I AM EUROPEAN

The webhome of “I am European” social campaign is an introduction into an awareness project, which aims to support a more open, inclusive and calm approach to migration and migrants. The project is being implemented in eight European countries, including Latvia, and the project partner in Latvia is Club “The House” – Youth for a United Europe. Club "The House" is the first youth organization in Latvia that primarily informs and educates young people about the European Union. The organization promotes the idea of European unity and the values of the EU – democracy, tolerance, multiculturalism and respect for human rights.Migration is neither good nor bad, it is simply the reality in which we live. Our aim is to invite young people to discuss this issue, gather knowledge and notice the opportunities and challenges that migration brings to our society. The project focuses on raising the awareness of young people through a variety of activities – involving young journalists to develop balanced and fact-based media content and multipliers, including teachers, who carry out global migration education activities. Reaching young people through social media is an integral part of the project, which helps to open up the topic of migration to young people in a more personal and direct way and see people to identify within the stories of the project ambassadors.The social media campaign "I am European" is launched by two young people who share their migration experiences. Beata Jonite, a student at the University of Oxford and opinion leader shares her impressions of studying abroad and the experience she will take back to her homeland, and Alexander William Blomqvist Eliasen, an AFS intercultural volunteer from Denmark who has lived in Latvia for 9 months, talks about his life in Riga from a foreigner’s point of view.