CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Members of the Steering Group Power Shifts - Reflecting Europe‘s Energy, 2015 - 2017
The project “Power Shifts – Reflecting Europe’s Energy” is a project by the European Youth Parliament and the Schwarzkopf Foundation in cooperation with the RWE Foundation. Throughout Europe it enables young people to monitor, inform themselves and debate about European energy policy. The project will focus on the diversity and interdependency of energy policy on the European level, while France, Poland and Germany will serve as national example cases. Within the project, young people in the network of the EYP will monitor energy policy in Europe and inform themselves and debate about current trends and discussions in this field with relevant experts and decision-makers. Led by a steering group of young people who will further develop the academic content of the project, the main activities of the project will be three academic forums in Lyon, France in 2015, in Warsaw, Poland in 2016 and in Germany in 2017. These countries embody relevant national cases for comparing long term strategies toward energy transition and agenda setting in the European Union. WE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR 3 EYP ALUMNI TO JOIN THE WORK OF THE STEERING GROUP
The steering group The steering group will consist of 10 active members with different responsibilities. The group will be coordinated by Kerstin Eckart from the International Office of the EYP in Berlin and include one representative from each involved National Committee actively observing the work of the group and mainly getting involved in discussions on session formats, topics and EYP related issues. The involved NCs are France, Poland and Germany. Furthermore the group will encompass 6 young “experts” that focus on the content work and academic monitoring tasks. The “experts” will be composed both of EYP alumni and/or PhD students or young people who would add a valuable mind-set to the group. This mind-set could be of a communicative, cultural, technical or young professional nature. With this we hope to put together a group of people with interdisciplinary backgrounds. The group itself will define its working methods, a timeline and the main problems as well as guiding questions they want to tackle during the three years. Throughout the project, the steering group will be publishing regular background papers on the different aspects of European energy policy. They have to agree on a credible framework and strive for a good link between their work and the three academic forums. The steering group’s concluding product will be a policy summary, which is to set the basis of the discussions during a final event in Brussels. Members of the steering group are expected to continuously contribute to the work of the group for the upcoming two and a half years and join two physical meetings per year. Expenses for the meetings will be covered. N.B. Please note that we aim to find alumni who are willing to join the steering group until autumn 2017! Please indicate your availability in the application form. European Youth Parliament, Sophienstraße 28-29, 10178 Berlin, Germany. www.eyp.org. info@eyp.org