Unboxing Europe – Unlocking the EP Elections 2024
Creating empowering materials for first-time voters - envisioned by young people, for young people.
Within “Unboxing Europe – Unlocking the EP Elections 2024”, the aim was to create an innovative tool that informs, empowers and engages especially young voters with the European Parliament elections in 2024.
By providing them with low-threshold materials, easily understandable content and information surrounding the EP elections in 2024, they will be empowered and enabled to participate actively and consciously in the upcoming elections. The tool was conceptualised for and by young Europeans within a co-creation seminar that took place in Berlin in March 2024.
PROJECT INSIGHTS
At Unboxing Y Europe, young people from various countries and locations collaborated to independently develop an innovative toolbox for the European elections. The group was completely free to conceptualise and implement their own ideas and visions and were merely guided by experts through the process. All results and ideas came from their own experiences and reflections as well as discussions with students.
The co-creation workshop consisted of the following elements:
- design thinking introduction
- creation of personas
- interviews and needs assessment with students from the Berlin area
- discussion with experts from youth organisations regarding the elections and their work
- conceptualisation and implementation of the final tool
- a guided tour through Kreuzberg focusing on „lived democracy“
RESULTS
The results of their work can be found on the website they created themselves: www.youngvoters.de.
On the website you will find:
• Experiences and information from and for first-time voters
• Links to teaching and learning materials
• Insights into the European elections from various perspectives
• Materials on the topics of democracy, rights, and the EU Get inspired along with your students.
We hope that this will help us mobilize and effectively inform many new voters.
UPCOMING
The final results are currently translated into a digital toolbox which will add further information to the content that was developed for the website. The aim is to create an additional tool, that summarises most important information with regard to democratic rights, gives insight into election processes and underlines important findings or results from the EP elections in 2024.
The results can be found here in August 2024.
The project was co-funded through the CERV programme and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung).
