Europe is us!

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European Year of Youth. In this episode, we bring you a selection of excerpts from our Euranet Plus Youth Summit, which took place in early December. Entitled 'Europe at play', it brought together MEPs and influencers (moderator Quentin Deschandelliers, Marcos Moschovidis, Lukaš Fritscher, and Karim Hallal Peche).
 
The focus was on what the European Year of Youth has managed to unlock this year, the need to have a 'youth test' in European legislation, but also the concerns and challenges of today's young people, from mental health issues to employment, relationships, social inequalities or climate change, which should be addressed. Finally, policy needs to work on ways to better engage with young people so that they themselves can engage with their future.
 
Journalists from the Europe is us! team also had the opportunity to ask questions to MEPs - listen to this episode to find out more.
Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić.
 

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European Year of Youth. Our 20th episode is a special one as our guest in the European Parliament in Strasbourg was Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, the youngest-ever Member of the European Parliament. The Danish 24 years old MEP is a part of the European Free Alliance/The Greens. She told us what it's like to be in her role and how she looks at the European Year of Youth at the very end of it. She is the vice chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters, a member of four committees in the European Parliament, and a substitute at two of them, including the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Known as a fighter for a green, feminist, and solidary Europe she stressed the importance of making the Digital Euro project as green and as sustainable as possible. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Dmitry Mayer, Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 19th episode, we are talking about the field of artificial intelligence. Alessandro Ciociola, a PhD student in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, and Chief Technical Officer at OccupyAI, was our guest. Artur Panasiuk, a journalist at Polskie Radio, a member of the Euranet Plus network, told us about how high Poland ranks in the development of AI in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective in which we collect comments from journalists across Europe. In this podcast, you can also hear from Blaž Zupan, head of the bioinformatics laboratory at Slovenia's Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics in Ljubljana, who answered if Slovenia is ensuring the safe use of AI among young people. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 18th episode, we are talking about and with the European youth and their experience with media. We talked to Jovan Đukić, a student from Serbia, about the media freedom situation in his country. Andri Disha, a Greek journalist, who was a part of the Youth4Regions media programme, organized by the European Commission, was our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective in which we collect comments from journalists across Europe. In this podcast, you can also hear from Kristina Dimova and Christoph Schwaiger, who told us about the presence of fake news on social media. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 17th episode, we are talking about precarious work. We took a closer look at the situation in France and talked to Yoann Schanzenbacher, a hairdresser who even experienced aggressive situations with his employer. Thomas Rocher from Euradio was our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective in which we collect comments from journalists across Europe. In this podcast, you can also hear Andrey Alexandrov, who shared with us the perspective of a Bulgarian lawyer on this topic. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 16th episode, we are discussing the climate crisis. Can a change on the personal level be one of the solutions to it? How important is the role of young activists? We talked to Simona Meiler, a doctoral student at ETH Zürich, who told us that the role of activists is a theme at academic roundtables as well. Thomas Rocher from Euradio was our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective in which we collect comments from journalists across Europe. In this podcast, you can also hear from Xavier, a young farmer from Belgium, who took over his father's farm to look for sustainable farming solutions. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 15th episode, we are taking a closer look at the role of youth in the process of digitalisation. How do the levels of digitalisation differ in different countries? How did that affect schooling, and how can a young mind find a solution? We talked to Dean Celaj, a Harvard student from Albania, who created a digital platform, which is now used in Albanian public schools. Luana Plesea from Radio Romania explained how poverty created a gap between Romanian pupils who did not have the same access to internet during the times of distant schooling. Alina from Germany told us that she would like to see a subject about digitalisation in German schools. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. The main focus of this episode is on the gender gap; how does it differ in different countries? Is it enough to have women in position to reach equality? How does legislation influence the gap between genders? We discussed the situation in Malta, where a strict abortion law is still affecting society. How can we spot the gender gap at the workplace? Amée Zoutberg, a journalist from the Netherlands provided us with her observations. Belle de Jong, a content creator from the Netherlands, who lived and worked in Malta and then changed it for Belgium took us on a tour through her experiences while explaining the impact of the gender gap in different environments. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. For this special episode, Youth and politics, we went to Strasbourg to talk to Niklas Nienaß, a 30-year-old German Member of the European Parliament from the Greens, about his experience of being a young politician. We talked about the priorities he is focusing on, about his workdays, the ways young politicians work in teams with older colleagues, the European Year of Youth, and the importance of not forgetting about youth after the year of 2022. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European Year of Youth.
The podcast discusses themes that interest the youth: from the problem of expensive housing to traps on social media, remote schooling, participation in politics to job opportunities and the importance of mental health.
 
In each episode, we host a guest who describes his experiences through the perspective of a young person. By talking to youth from different countries, we try to include as many different views.
 
In the twelfth episode, we are looking for relaxing holiday destinations. Which are the best ones in Montenegro? Our guest: Katica Nišavić.
 
In our regular section The Voice of Gen Z, we find space for voices of young people around Europe that are closely connected with the discussed theme. This time, we are travelling to Bulgaria, where Kristiyan told us why he enjoys travelling by train.
 
In our regular section The Watchdog’s Perspective, we are talking to journalists, the watchdogs of the society, from different countries in order to better understand different environments and see the bigger picture of occurring problems. Jonė Sąlygaitė from Žiniu radijas, based in Lithuania, presented a few must see destinations in Lithuania.
 
Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić.