlance
02-07 November
About EEYP Prague 2018
Six Days of Powerful Talks
Students from around the Europe
The EEYP Prague is organized by students and teachers from a Prague Grammar School, Gymnázium Na Zatlance, in cooperation with organizers from Erasmian Grammar School in Rotterdam. It is another of series of annual events for active students simulating the European Parliament according to the Erasmian format of EEYP in Rotterdam.
EEYP Prague will follow the same format as former EEYP events. There will be about 100 delegates and organizers from Germany, Switzerland, Romania, the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
The EEYP Prague Organisation Team is extraordinary as it consists of both students and teachers and connects them in a cooperative relationship. This kind of relationship allows an unusual partnership providing both sides with a unique insight and mutual share of experience. The experience and skills are passed in both ways from experienced to inexperienced and from teachers to students and vice versa.
The unique concept of shared responsibilities between teachers and students proved to be benefiting both sides and working well for the event.
About EEYP
What is EEYP?
The students of the Gymnasium Na Zatlance regularly take part in the projects of The Erasmian European Youth Parliament (EEYP). EEYP was founded in Rotterdam in the Erasmian Gymnasium and soon changed into an international project with participants from over 15 countries.
The project strives to simulate the European Parliament, which means that during one week student delegates are divided into committees of different topics ranging from Economics, or Constitution to Defence or Energy. The committees discuss possible solutions to the current issues with the outcome of a resolution. In the middle of the project, the committees are provided with an opportunity to consult their final resolution with an expert of their field, after which they can change or amend their resolution according to the outcome of the debate.
This is a special and unique part of the project absent in similar youth projects. The participants can gain professional experience and international contacts, which they can utilize in their future careers. The events also connect the academic field with NGOs, politicians, and businesses, providing a platform for sharing knowledge and experience in constructive debates.
In the General Assembly, taking place in the final days of the project, each of the committees has to present and defend their resolution. The general voting is the ultimate part where all the delegates express either their agreement or disagreement with the work of other committees.
The objectives of the project are to involve students in extra-curriculum activities outside the classroom and to provide the participants with real life-like experience from business, politics and current issues. The project aims to improve students' communicative skills in English, enhance students' research skills and public speaking.
Other important goals are to connect people from various European countries, as well as support and motivate the participants for further involvement in projects focused on the development of civic and democratic society. The participants come back to their schools inspired and motivated to implement extracurricular activities in their schools and thus contribute to the modernization of European educational system, responding to current needs of the labor market and increasing employability.
Furthermore, former participants often continue participating in other student projects, find internships, and use their new skills from EEYP projects in their jobs in real businesses and NGOs.
For more information please visit http://eeyp.eu/
Why do we participate?
Participants
>80
Topics
8
Days
6
Speakers
>25
Subject Introduction Booklet
The questions and issues addressed in the Introduction Booklet are a starting point to help you focus your research, which you need to carry out before the main project on 2-7th November. There will be eight committees dealing with:
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Defence and External Affairs
European Culture and Education
Economic Affairs
Social Security and Integration
Food and Agriculture
Civil Security: General Data Protection Regulation
Environment: Europe and Plastic Waste
Urbanisation: Environment of Cities
Your studies of the subjects are crucial for your effective work in your committee. The more you discover and learn prior to the committee work, the more fruitful and successful the debating and writing of the resolutions will be. In addition, good knowledge of your opponents’ topics will help you participate actively in debating, attacking and defending speeches in the General Assembly.
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About GNZ
Our school, Gymnasium Praha 5, Na Zatlance 11, is a four-year Grammar School, with a 150-year-long tradition. The main objectives of our school are to prepare students most appropriately for academic studies at universities and to show them the connection between the theory and their educational needs in real life outside the school. The school's philosophy is to develop an independent and creative potential of students so that they could become active and well-informed European citizens.
The school offers various curriculum and extra curriculum educational theme courses including regular summer and winter sports courses, courses with mixed sports and drug-prevention activities, various theme trips abroad focused on understanding the present and history of different cultures, and trips focused on ecological education. The school won the "Secondary School of the Year" award of 2013/14. Its students are very active, having written and published two books concerning the history of Prague and participating in many extra curriculum activities.