The European Values Network (EVN) is a platform open for all who believe, that in order to successfully address global challenges, the European Union should become a political community based both on the will of its citizens and on power of its Member States, while consciously rooted in its values and cultural heritage.
The aim of the EVN is to create a lively network of Europeans, who want to become actively engaged in searching for and formulating of alternative solutions to make Europe freer, safer, stronger and more prosperous. The EVN operates through working-groups on most urgent policy questions, workshop-meetings, e-communication, conferences and summer universities.
The outcome of the EVN will be publication of policy-papers.
Working-group questions for 2007:
1 How should the EU institutions be reformed in order to be efficient and to motivate citizens to a stronger engagement? 2 What should be the borders of the EU and how shall we deal with our diverseneighbourhood?
3 How shall the challenge of immigration to Europe be addressed?
4 How can we comply with responsibility to future generations as far as economy and environment is concerned? 5 What should the EU do in order to reinforce promotion of its interests in the world?
The European Values Network 2007 runs under the auspices of Mr. Elmar Brok.
Some of the guest speakers of the EVN 2007:
Elmar Brok, MEP, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the EP
Josef Zieleniec, MEP, former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Czech Republic
Gunnar Hökmark – MEP, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Eneko Landaburu, Director-General of the DG External Relations of the European Commission
Stéphane Ouaki, Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Commissioner Vladimír Špidla
Program schedule for 2007:
1 Enrolment (12th of February – 30th of March 2007): advertising in 27 EU countries (NGO’s, universities, civil society, public service…), receiving the applications and selecting of approximately 50 participants
2 Meeting in Brussels (13th – 15th of May 2007): first personal meeting of the participants, workshops (working in teams), visiting the EU Institutions, discussions with the MEPs and Commissioners
Asociace pro evropské hodnoty, o.s. -Estonská 500 (budova VŠFS); Praha 10, 101 00, Czech Rep. e-mail: info@evropskehodnoty.cz, http://www.evropskehodnoty.cz
1 E-communication (16th May – 12th of June 2007): research period, participants are preparing their contributions to the final papers at internet-based collaboration tool
2 Final Conference (11th – 13th of June 2007): in Prague, finalizing work in working-groups and plenary presentations, presence of experts, academics and politicians
3 Summer University (8th – 13th of August): in Krakow, to foster contacts between the alumni in order to increase mutual exchange and deepen the knowledge
4 Policy-Papers Publication (beginning of October 2007)
The EVN is organized by the association European Values (CZ) and association Future Europe (PL), with support of individuals from Germany, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.
The association European Values (Evropské hodnoty) is a Czech non-governmental non¬profit organization devoted to active promotion of the European values in the European society. Our vision is a European society aware of the values it is based on and a European political community able to promote them.
Since our foundation in January 2005 we concentrate our activity on educational and analytical work – we regularly organize public debates called “European Club”, an annual international conference (in 2006 devoted to “European Values and Identity for the 21st Century”, Brno) and an annual summer school (“From Identity to European Integration” in August 2006). We see the establishment of a pan-European network of active citizens who want to work on solutions of today’s Europe as a logical step in our efforts to become an active factor in the development of a European civil society.
More information under: www.evropskehodnoty.cz.
The Future Europe association (Stowarzyszenie Europa Przyszłości) was founded in the beginning of 2005 in Poland. Our goal is a safe, democratic Europe rooted in its values, where the freedom of an individual is respected. Our activity focuses on social education and popularization of European identity as a common basis for a European Union society and a successful integration process. Thanks to the fruitful cooperation with Association for European Values we have started cycle of debates called “My Europe”. We see close cooperation with similar NGO’s in Europe as one of the ways how to contribute to building of a common European community.
More information under: www.europaprzyszlosci.org.
More information about the European Values Network 2007:
Asociace pro evropské hodnoty, o.s. -Estonská 500 (budova VŠFS); Praha 10, 101 00, Czech Rep. e-mail: info@evropskehodnoty.cz, http://www.evropskehodnoty.cz
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