3.      Workshops

In order to discuss the main issues of the Future of Europe workshops on specific EU-topics were organised in all participating countries. The aim was to prepare the Final Conference in Vienna and select key topics by giving an overview on those problems and questions which arose most during the debates. Workshops taking place after the Conference were considered as a follow up by deepening their conclusions.

Experts were invited to introduce the subject of the single workshop followed by a discussion with the audience. 15-30 participants from different target groups like young people, opinion leaders, ambassadors, representatives of public administration and institutions as well as generally EU-interested people joined each workshop. The single local co-ordinators suggested the topic, organised the premises, invited the audience and promoted the single seminar.

The Workshops dealt with EU-issues mainly based on the national survey reports carried out within the framework of the project. They focused on the challenges of an enlarged European Union considering the main subjects of the Constitutional Convention:

*   A Europe of Values - Contributions to the Constitutional Convention

*   The role of civil society in the process of the EU-reform

*   The Constitutional Convention – Institutional treaty

*   Tripartite – New dimension of the co-operation between  all levels of governance

*   The expansion of EU

*   EU-pro and contra

*   Romania’s real chance to join the EU in 2007

*  Possibilities of Youth participation in the EU of 25

*  Poland – European Values and national Identity

*  The European Convention versus a European   Constitution

*  The European Convention – Institutional reforms and Deficit of Democracy

*  Eercises of Democracy

*  The Future of Europe