Copenhagen 2012March 27rd- April 1st, 2012

Model European Parliament

Baltic Sea Region

Copenhagen 2012

Dear MEP BSR Copenhagen delegates, teachers/directors/organizers and guests,

We come together here in Copenhagen, Denmark this week to discuss current political issues reaching across frontiers and cultural differences. Issues which influence us all to a greater extent than most are aware of. As we speak, Denmark holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the seventh time in history. In what is probably the most challenging time in the history of the European Union, it is now more than ever, an important responsibility. Due to the extensive crisis we are currently facing, many difficult decisions have to be made. More than ever, there is a need for all European countries to support each other in order to ensure future collaboration and mutual respect. With this in mind, time for reflecting, discussing, and understanding each other is vital. It is indispensable to spend time and energy in listening to one another in order to encourage further co-operation between countries in the European Union, and not least between the countries of the Baltic Sea region.

Currently we are facing many challenges which should be dealt with by regional co-operation. One of many issues that come to mind is youth unemployment. In the light of past years ´ economic hardship, there is an urgent need to address the severe problems caused by the continuous drop in youth employment in many European countries. The subject will be covered in this parliamentary session by The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy will address another interesting and highly relevant issue concerning the question of how to maintain a European social model in the future. How can we ensure a continuous growth in innovation, research and new technology, to help us face the challenges of globalization?

In continuation The Committee on Culture and Education will attend to the question of how young people are educated to become global citizens. In a globalized world cross-border cooperation is indispensable. In order to facilitate international communication and collaboration, it is necessary to incorporate such an understanding into the educational systems of Europe.

The Committee on Poverty and Exclusion will discuss how the European countries can improve development policies, in order for the much needed humanitarian aid to be effective in helping developing countries out of poverty. Since The European Union is a big trade organization and plays a dominant role on the international markets, it is important to be aware of the effects our policies have on trade and possibility of growth especially in developing countries.

Last, but not least, it is of uttermost importance to address the incessant environmental challenges we are all facing. The Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will deal with the question of how to create a sustainable environment in the cities and regions of Europe. Although it is an issue that has been discussed continuously for many years, it is without doubt still very “hot”, so to speak.

In conclusion, it is obvious that you are here to discuss important issues of today’s modern world. You are here to learn from each other, to exchange ideas that are vital for the future of Europe. I strongly urge you all to take this unique opportunity to express and develop your ideas in co-operation with other young students from Europe. Last but not least, I urge you to enjoy this week to the full; it will pass more quickly than you think. - Welcome to The Model European Parliament Baltic Sea Region 2012 in Copenhagen!

Sincerely,

Petra Buer Gram, President of the General Assembly

MEP Session in Copenhagen March 27-April 1, 2012

Tuesday 27.3
Arrival of delegates and teachers before 17.00 at Rysensteen Gymnasium,

Tietgensgade 74, 1704 København V

Transfer to Copenhagen City Hostel/Host families pick up guests

Teachers and directors in host families or at Hotel Ansgar, Colbjørnsensgade 29, 1652, Copenhagen,

Danhostel Copenhagen City, H. C. Andersens Boulevard 50
1553 København V

Wednesday 28.3
08.30Arrival of all delegates atChristiansborg, 1240 København K

09.00 Opening Ceremony atChristiansborg, The Danish Parliament

Welcoming remarks by Ms Nina Nørgaard, MEP BSR

Speakers:

  • Mr. Dan Gustafsson, Chairman of MEP BSR
  • Ms. Sofie Carsten-Nielsen, Member of the Danish Parliament
  • Mr. Henrik Gerner Hansen (European Parliament Information Office/DK)
  • Mr. Hálldor Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of Nordic Council of Ministers
  • Heads of Delegations from participating countries

11.00 Teambuilding/transfer to committee locations

12.00 Lunch
13.00-16.30 Committee work (please see attached sheet)
Separate program for teachers/directors

Optional visit to the National Museum of Denmark

16.00Board Meeting at Hotel Ansgar

Dinner in host families/hostel

Thursday 29.3
09.00-16.00Committee work cont./Lunch

Resolutions to be handed in at 16.00/Correction Panel/Printing
19.00-21.30 Dinner for delegates, teachers /directors in staff room

CulturalEvening at Gefion Gymnasium, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K

Friday 30.3

08.50Pick up by busses from Herfølge Turistfart at Hovedbanegården/Central Station (back entrance), Reventlowsgade

09.00-17.00Visit to Kokkedal Golf Club and

Louisiana Museum/Northern Zealand

Lunch/ National Delegationmeetings included

18.00Dinner in host families/hostel

Saturday 31.3
08.45Arrival of all delegates

09.00-16.00 General Assembly at KøbenhavnsRådhus (City Hall), Rådhuspladsen, København K

Speakers:

  • Mr. Hans Lindemann, MEP BSR
  • Ms Petra Gram, President of the GA

Three resolutions in the morning.

12.30-13.30Lunch

Two resolutions in the afternoon

Closing remarks by Ms Nina Nørgaard, MEP BSR

19.00 Buffet dinner at Sankt Annæ Gymnasium/Social evening, Sjælør Boulevard 135, 2500 Valby

Sunday 1.4 Departure all delegations

Issues MEP BSR Copenhagen 27.3 – 1.4.2012

I Committee on Employment and Social Affairs/CP Gideon Arnold DE

The question of youth unemployment

European Parliament Information Office in Denmark, Gothersgade 115, 1123 København K.

II Committee on Industry Research and Energy/CP Anna Katharina Wiesinger AU

The question of how to maintain a European social model through innovation, research,

andnew technologies

Energistyrelsen, Amaliegade 44, 1256 København K

III Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety/CPHanna Ojanen FI

The question of creating sustainable environments (architecture/transport e.g.) in cities/regions

Lundbeck A/S, Ottiliavej 9, 2500 Valby

IV Committee on Culture and Education/CP Lawand Namo DK

The question of educating young people to become global citizens

Wednesday 28/3 Gefion gymnasium, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K

Thursday 29/3 Nordic Council of Ministers, VedStranden 18,1061 København K,

V Committee on Poverty and Exclusion/CP Konrad KsiążekPL

The question of development policies and humanitarian aid

Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, Sjælør Boulevard 135, 2500 Valby, building A room 011

For preparation please study the EU2020 plan: and

Welcome words/ documents relating to the 5 committees modelled on the European Parliament committees:

Delegations

Austria (accompanying teacher: Linda Horvath-Sarrodi)

Christina Ortmair
/ Klemens Schauer

Ronja Reinhardt
/ Renée Zajic

Bernhard Kessler

Belgium (accompanying teacher: Nick Verwimp)

LiesbethBrants
/ Charlotte Dupon

Denmark

Sabrina Stæhr
E-mail: / Rasmus Reeh
E-mail:
Amalie Tom-Petersen
E-mail: / Malene Hornstrup Jespersen
E-mail:
Andreas Victor Ellegaard Ettrup
E-mail: / Claudia Pérez Tidmand

Lasse Maarup Thomsen
/ Sigrid Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg

Louise Warberg
/ Kirstine Bukhave

Estonia

Karl Reinkubjas
/ Mihkel Veski

Karl Andreas Sprenk
/ Maria Kristiina Prass

Finland(accompanying teacher:Liselott Sundbäck)

Eleanora Alen
/ Nette Leikas
Tatu Strengell
/ Joel Oranen

Emmi Halmesvirta
/ Ina Kråkström

Pilvi Villa
/ Cecilia Alameri

Maria Rossinskaya

Germany(accompanying teacher: Steffi Kruschel)

Teo Kamstra
/ Sophie Pötzsch

Alexander Göbel
/ Leu Huang

Franziska Böttcher
/ Sophia Mlejnek

Dominik Casper
/ Nikita Steinmann

Felix Caspari

Iceland (accompanying teacher:Ægir Karl Ægisson)

Arnór Sindri Sölvason
/ Guðni Friðrik Oddsson

Magdalena Margrét Jóhannsdóttir
/ Sara Dögg Margeirsdóttir
Sölvi Logason

India (accompanying teacher: Jyoti Arora)

Disha Kameldeep
/ Shweta Srinivas Pokkunuru

Monisha Agarwal
/ Devika Jain

Radhika sharma

Poland(accompanying teacher:Kinga Marulewska)

Wiktoria Vowles
/ Ewa Szołkiewicz

Anna Szczepanska
/ Dorota Chruscinska

Zuzanna Kwiatkowska
/ Jakub Czapiewski

Wojciech Zielinski

Serbia (accompanying teachers:SinišaVukadinovic)

Nemanja Čigoja
/ Luka Šećerović

Natalija Katić
/ Miloš Damnjanović

Stefan Jević

Sweden(accompanying teacher:Malin Käck)

Louise Lundqvist
/ Nike Müller-Brunotte

Louise Wibom
/ Elsa Fröslin

Filip Holmström
/ Max Richnau

Fredrik Dahlborn
/ Anton Niemi

Rose-Marie Kaggiri

President of the General Assembly

GA President Petra Buer Gramand Vice President Sofie Jürs

Committee Presidents

Committee onEmployment and Social Affairs

CP – Gideon Arnold

Committee on Industry Research and Energy

CP – Anna Katharina Wiesinger

Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

CP –Hanna Ojanen

Committee on Culture and Education

CP – Lawand Namo

Committee on Poverty and Exclusion

CP –Konrad Książek

Participating schools

Austria

WRG Wels
Vogelweiderstraße 2-4
Wels 4600
07242 47428-0 / Europagymnasium Baumgartenberg
Baumgartenberg 1
Baumgartenberg 4342
Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck
Angerzellgasse 14
Innsbruck 6020 / Bundesgymnasium Bludenz
Unterfeldstraße 11
Bludenz 6700

Belgium

Sint-Gummaruscollege
Kanunnik Davidlaan 10
Lier 2500
03 489 24 56 / Sint-Lodewijkscollege
Magdalenastraat 30
Brugge 8000
050406840

Denmark

Sankt Annæ Gymnasium
Sjælør Boulevard 135
Valby 2500
+45 36 46 62 22 / Gefion Gymnasium
Øster Voldgade 10
1350Copenhagen K
+45 33964141
Svendborg Gymnasium
A.P. Møllersvej 35
Svendborg 5700
+45 63 21 31 41 / Rysensteen Gymnasium
Tietgensgade 74
København 1704
+45 33 24 43 11

Estonia

Rakvere Gümnaasium
Vabaduse 1
Rakvere 44316
+ 3723223684 / University of Tartu
Ülikooli 18
Tartu 50090
+372 737 5100

Finland

Kauniaisten lukio
Kasavuorentie 1
Kauniainen 02700 / Viikin normaalikoulun lukio
Kevätkatu 2
Helsinki 00014 Helsingin yliopisto
Gymnasiet Grankulla Samskola
Västra skolstigen 3
Grankulla 02700 / Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu
Isonnevantie 8
Helsinki 00320

Germany

Christianeum
Otto-Ernst-Straße 34
Hamburg 22605
+49 40/4 28 88 28 31 / Leibnizschule
Zietenring 9
Wiesbaden 65195
Max-von-Laue Gymnasium
Südallee 1-9
Koblenz 56068
+49/261/914830 / Hermann-von-Helmholtz Gymnasium
Kurfürstenstraße 53
Potsdam 14467
+49-331-2897580
Latina August Hermann Francke
Franckeplatz 1, Hs. 42
Halle (Saale) 06110
+49-345-4781200 / Edith Stein Schule Erfurt
Tromsdorffstraße 26
Erfurt 99084
+49 0361 576890
Hochwaldgymnasium Wadern
Am Kaisergarten 1
Wadern 66687 / Anton-Philipp-Reclam Gymansium
Anhalterstr. 1
Leipzig 04129
+49 0341 9 18 82 77 0
Friedrich-Engels Gymnasium
Emmentalerstraße 67
Berlin 13407
+49 0304955056

Iceland

Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurnesja
Sunnubraut 36
Reykjanesbær 230
4213100

India

Amity International School
E-27,Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
41888315

Poland

III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Marynarki Wojennej RP
Legionów 27
Gdynia 81-405 / Zespół Szkół Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika Gimnazjum i Liceum Akademickie
ul. Szosa Chełmińska 83
Toruń 87-100
(0-56) 655-55-60

Serbia

Deseta gimnazija "Mihajlo Pupin"
Antifašističke borbe 1a
Beograd 11070
+381113114142 / Prva beogradska gimnazija
Cara Dušana 61
Beograd 11000
+381113282456

Sweden

Viktor Rydbergs Gymnasium
Viktor Rydbergs väg 29
Djursholm 18262
086222110 / Thorildsplans Gymnasium
Drottningholmsvägen 82
Stockholm 112 00
Gustavsbergs gymnasium
Idrottsvägen 4
Gustavsberg 134 81
08-570 485 30

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

The question of youth unemployment

Committee President: Gideon Arnold

Delegates:

Monisha Agarwal IN

Miloš Damnjanović RS

LiesbethBrants BE

Sara Dögg Margeirsdóttir IS

Andreas Ettrup DK

Sabrina Stæhr DK

Mihkel Veski EE

Filip Holmström SE

Anton Niemi SE

Nikita Steinmann DE

Felix CaspariDE

Anna Szczepanska PL

Wiktoria Vowles PL

Eleanora Alen FI

Nette Leikas FI

Klemens Schauer AU

Committee on Industry Research and Energy

The question of how to maintain a European social model through innovation, research,and new technologies

Committee President:Anna Katharina Wiesinger

Delegates:

Disha Kameldeep IN

Luka Šećerović RS

Sölvi Logason IS

Kirstine Bukhave DK

Louise Warberg DK

Karl ReinkubjasEE

Louise Lundqvist SE

Alexander Göbel DE

Sophie Charlotte Pötsch DE

Wojciech Zielinski PL

Emmi Halmesvirta FI

Bernhard Kessler AU
Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

The question of creating sustainable environments (architecture/transport e.g.) in cities/regions

Committee President: Hanna Ojanen

Delegates:

Shweta Pokkunuru IN

Stefan Jević RS

Charlotte Dupon BE

Arnór Sindri Sölvason IS

Lasse Maarup Thomsen DK

Sigrid Valbjørn Stavnsbjerg DK

Karl-Andreas Sprenk EE

Nike Müller-Brunotte SE

Rose-MarieKaggiri SE

TeoKamstra DE

Dorota Chruscinska PL

Tatu Strengell FI

Maria Rossinskaya FI

Renee Zajic AU

The Committee on Education and Culture

The question of educating young people to become global citizens

Committee President:Lawand Namo

Delegates:

Radhika Sharma IN

NatalijaKatić RS

Magdalena Margrét Jóhannsdóttir IS

Claudia Pérez Tidmand DK

Rasmus Reeh DK

Louise Wibom SE

Fredrik Dahlborn SE

Franziska BöttcherDE

Leu Huang DE

Zuzanna Kwiatkowska PL

Ewa Szołkiewicz PL

Pilvi Villa FI

Cecilia Alameri FI

Ronja Reinhardt AU

Committee on Poverty and Exclusion

The question of development policies and humanitarian aid

Committee President: Konrad Książek

Delegates:

Devika Jain IN

NemanjaČigoja RS

Guðni Friðrik Oddsson IS

Amalie Tom-Petersen DK

Malene Jespersen DK

Maria Prass EE

Max Richnau SE

Elsa Fröslin SE

Sophia Mlejnek DE

Dominik Caspar DE

Jakub Czapiewski PL

Joel Oranen FI

Ina Kråkström FI

Christina Ortmair AU

The Model European Parliament (MEP) concept and methodology

The Model European Parliament program is a leadership program for youth in the 27 EU countries, set up in 1994 with a secretariat in The Hague, NL. The aim of the program is to educate young people at high school level about European integration and cooperation, and to develop their understanding of common issues as well as provide them with knowledge about EU’s institutions. The program develops political awareness and an understanding for Europe’s cultural diversity.

The MEP program has successfully expanded into regional organizations in several parts of Europe. In 2004 a regional organization was set up in the Baltic Sea Region by schools/institutions in Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and DK, and at present we have been joined by schools/institutions in Estonia, Latvia, St. Petersburg, Russia, Poland and Germany as well. From 2009 Iceland, Norway and Kaliningrad will be invited to join the organization too. The program is a training ground for future leaders and politicians as well as for talented students who share an interest in European issues.

The visionof the MEP Baltic Sea Organization is:

-Build relationships between youth in the Baltic Sea Region

-Penetrate common Baltic Sea and Nordic issues

-Give insight into each individual’s potential to affect society’s development

-Focus on trade, industry, politics and culture and social affairs

-Give insight into modern democracy and the parliamentary system, using the European Parliament as an example

-Develop debating skills in large international forums

The working language during the MEP is English. 10 students are chosen to represent each member country, and together they comprise a delegation. Each delegate represents his/her native country in a committee, which discusses international issues, and each committee has a specified subject to discuss. The common goal is to write a resolution that they can support and defend in the General Assembly (the youth parliament).

The MEP program is also a cultural and social event, which gives the participants the opportunity to experience the diversity of the countries around the Baltic Sea and be part of numerous social events, such as teambuilding, sightseeing along with living with a family in the host country.

The sessions take place twice a year in the Baltic Sea Region and since the start of the organization they have taken place in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bremen, Tallinn, Copenhagen/Malmoe, Helsinki, Riga, St. Petersburg, Ilawa/Torun, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Kaliningrad, Vilnius and Gdansk/Gdynia.

Pedagogically the MEP program focuses on:

a)Individual ICT introduction to EU institutions and to specific topics (links)

b)Study program before the sessions in class/groups

c)Workshops/committee work run by experienced students and delegates

d)Project work/written resolutions in English

e)Debating and rhetoric skills

f)Intercultural skills and competencies

g)The experience of an advanced and realistic role play (as a learning method)

The MEP BSR office is located in Copenhagen, DK, and run by an administrative coordinator. More information about MEP BSR and sessions at Enclosed here please find material and guidelines in preparation of MEP conferences at the national, regional and international levels.

For further information please contact Administrative Coordinator Nina Nørgaard

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank sponsors, supporters, hosting organisations and host families:

Nordic Council of Ministers

Europa Nævnet

Ministeriet for Børn og Undervisning

Ms Sofie Carsten Nielsen, Member of the Danish Parliament

Gefion Gymnasium

Rysensteen Gymnasium

Sankt Annæ Gymnasium

European Parliament Information Office in Denmark

Energistyrelsen

Lundbeck A/S

Patrons MEP BSR:

UffeEllemann-Jensen, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Anne Vang, Mayor of Children and Youth, Copenhagen Municipality.

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