Welcome to the European Youth Parliament Norway
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is an international educational programme established in 1987. The Norwegian branch is funded and formally administered by the Ministry of Education and Research.
Since 1995, Norway has sent delegates to international sessions of the European Youth Parliament (EYP). At the international sessions, wich are organised three times a year in various locations across Europe,
200-300 young people from approximately 35 European countries
come together to debate regional, European and global issues from a European perspective. The EYP is a politically and religiously neutral organisation, thus
EYP Norway does not take a stand in the question of future Norwegian membership of the EU. Rather, it seeks to promote the debate on Norway's 's approach towards Europe as a whole .
International EYP is administered from Berlin under the guidance and supervision of the Heinz-Schwarzkopf Stiftung Junges Europa. The international EYP homepage can be found
here.
The national organisation in Norway is governed by the 7 member
National Committee assisted by the
Alumni Association consisting of former Norwegian delegates to EYP events.
Our main task is to organise an annual national session with delegations from upper secondary schools across Norway. At this session a jury is present to select the Norwegian delegation for the two upcoming international sessions.
In April 2005, an international session took place in Stavanger, Norway. A link to the webpage of this event can be found
here.
We are happy to inform that all schools selected from the national session
in Tromsø have returned from various international sessions and forum. Kristelig Gymnasium
and Stavanger Katedralskole attended the international session in Dublin
in November 2007, and Melhus vgs and Levanger vgs went to the Hanse forum in Hamburg in
March. Most recently in April, Drammen vgs and Lillehammer vgs went
to the international session in Prague. The feedback from the students has
been positive, and they recommend other schools to attend EYP sessions.
EYP Norway and EYPNAA have been allocated the organising of the international spring session in Tromsø 2010!
The 6th national session was held in Lillehammer and it was a great success. Referat (The minutes of the GA is only in Norwegian)
Pictures: Left, Picture from the 48th internatonal session, held in Stavanger. Right, General assembly from the 5th national session, held in Tromsø.
We are glad to inform that it is now avaliable for schools to apply to the national session of 2009:
The
invitation
Forms for applying in
bokmål and in
nynorsk
More informationa can be found on
Lillehammer '09
Press release
Pressemelding – Europeisk Ungdomsparlament
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