Programme “Europe for citizens” 2014 – 2020
Strand 2: Democratic engagement and civic participation

Vote 4 Your Europe is a project in the frame of the European Citizenship programme of the European Commission. In this project, EProjectConsult works together with 8 European partners on democratic engagement and civic participation.

The main objective of this project is to find new tools for citizenship awareness. This will be done through the implementation of workshops that will compare and discuss the political agendas in the beneficiary countries.

The goals for this project are:

• Motivating EU citizens to vote and encouraging their active democratic participation;
• Developing a stronger sense of ownership of the European project;
• Provoking a debate on the rise of Euroscepticism and its implications for the voting process and future of the EU.

During this project, there are a lot of challenges that will be addressed. A few examples of these challenges are:

• The low turnout at the European Parliament elections of 2014 and the ways of motivating people for the upcoming elections in 2019
• Bringing the European Union closer to the citizens making the European Union more democratic
• The need for a dialogue about the future of the European Union and a need for democratic participation

The project will consist of 3 transnational activities In Bulgaria, Portugal and Germany.