Program
Thursday, 28 September 2023
From 02:30 pm: Arrival/ Registration
Registration at Bürgerhaus Stollwerck (Dreikönigenstraße 23, 50678 Cologne)
02:30 pm - 04:00 pm: Marketplace
04:00 pm: Opening/ Youth Democracy Award Ceremony/ State of the YOU:KO
Official Opening
with
Cemile Giousouf, Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)
Tobias Bütow, DFJW / OFAJ
Youth Democracy Award Ceremony
with initiatives “Löbau lebt” and “Magazin of Color”
State of the YOU:KO
"Your impact counts? - Individual vs. Structural Responsibility”
with
Florian Braun, member of North Rhine-Westphalia's State Parliament
Marie Chureau, climate and social justice activist
The Darvish, artist
Performance bv The Darvish
07:00 pm: Dinner
08:00 pm: Evening Program
Bowling Tournament
Mocktail Mixing
Open Space I
Open Space II
Friendship at second sight – get to know each other
Music jamming/Karaoke
Friday, 29 September 2023
9:30 am: Welcome and Organisational Remarks
9:40 am: State of the YOU:KO
“France, Germany & the world”
with
Florian Staudt, DFJW / OFAJ
Şeyda Kurt, journalist and author
Emilie Tamo Kamguia, Mediterranean Youth Council
10:45 am - 12:45 pm: Workshop Session 1
Morning Movement, Dennis Feldmann
European Dystopia, Paul Langer, Andreas Jacobs (DENK GLOBAL!)
Populism and the Rise of Anti-Feminism, Carolin Klein
Simulation: Small fish on a big hook, Sabine Scherer (DENK GLOBAL!), Youri Bergoug (Sunrise Project France)
Simulation at the European Parliament, Camille, Maison de l'Europe
Social Entrepreneurship: Creating impactful ideas for a sustainable world, Duc Nguyen
(INFINITY Deutschland e.V.), Katharina Berner (Synergese)
Water Restriction is not Science-Fiction, Erblina Selmanaj, Alessandro Agnitti, Mohamad Hashem (Mediterranean Youth Council)
ARTE's Odyssey: Navigating European News and YouTube Success, Kristina Fortsch, Lena Morel (ARTE)
Racism against Rom*nja and Sinti*zzeDenisz Petrovity, Thomas Erbel (Amaro Drom e.V.)
Comunitiy Supported Agriculture: How does it work and what does it take to start one yourself, Zlatka Dimitrova, Shyam Pariyar (Solawi)
12:45 pm: Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm: Workshop Session 2
What’s hope got to do with it? A Zine workshop to rewrite und build our future, Juliane Henn, Lou Rosenkranz
Abortion in the EU - Legal situation in the member states of the EU, Ingrid Kutzner, Nathalie Schneider (YEP)
City Tour: Sustainable Consumption in Cologne, Anna Burst
Atelier d'improvisation clown et danse, Jocelyn BEN ALI, Taina DEZAEL and Enzo TONUS, La vague à bonds
Remote Island, Simultation at NS Dok Cologne
Pottery Art, Marie Weiser
Energy Justice as a Means to Fight Poverty, Kouamé David Zaucyn (OFAJ Youth Ambassador)
Creative Writing Workshop: Ecofeminist Utopias, Laetitia Caumes, Myriam Zekagh (European Alternatives)
Comment passe t-ton d'enemis a amis?, Xavier de Glowczewski
Understanding intersectionality, Pia Ihedioha, Joanne Heller (Magazine of Color)
Lobbying for social justice - how to make your voice heard, Arnaud Bordes, Felicia Graubner (ONE)
MirgationErblina Selmanaji, Alessandro Agnitti (Meditarrean Youth Council)
04:30 pm - 06:30 pm: Workshop Session 3
Tarte Flambée baking Workshop: Discover the flavors of Alsace or Saarland?!, Linnea Martensson, Duc Nguyen
LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers Life experiences, Ibrahim Willeke, Francis Carnot Bugenge (SOFRA - Queer Migrants e.V.)
Riots: Political or apolitical? A Franco-German conversation, Myriam Zekagh, Laetitia Caumes (European Alternatives)
Sketchnotes - Transforming ideas into Visuals, Simon Oesterle
Wie wird man vom Feind zum Freund? 1963-2023: 60 Jahre deutsch-französische "Klischees", Xavier de Glowczewski
Does work define us - and how?, Cornelia Pürschel (YEP), Jade Lagin
06:30 pm: Dinner
08:00 pm - 08:30 pm: Closing plenary of the day
08:30 pm: Evening program
Bowling Tournament
Cinema - POURQOUI ON SE BAT
Dancing like the stars
Karaoke
Mocktail MIxing
Open Space III
Open Space IV
Friendship at second sight – get to know each other
Saturday, 30 September 2023
9:30 am: Welcome an Organisational Remarks
09:40 am - 10:45 am: State of the YOU:KO
“Navigating the unbearable: War, Peace and solidarity“
with
Vassili Golod, journalist
Olha Horkavchuk, Manager for educational projects at CEASC Foundation
Anna Mammedova and Mathieu Lecorney, Rebuild Ukraine Ambassadors
10:45 am - 12:45 pm: Workshop Session 4
Artificial Intelligence and its effect on our daily lifes and the European Union, Christoph Velling (YEP), Hafthor Freyr Lindal (YEP), Fernando Gonzales Criado Leyra
Putting a price tag on GHG emissions, Andreas Gerckens, Alena Hahn (Gemeinsam Europa Gestalten e.V.)
Quality of life, Milena Reichel, Viola Koch (teamGLOBAL)
Asparagus good - everything good?, Lotta Badenheuer, Kim Landfried (YEP)
Pottery Art, Marie Weiser
RAISE: Raising Awareness through Inclusive Sustainable Education, Lisa Sebold, Abdallah Khazene (G.A.T.E)
Renewable energies and nature conservation - conflict or part of the solution?, Rebekka Blessenohl (NABU)
United in Power? Talking about decision-making processes and power conflicts in the EU, Stefan Heinemann
The importance of soil quality through a postcolonial perspective, Azadeh Farajpour, Maximilian Rüger (BetterSoil)
Collective organising for change, Myriam Zekagh, Laetitia Caumes (European Alternatives)
Colonial Footprints: Reflect, Understand, Act, Nicole Amoussou, Abdoul Boukari
12:45 pm: Lunch
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm: Workshop Session 5
DJ Workshop, Anna Burst, Amelie Liebst
Designing a Hate Free & Addiction-Free Social Media, Onur Özgen
Comment aborder ensemble certaines questions liées à la diversité au sein de nos classes?, Diaby Mouhamadou (Balance pour la Balance)
Where has all my money gone? Understanding inflation, Moritz Bartsch (YEP)
Look What I Want To Say - Art Works with Political Messages, Oksana Konechna
Upcycling Paper/Handlettering, Marianne Vézinaud
SDG Game - from local to regional, national, and global, Lisa Sebold, Abdallah Khazene (G.A.T.E.)
Intersectional Critique of Antisemitism, Miriam Yosef, Ina Holev (Jüdisch & Intersektional)
European Election, Laura Arcidiancone (JEF)
KIKO meets YOU:KO, Julia Gottuck, Florian Staudt (DFJW)
Soils - the hidden champions of sustainability, Azadeh Farajpour, Maximilian Rüger (BetterSoil)
United in Power? Talking about decision-making processes and power conflicts in the EU, Stefan Heinemann
04:30 pm: State of the YOU:KO
“GénérAktion - Between traditional and unconventional means of taking action as a young generation"
with
Myriam Zekagh, European Alternatives
Ilies, Green Ambassadors Trinational Exchange
Project ambassadors of YOU:KO
Closing Ceremony
07:00 pm: Dinner
Dinner
09:00 pm: Party
12:00 am: End
Sunday, 1 October 2023
Departure
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Interner Link: Program of the YOU:KO
Speaker
Thursday, 28 September 2023
Opening Ceremony
Cemile Giousouf
Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)
Cemile Giousouf is Head of Operative Division und Deputy Director of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (German: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/ bpb) since January 2019. She coordinates and manages the content-related work and the planning processes in the various departments. Cemile Giousouf studied Political Science as well as Sociology and Islamic Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2008 to 2013 she worked as a program manager for the administration of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2013 she became the first member of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group of Muslim faith in the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundestag). Before joining the bpb Ms. Giousouf worked at the State Agency for Civic Education North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Nordrhein-Westfalen) since 2018.
Tobias Bütow
German Secretary General of the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW)
Tobias Bütow, born 1978 in Magdeburg, has been appointed as the German Secretary General of the Franco-German Youth Office on 1 March 2019. The historian and political scientist worked for the Holocaust Memorial Yad VaShem in Jerusalem, Israel, and the OSCE in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In Berlin, he worked for Radio Eins Freiluftkino Friedrichshain, conducted international youth seminars at the House of the Wannsee Conference and developed exhibitions at the German Historical Museum. In 2010, the DAAD seconded him to the Europa-Institut CIFE in Nice, where he directed a European Studies course and the Mediterranean Program.
Among other things, he is a member of the Académie de Berlin, a board member of the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe, and a member of the advisory board of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO).
Florian Braun
Member of North Rhine-Westphalia's State Parliament
Florian Braun, born in Aachen 1989, is a member of the State Parliament North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017 and currently the chairman of committee for school and education, member of the executive board of the CDU parliamentary group and speaker of the parliamentary CDU members under 40. After his military service with the German Federal Armed Forces in 2008/2009, he studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne from 2009 to 2013. From 2013 until his election in 2017 he worked as Head of Public Affairs for the Association of Germany‘s Optical Fibre Access Industry.
From 2016 to 2020 he has been chairman of the youth organisation of CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2012 he is vice chairman of the CDU Cologne and since 2022 vice chairman of the CDU in the Rhineland region. Since 2016 he is board member of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia.
He supervises several enterprises including the executive committee of broadcasting council WDR (public broadcasting, since 2021), the supervisory board of GEW Köln AG (holding company for energy and telecommunication, since 2020) and the supervisory board of NetCologne GmbH (telecommunication, since 2018).
Marie Chureau
climate and social justice activist
Marie is an activist for ecology and social justice. She got involved in 2019 during the youth climate strikes, with the "Youth for Climate France" movement, the French branch of Fridays For Future. Since then, she has been active in the media, and organizes and participates in marches and actions to take action for ecology and social justice.
Thursday, 28 September 2023
State of the YOU:KO: Your impact counts? - Individual vs. Structural Responsibility
The Darvish
artist
The Darvish, (IG: @thedarvishofficial) is a non-binary Syrian self taught dancer, cultural events and performance parties organizer. After immigrating to Berlin, Germany in 2016 Darvish started exploring more and more with gender identities and artistic expressions and more so, questioning the relationship between social boundaries and performance Art. They're the Co-author of "ZUGZWÄNGE" Anthology Book which handles the stories of a group of activists, refugees, artists, community changers and writers and their own life experiences, currently they are writing an inclusive educational children's story book.
Florian Staudt
DFJW / OFAJ
Florian Staudt holds a MA in European Studies from Sorbonne University in Paris. After work-related stays in Brussels, Washington D.C. and Buenos Aires, he worked as the director of the non-party association Europa-Union and of the Europe Direct Information Centre in Hamburg.
Currently, he is responsible for the area of civic youth education at the Franco-German Youth Office. The aim is to support political and democracy education in the numerous programs and projects of the FGYO in cooperation with its network of 8000 partners.
In addition, he is also a member of the European Commission's Team EUROPE DIRECT Speakers Pool. His field of expertise is the analysis of European policy and Franco-German relations.
Şeyda Kurt
journalist and author
Şeyda Kurt is a freelance journalist, columnist, book author, curator, moderator and speaker.
She writes and speaks about culture, philosophy, politics and left-wing feminism. As a freelance journalist, she works for various media such as Zeit Online and Deutschlandfunk Kultur as well as for different podcast formats, including as an editor for the award-winning Spotify Original Podcast “190220 – Ein Jahr nach Hanau” [190220 - A Year to Hanau] and as a host for the Spotify Original Podcast “Man lernt nie aus” [You never stop learning]. She is a regular presenter* and has worked as a curator for the Goethe-Institut and various cultural events, among others. Her non-fiction book and bestseller “Radikale Zärtlichkeit - Warum Liebe politisch ist (HarperCollins)” [Radical Tenderness - Why Love is Political] was publiFlorian Staudt holds a MA in European Studies from Sorbonne University in Paris. After work-related stays in Brussels, Washington D.C. and Buenos Aires, he worked as the director of the non-party association Europa-Union and of the Europe Direct Information Centre in Hamburg.
Currently, he is responsible for the area of civic youth education at the Franco-German Youth Office. The aim is to support political and democracy education in the numerous programs and projects of the FGYO in cooperation with its network of 8000 partners.
In addition, he is also a member of the European Commission's Team EUROPE DIRECT Speakers Pool. His field of expertise is the analysis of European policy and Franco-German relations. shed in April 2021. March 21, 2023 saw the publication of HASS - Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls [HATE - On the Power of a Resistant Emotion], an experimental essay and bestseller.
Saturday, 30 September 2023
State of the YOU:KO: Navigating the unbearable: War, Peace and Solidarity
Vassili Golod
journalist
Vassili Golod has been reporting for ARD as a correspondent from Ukraine since 2022. Together with Jan Kawelke, he completed a programme traineeship at WDR; the two are founders and presenters of their joint podcast "Machiavelli - Rap & Politics". Vassili studied political science and history in Göttingen and Aberystwyth and reported for ARD from London, Moscow and Berlin, among other places. He also worked as an editor and Tagesschau reporter in the WDR newsroom.
Olha Horkavchuk
Manager for educational projects at CEASC Foundation
Olha Horkavchuk holds a Doctor of Social Sciences (Catholic University of Ruzomberk, Slovakia) and is a graduate of the professional programme "Manager of European Projects Management in the EU Financial Perspective 2014-2020" (University of Social Sciences, Poland). She is a manager of the educational projects in CEASC (Poland) and Head of the NGO “Women's InterAction”, the NGO “Business devepment foundation” and "Diia.Business Centre in Rivne."
Since 2015, Olha Horkavchuk has been studying in the fields of project management, facilitation and Sustainable Development Goals in cooperation with organizations from Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Slovakia. Since 2022, she has been implementing projects to support women and girls in Ukraine, as well as projects for young people and people with disabilities. The projects are supported by GIZ, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, and the British Embassy. Furthermore, she took part in a training programme for youth leaders on countering bullying through theatre technologies in 2022 (Malta, Erasmus+).
Anna Mamedova
Rebuild Ukraine Ambassadors
Anna Mamedova is coming from Ukraine, but she has been living in the Netherlands for the past five years. She is a Rebuild Ukraine Ambassador, part of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) project titeld Rebuild Ukraine Lab. Together with twenty other young Europeans she produced the vision paper «Towards a Sustainable Reconstruction of Ukraine: Youth Perspectives from Europe». Her areas of specialty are international relations and Eastern Europe. She has experience with working on various projects connected to Ukraine, including co-finding a humanitarian NGO delivering aid to Ukraine, setting up a student association for the Adriatic-Baltic-Black-Azov seas region, and participating in the EYP Rebuild Ukraine Lab. The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is a network of young Europeans for non-formal education, intercultural exchange, and active civic participation. The mission is to foster personal growth and empower the next generation of European youth.
Mathieu Lecorney
Rebuild Ukraine Ambassadors
Mathieu Lecorney is coming from France and is 22 years old. As a volunteer, he is a Rebuild Ukraine Ambassador, taking part in the preparation of a vision paper called «Towards a Sustainable Reconstruction of Ukraine: Youth Perspectives from Europe» together with twenty other young Europeans.
In his everyday life, he works for an organisation gathering small and medium enterprises coming from the energy sector. He is also committed as a volunteer in the French organisation of the European Youth Parliament.
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is a network of young Europeans for non-formal education, intercultural exchange, and active civic participation. The mission is to foster personal growth and empower the next generation of European youth.
Saturday, 30 September 2023
State of the YOU:KO: GénérAktion - Between traditional and unconventional means of taking action as a young generation
Myriam Zekagh
European Alternatives
Myriam Zekagh is coordinator of the Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator (YMCA), led by European Alternatives: she works with young activists throughout Europe to create a space of learning and practice around political activism, organising, and community building. Because she believes that decisions are made by those who show up, her focus is on supporting democratic participation, in any way possible.
Before that, she worked in international development in North and West Africa, supporting communities and activists in engaging with their local and national institutions.
Ilies Malfi
Green Ambassadors Trinational Exchange
Ilies Malfi, 23 years old, recently completed his master's degree in Business English. He is an active member of several local associations, as well as an esteemed member of the international organization 'Arc en Ciel NGO.' This affiliation has granted him the honor of participating in numerous youth exchange programs, profoundly influencing his character and shaped who he is today, providing him with the opportunity to train other young individuals and share with them the knowledge he has gained through these programs and the experiences he has lived.
Currently, he is working at a travel agency company for over a year, where he is holding the position of a multitask manager, specializing in sales management.