In the current crisis Europe finds itself facing declining support for the integration process; EU citizenship can reinforce citizens’ resilience and their appurtenance to a community of Europeans and thus embody a countermodel. Yet, while promising citizens novel opportunities and rights, challenges to the citizenship status in the EU continue to persist. Bottom-up action is needed. For that reason, 10 NGOs, cultural & civic organisations, universities and networks have joined forces since 2017 to come to a joint learning model for their students, their audiences, clients, stakeholders and similar organisms everywhere in Europe.
- Farid Tabarki is the founding director of Studio Zeitgeist
- Merel Mathey is director of Cameretten, the oldest and largest cabaret festival in the Netherlands
- Oeds Westerhof was director of Leeuwarden-Friesland European Capital of Culture 2018, and is Founding Partner of Common Ground – Common Sense
- Dion van den Berg is head of the Europe team at PAX for Peace
- Miguel Ángel Martín Ramos is head of European Affairs and Brussels Delegation at Fundación Academia Europea e Iberoamericana de Yuste (Spain)
- Kathrin Deventer is the Secretary General of the European Festivals Association (EFA).
- Izabella Agárdi is historian, and full-time Researcher and Academic Program Coordinator at Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK), Hungary