Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa (SF)
EU Transparency Register
868091323871-48 First registered on 13 Oct 2016
Goals / Remit
The Schwarzkopf foundation's mission is to support the development of young people into politically aware and responsible citizens by focusing on the strengthening of the European idea and pan-European understanding.
Our aim is to develop a dialogue between young people of 16 and 28 years of age and leading figures from the world of politics, the economy and culture. We provide young people with information about the decision-making process in Europe and make this process visible and tangible and thus beneficial to the education of young people. We discuss European political topics that are important and relevant to young people and in doing so aim to offer the chance to engage in European political thinking and understanding.
To meet these goals we offer lectures, seminars, debates, visits to embassies, exhibition visits, as well as EU Crash Courses and activities of the European Youth Parliament at schools. In direct exchange with experts and decision-makers, young people are able to experience politics up-close and to take part in the political process.
We work with non-formal and informal education, and with a string peer-to-peer approach in all our formats.Main EU files targeted
We regularly coordinate and participate in commission funded Erasmus+ projects in the scope of the program’s Key Action 1: Mobility of individual; and Key Action 3: Support for Policy reform. We are also an accredited hosting organisation for the European Voluntary Service.
Address
Head Office
Sophienstraße 28/29
Berlin 10178
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Lukas Fendel (Executive Director European Youth Parliament)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Anne Rolvering (Director)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
European Movement Germany (EBD)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
EU grant income for closed financial year
250,000 € (Source: Erasmus+)
Other financial info
The Schwarzkopf Foundation is a fundraising based organisation, working closely together with a wide range of partners and sponsors, who fund our activities and programmes. The above break down in funding sources is a generalisation.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
We regularly invite commissioners and MEPs to join our events, to engage in a discussion with young people. This way, we hope to offer them a platform to hear what young Europeans thinks about many current European topics, so that they can take these viewpoints and opinions into account. We do aim to make the voice of youth heard in political decision making, and although we do not engage in direct advocacy as an organisation, we certainly offer our participants a channel to engage themselves, and engage in dialogue with European decision-makers.
One of our main event formats are European Youth Parliament sessions, gathering young people from all over Europe to discuss current European topics. At these events, our young participants work in committees following the committees of the European Parliament, each discussing one current topic within their policy field. The outcome of these discussions are presented in the form of resolutions, which are debated and voted on in a plenary setting. In 2015, about 200 different sessions were organized, each covering 6-15 topics and resolutions. From our biggest and main sessions each year, we send the results and the approved resolutions to European Commissioners and MEPs. This gives the EU-level politician an insight into what young European think about current topics and issues. This is one of our main ways to indirectly influence policy making and make the opinions of youth heard.
We have regularly organized Think Tank events, sometimes directly linked to/in cooperation with a European Commissioner. E.g. in 2012 the results of our think tank were handed over to EC President Barroso and EP President Buzek in Brussels; in 2013 our Think Tank worked for Commissioner Reading who also received the results in Brussels; and in 2014 both Commissioner Andor and EC President Barroso received our Think Tank results on youth unemployment in Brussels.
We regularly coordinate and participate in commission funded Erasmus+ projects in the scope of the program’s Key Action 3: Support for Policy reform. Again, by enabling a dialogue between EU-level politicians and young people through these projects, we indirectly influence policy making.
The best overview of our activities and projects can be found on our website on http://schwarzkopf-stiftung.de/en/
For an overview of the activities of the European YOuth Parliament programme, please visit http://eyp.org/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 02 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject EU youth strategy post 2018 Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)
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Date 19 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Youth participation - volunteering Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)