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Approaching the EU – Practitioners Views
Europolit will host its first workshop, titled “Approaching the EU – Practitioners Views” on January 15th 2011 in Cologne. There will be three Speakers, who will give short speeches about their experiences on how to approach the EU.
Andrew Byrne, wo was the managing director of “Generation Yes”, the irish pro-Referendum campaign will speak about his experiences on how to approach the EU. He has founded and built up the organization together with some friends. He will be able to speak about how to retrieve Information and how to approach them under these special circumstances.
Hans H. Stein is the Director of the Representation of the State North-Rhine Westphalia to the European Union. he will be able to tell about the Role of public Lobbying and the Problems and Opportunities that his position bring with it.
Thomas Traguth is a lecturer of the Jean Monnet Chair of Professor Wolfgang Wessels at the University of Cologne. He obtains a Masters degree of the College of Europe as well as the University of Oxford. He is researching European Integration and will explain some basics of the political system of the EU.
Also the team of Europolit will share their experiences in approaching the EU and will invite all guests to share their experiences as well.
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EU Tutorial
Hey,
today we have something new: Our Video Tutorial which is supposed to show, how the EU works (briefly). I think its a good mix between understandable and informative! It deals with the Codecision procedure after the Lisbon Treaty, so for those of you, who know about this kind of stuff, it might be only a new kind design!
As some of you might have noticed, we have already uploaded this on our webpage. You can see it there in better resolution and appearance!
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Launch
Hey everyone. It’s been done. We launched Europolit. From now on you will find interesting debates, positions and views on politics in the European Union there. Check in at http://www.europolit.net and find out about the debates in the EU.
Right now we’re working on new topics, aswell as to find more positions on the debates we already have. We have decided not to wait, until there are about ten positions to every debate. So we decided to publish now. While we have been working on these first debates one thing became clear: It’s hard to get statements. While one would think that politicians aswell as lobbyists or experts do have a natural interest in getting their views expressed, the opposite has been the case. Most of them don’t find the time to write something. I think, partly this was beacuse the site was not yet online, because we’re not so well known, and of course because we don’t really have any connections to the politicians.
Nontheless we think that there already is interesting content, and you should come and see if this is something for you.
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What I’m doing right now…
Hey, today I will let you know who I am and what i’m doing within the project. I’m student Cross-Media Concepting at Saxion Universtiy of Applied Sciences in Enschede/Netherlands since 2006. Right now i’m working on my final project, ‘Europolit’, for Saxion until i’m finished with studying in the end of August.
I’m in charge of all creative and technical tasks within the project. My main task is the installation of our cross-media platform with a Content-Management-System which fits best to our case. I will choose between Joomla!, WordPress or Typo3. Furthermore I’m going to implement the communication channels we will use, such as twitter, social-media-applications, e-mail newsletter.
Also I develop the corporate identity for our association. I already worked out a logo and a layout-concept for our main page. The logo consists of a company symbol and a word mark. It’s going to be a very straight and clear design. The main colours will be white, grey and purple.
Another task will be to develop an internal system for managing of articles and media. Furthermore i’m responsible for supervision, support and the continuous extension of the platform. I’m developing and realizing our marketing strategies with other team-members.
I think you could all be curious about the final design and of course, I hope you will all like it. In about 8 days you will see…So long, Julia.
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