Do youth want the future?

About the event

It is almost a truism that young people are not interested in politics and that it is almost impossible to reach them, but the student protests of recent years, the growth of student organisations and their public activity contradict this. The Republican Institute’s youth conference will focus on young people’s involvement in politics and their views on the recent European elections. The conference will also present the results of a new international research project which not only looked at the political activity of young people in Italy, Poland and Hungary but also at the channels through which young people engage with public life.

Programme

10:00 – Opening

Gábor Horn, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Republikon Institute and Milosz Hodun, Board Member of ELF

10:10 – International panel in English

Antonio Casella – R.I.D.E. (Rete Italiana per il Dialogo Euro-mediterraneo) (Italy),
Milosz Hodun – Project: Polska! (Poland)
Márton Schlanger – Republikon Institute (Hungary)

11:30 – Break

12:00 – Hungarian panel

Lili Aschenbrenner, activist, Fridays For Future
Georgina Kiss-Kozma, Research Manager, Institute for Youth Research
Ádám Nagy, youth researcher, Executive Director of Excenter Research and Development Centre
Andrea Szabó, Institute Director, Social Science Research Centre

Technical information:

The event is open to the public, the international panel will be in English and the home panel in Hungarian.
The event will be broadcast live on the Republikon Institute and on the event’s Facebook page.
The discussion will take place in Hungarian and English, and simultaneous interpreters will be provided for both panels.