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  1. Survey on key issues of the Future of Europe debate based on interviews with personalities from public life in all participating countries (elected representatives, journalists, academics, youth leaders, social partners, NGO representatives, …)

  2. Public Competition: "The Future of Europe: Our Opinion Counts"Text calling for proposals/ideas on the future of Europe will be made known in daily newspapers (at least an 1/8 page add in a large daily newspaper of each country), the publications of the partner organisations, the internet, through posters distributed at universities and a large number of free-cards advertising the homepage

  3. Special workshops on three main issues of the Future of Europe debate will be held in each participating country. People submitting ideas/proposals for the public competition will be invited to join these workshops.

  4. Conference in Vienna: March 28th until March 29th 2003, attended by 15 participants from each country plus an additional number of local participants from the larger Vienna region. The results of the survey, the public competition and the special workshops will be the basis for the content of the conference. More than half of the participants (105) will be young people also attending the preceding Constitutional Convention simulation based on a specially drafted list of individual roles. The results of the conference will be published and will be made available through the internet to a larger public. A leaflet with a short summary of the project advertising the project's homepage will be published in all languages of the participating countries.

  5. Public action around Europe Day 2003, consisting of information stalls in the participating countries. Apart from information material of the European Institutions the project's leaflet and free-card will be distributed. Young people with European experience will be engaging in debates with citizens on the Future of Europe.

  6. During the project a special project homepage will be created at the following address: www.citizens.eu.org. Links to all relevant sites of the partners, the European institutions and the Constitutional Convention will be established and the different project phases will be advertised in the languages of the participating countries.