COMUNICATION

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Research Forum on Social and Legal Sciences of the University of Extremadura are organising the course “Youth and Europe: The Past, Present and Future of Building a Peaceful Continent”, which will be held from 13 to 15 July. Its aim is to examine youth throughout the process of European construction. (11/07/2022)

This course, linked to the training programme Campus Yuste, is directed by Enrique Hernández Díez, Administrative Law professor at the University of Extremadura and a member of the Euro-Ibero-American Alumni Network of Yuste, and Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos, Yuste Foundation’s head of European Affairs and delegate in Brussels.

Coinciding with the celebration of the European Year of Youth, this course is a wonderful opportunity to delve into and analyse the situation of European youth, their role and challenges.

This will bring together European experts such as Howard Williamson, full professor of European Youth Policy at the University of South Wales and member of the Advisory Group of the Pool of European Youth Researcher of the Youth Alliance of the Council of Europe and the European Union; Enrique Moradiellos García, full professor of Contemporary History at the University of Extremadura and member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste and the Royal Academy of History; Pablo Simón, professor of Political Sciences at the Carlos III University of Madrid; Mariam Martínez-Bascuñán, professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid, specialist in Political and Social Theory and Feminist Theory and former opinion director of the newspaper El País.

The course will also be attended by Joël Kotek, political scientist and historian at the Free University of Brussels; Tomaž Deželan, professor of Political Science at the University of Ljubljana; Jean Monnet professor and European Youth Researcher at the Council of Europe; Filip Coussée, professor at the University of Ghent; Patrick Burke, president of ERYICA; María Andrés Marín, director of the European Parliament’s Office in Spain; David Lafuente, Deputy Director-General of Internal and External Cooperation at the INJUVE Youth Institute; Elena Ruiz Cebrián, president of the Youth Council of Spain; Luis Pedernera, former president and current member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child; Nahi Drammeh, Youth Ambassador of ONE Global Activists; Karim Hallal Peche, from the Migration Policy Group in Brussels; Maria Rodriguez, member of the Board of the European Youth Forum; Maryna Zokhedub, director of Red Cross Youth Ukraine, and her counterpart in Spain, Lucia Chocarro, and Andrea G. Henry, State School Councillor and president of the State Student Confederation, among others.

Youth has received particular institutional attention in the European area of integration and cooperation since the 1950s. Since then, the situation of the different generations of young people in the EU has evolved and has changed significantly, but two factors remain of particular importance that warrant particular attention to this sector of the population: on the one hand, the incorporation of citizenship into the full exercise of civic rights occurs around young age and requires a gradual process of explicit accompaniment and adaptation of institutions to their different realities; and on the other hand, the generation gap between young people and the rest of the population persists and has increased significantly in recent decades, especially in economic, cultural and political terms.

VISIONS OF YOUTH

This course will, therefore, offer a vision of youth from four complementary perspectives: one that is historical, one from the point of view of young people themselves, as political actors, a third perspective from the institutions and finally from the perspective of the society that belongs to another age group.

This training session, which will take place in Spanish and English, will be held at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste, where students can listen to and participate in the scheduled presentations and round tables and share experiences with European experts on youth.

In addition, Campus Yuste offers an online version of all its courses, thus opening a window to the world with the live broadcast through its YouTube channel. People from Austria, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Spain Turkey and Ukraine have registered in this course. Additionally, all those interested can follow the course via Yuste Foundation’s YouTube channel.

This course, included in Yuste Foundation’s training programme Campus Yuste, is part of the University of Extremadura’s International Summer Courses and counts with the collaboration of the Regional Committee of the European Movement of Extremadura, the Research Group on the History of Present Time of the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Extremadura, National Heritage, the Regional Government of Extremadura and the Provincial Councils of Cáceres and Badajoz.