EYOUexit EURemain
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 4 min read
Start date 01-02-2017–End date 30-04-2018
EU Grant–32.026,67 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Learning Mobility of Individuals
Action Type:
Youth mobility
Countries covered–11
Coordinator
One Terrene International
58 Eade Road, Flat 2
N4 1DH LONDON
Inner London
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +44 7760248263
Summary
With the referendum in the UK resulting in the UK on the verge of exiting the EU, we see confusion and distress. What happened and what will happen? How does this affect us? Is there a weakness in the EU? We will examine the meaning of the common market and how this affects all of us. So many countries want access to this common market and even the UK who voted to leave the EU, still wants access to the common market. What is the price of being part of the common market and why is the UK voting to leaving the EU when leaving it would be a disadvantage? We will see the relationship that Norway has with the EU, and how different this is from a normal member of the EU. Is there an advantage to this? Rumour has it that the UK will follow this path, what will the impact of this be on the UK and the EU?
We will look at mobility, one the major factors, believed to give the leave vote its majority. We will examine the Mobility Treaty and see if this has disadvantages to member states. We will also examine how Switzerland tried to abandon the freedom of mobility treaty with the EU, which was never realised. All of these factors have to do with democracy and how it works and how it affects us. Is democracy failing?
We saw that the results of the UK referendum showed a very small margin of difference in the results, showing how democracy works, but also showing that democracy can leave almost half the voting population dissatisfied with the results. We also saw how youth felt cheated by this referendum because they could not vote for such an important issue. Is this yet another statistic showing how young people have no say in their future?
As a result of the UK referendum we also saw, in the media, that some other countries want a EU exit. Is this propaganda or is the EU truly starting to fail? The question boils down to how we measure success and failure. If it was a question of economics only, the EU is a world power economically speaking. If it’s a question of influence on policy, every EU country has a say on EU policy, and even has some liberty to create specific laws for their country, education being one of these. These are only some of the questions we will ask to try to understand why many feel that the EU is not working or failing. Perhaps we will discover some problems that are not in the media, or perhaps the media is sharing different version of reality in different countries.
Our objective is to understand the working of the EU, how it works, why it works and what role we as youth play in it and how we can change the future of our EU, so that we are truly living in a Union.
As a direct result of this project we have seen how young people have a greater understanding of the EU, and more importantly their role as citizens of the EU. We have seen that scepticism of the EU is brought on by media, by feeding on the fears of people, and exploiting the ignorance of people about what the EU really is. We started this project with many people seeing the EU as a separate entity, rather than something that we have all created and that we are a part of. We left this project feeling more European, feeling the obligation to be more active as citizens, as people and helping the EU grow, to bring countries closer together and to work on a better future for all of us.
We saw how the EU invests in youth, and in our countries, helping to make them stronger and better. We saw how EU laws are created to protect us, and to respect our cultures and us as people as citizens of the EU.
We learned the important of our human rights, of our votes, and the European democratic model. We learned that the next steps for our countries and the EU are in our hands, and that we as young people need to be the model citizens that will build our futures.
Partners
ACTIVE GENERATION CYPRUS 🇨🇾 Cyprus
Κύπρος (Kýpros)
🇨🇾 Cyprus
Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work
Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Eteria En Gnosi 🇬🇷 Greece
Vitsiou 5
53200 Amindeo
Δυτική Μακεδονία (Dytiki Makedonia)
🇬🇷 Greece
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +302386023021
BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia
ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37
1067 RIGA
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
Bogazkale Ortaokulu 🇹🇷 Türkiye
Çarşı Mahallesi Hitit Caddesi No:7/A
19310 Boğazkale
Çorum
🇹🇷 Türkiye
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education
Phone: +903644522251
FUNDACJA WSPIERANIA INICJATYW MLODZIEZOWYCH 4YOUTH 🇵🇱 Poland
UL SOBIESKIEGO 4
05 822 MILANOWEK
Mazowieckie
🇵🇱 Poland
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +48501515427
Future in Progress 🇷🇴 Romania
Sud - Muntenia
🇷🇴 Romania
Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work IPSIA - Istituto Pace Sviluppo Innovazione ACLI - Sardegna 🇮🇹 Italy
Viale Guglielmo Mraconi 4
09131 Cagliari
Sardegna
🇮🇹 Italy
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +3907043039 Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimo centras 🇱🇹 Lithuania
Studentų g. 69-1
LT-51393 Kaunas
Kauno apskritis
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37063872000
The Starry Start of Talents Foundation 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
N: 18 bl.63, vh.J, ap.133, Street Bitola
1680 Sofia
София (Sofia)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +359887007090
YouthActivES 🇪🇸 Spain
Andalucía
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Group of young people active in youth work
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