EU Cookbook: a Europolitical Cooking Talk Show.
An ounce of organic, a cup of CAP, and a smidgeon of subsidies

Can you get an MEP to cook a great European meal for you using EU approved food while explaining the rational behind EU policies, such as regional indicators, agricultural subsidies, and the ban on GMOs. A workshop with food about food.

Nuclear Windmills?
Future energy sources in times of climate change

How should the European Union and its member states tackle one of the most crucial questions of our times — the search for future energy supplies? Should the EU invest in nuclear power or renewable energies? What should be done about declining resources and climate change? What are the roles of environmental lobbies on an EU level? Journalists will dig deep and produce a controversial TV debate.

Breaking into Europe.
Radio news on EU immigration policy

The participants in this workshop will have a discussion about EU policies on refugees and illegal immigration, raising questions such as "how difficult is it to get a visa for the Schengen area"? Does the EU really have free movement of Labour? Should Europe have a harmonized immigration policy? What obstacles are there in the job market for ex-pats and immigrants?

United we stand?
An investigation on people perspective towards the future of the EU

A global superpower? A federal state? A convention of united governments? With the defeat of Lisbon in Ireland, the future of Europe is once again precarious. Where to now? Moreover, while the rest of the world views the EU as a continent of happiness, do EU citizens want it to continue? How do we see it in five, ten or even twenty years? This workshop will create a mini-documentary about the feelings of average people in Brussels going right to the people about what they believe Europe should become, how it should get there, and why.

Have your say!
Bridging people's opinions on the streets with Europolitics. Europarl TV.

How to make institutions listen to European citizens more? "Have your Say" is a format of EuroparlTV that shows a mosaic of citizens' reactions on important issues facing Europe. The participants will have the opportunity to produce a melting pot reportage of "vox pops" gathering impressions and reactions from people in and around the European Youth Media Days that will be streamed on the web TV of the European Parliament. Ready to go on the streets and get in direct line with Europe?

Vote for me!
Your two-day run for the European Parliament

In 2009 the EP Elections will take place. But who cares? Communication is essential to get the message out. In this workshop participants will actively use techniques for communicating European ideas to young voters. Young media makers will put down their pens and become politicians for a day, pretending to be MEPs who are campaigning for the European elections. Participants have to write a personal and political profile, a campaign concept and slogans and interact with voters. The workshop team will report about it in a TV reportage.

Too much yeast in these prices.
An analysis of food inflation, and who’s to blame.

It must have been raining hard on the prices of foods lately, as they seem to be growing and growing. In this interactive report participants will connect inflation to real life, analysing past prices and comparing them to today's.  Participants will also go to the streets, interviewing real people and finding out the real costs of rising prices.

Media Council(ing)
Live reporting on the European Council

What is going on behind the scenes of one of the most important European Union political events? The European Council of Head of State is happening exactly during the European Youth Media Days! A small team of young professional journalists will have the chanche to have a look and report live from the Council Press Room, shoulder to shoulder with the most famous correspondents from Brussels. Ready to discover all the secrets of European correspondents?

The bigger, the better?
A critical look at future EU enlargement

EU enlargement remains a hot topic inside Europe. After the latest expansion towards Central and Eastern Europe, new countries are already in the waiting room for accession. What challenges and opportunities lie in further EU enlargement? A critical look at the accession procedure, the countries currently involved in it and their importance for a new European Union. Participants will explore and discuss the EU accession procedure (what, who, importance, challenges) and the countries currently involved in it (Turkey, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia).

Fear your friends?
How to deal with the rise of nationalism, exclusion and discrimination.

In recent years, we watched a rise of populism, right-wing extremism, nationalism, racism, exclusion, discrimination and fear for others in Europe. In this workshop participants will balance the topic. What is the reason for this rising and how can we deal with this problem? They will create articles that present a message for Mini-Indigo, the little sister of the European cultural lifestyle magazine Indigo.

A Free Press? Truth Hurts.
Telling stories of press freedom and its limits in and outside of Europe.

The European law standards applied in almost all industries do not leave aside journalism.  There is a difference between legal press freedom and actual freedom of the press. This workshop invites participants to share their point of view on how far press freedom should extend. Moreover, they will produce reports on the situation of press in the different EU countries, drawing on various struggles and perhaps their own experiences. The final result will be a publication that will, for once, tell the truth.

EUROpolitan.
The European Women’s Magazine

Are women's issues being raised in the European stage? Is equality of the sexes enshrined in EU law? EUROpolitian, a young, sassy, women's magazine, will address these questions and bring European issues home to women. It's smart and it's sexy. And who knows, maybe your boyfriend might just steal a peak when you're not looking?

Orange
European Youth Media Days event magazine

More than 200 young European journalists gather in the European Parliament to work together and produce media. How do they deal with intercultural issues? How does hands-on European media production work? How do fellow journalists of different nationalities relate to one another? Orange, the EYP events magazine will be reporting on the EYMD.

Teasing Europe.
Political caricatures on EU decision-making process

Laughter connects people of all nationalities and often helps to cross intercultural borders. You do not need an interpreter to understand a smile. This workshop will cross, with the help of humour, the boundaries between the public and the decision-making bodies. Participants will try to give this, (sometimes secretive) decision making process a face by using only pencil and cartooning methods.

Brussels at work.
A photostory of Parliamentary life

Follow an MEP or a EU Bureaucrat for a day! Observe their lives and their routine. Participants will be assigned either an MEP, or part of his or her staff and have the opportunity to look behind the curtain and peer into the daily operations of the EU.  Participants would be expected to create a photo essay of their day.

Minorities through a Lens.
A picture says a thousand words

Focus and capture on film the forgotten minority in the EU, the Roma. Tell the Roma's story through photography, how they live, their struggles, and how they are presented to the public.