Unboxing Europe – Unlocking the EP Elections 2024

Creating empowering materials for first-time voters - envisioned by young people, for young people.

Within “Unboxing Europe – Unlocking the EP Elections 2024”, the aim was to create an innovative tool that informs, empowers and engages especially young voters with the European Parliament elections in 2024.

By providing them with low-threshold materials, easily understandable content and information surrounding the EP elections in 2024, they will be empowered and enabled to participate actively and consciously in the upcoming elections. The tool was conceptualised for and by young Europeans within a co-creation seminar that took place in Berlin in March 2024.

PROJECT INSIGHTS

At Unboxing Y Europe, young people from various countries and locations collaborated to independently develop an innovative toolbox for the European elections. The group was completely free to conceptualise and implement their own ideas and visions and were merely guided by experts through the process. All results and ideas came from their own experiences and reflections as well as discussions with students.

The co-creation workshop consisted of the following elements:

design thinking introduction
creation of personas
interviews and needs assessment with students from the Berlin area
discussion with experts from youth organisations regarding the elections and their work
conceptualisation and implementation of the final tool
a guided tour through Kreuzberg focusing on „lived democracy“

WORKSHOP RESULTS

The results of their work can be found on the website they created themselves: www.youngvoters.de.

On the website you will find:

• Experiences and information from and for first-time voters

• Links to teaching and learning materials

• Insights into the European elections from various perspectives

• Materials on the topics of democracy, rights, and the EU Get inspired along with your students.

We hope that this will help us mobilize and effectively inform many new voters.

PROJECT CONCLUSION

In order to create a final product that can both be used in and beyond 2024, the results from the Unboxing Y Europe seminar were gathered into a digital and interactive toolbox. Further information regarding the EP elections 2024, its results and further – potential – implications were added as well to give a broader overview.

The aim of this is to inspire and empower both learners and educators in order to keep democratic processes visible and understandable to all.

Explore the interactive toolbox by clicking on the image below.