Activites & Projects
yes is active on local, national and european level and demonstrates thereby its federalist convictions!
yes locally
| yesTrunk Every forthnight, yes organises social events for pro-Europeans in various Swiss university towns with the aim of offering like-minded people a forum to exchange views on current European affairs and to promote Europeanness in Switzerland. | |
| Panel debates, Cafés d'Europe and Speeches yes organises periodically panel debates and speeches on current topics at Swiss universities in cooperation with partner organisations. Furthermore, yes offers students the opportunity to meet experts on Swiss European policy in the Café d'Europe projects when they get the chance for a chat with the invitees in a relaxed, coffee house atmosphere off campus as for example with the late Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey in Geneva in 2009. | |
| Days of Europe Every year, yes celebrates the "Days of Europe" (May 5 - 9) in the regions. By organising information stands, quizzes and expert talks we commemorate the accomplishments of the European integration project and the latter's significance for Switzerland - over 60 years of peace and prosperity in Europe is definitely worth a celebration! |
yes nationally
| yes organises yearly a five-days study trip for thirty Swiss students to Europe. Following four introductury seminars in Switzerland, Brussels is challenged. There, we are visiting the Swiss Mission to the EU and the European Parliament, meet Swiss diplomats, MEPs, Commission represenatives, journalists, NGO-representatives and the Young European Federalists (JEF). Moreover, participants draft a motion on Swiss-EU relations during their stay in Brussels, which are then introduced to the Swiss parliament by well-disposed Swiss MPs. | |
| yes organises one-day information projects on Europe at Swiss grammar schools every year. Students get the opportunity to learn more about Swiss-EU relations as well as to gather political experience by actively participating in workshops and simulations. Furthermore, students may apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills in a panel debatewith "real" MPs at the end of the project. | |
| Referendum and Initiative Campaigns Being unaffiliated to any political party, yes still takes sides - obviously! Therefore, we engage ourselves in campaigns for Swiss votations with a European dimension and thus build issue-dependent alliances with other organisations aiming for an open and prosperous Switzerland. |
yes European
| pan-european actions with JEF yes, as the Swiss section of JEF, participates regularily in pan-european actions. The aim of such actions is to promote the federalist principles of JEF in Europe and to protest against deficits in the European Union. Among the latest actions is the Free Belarus Action, through which JEF activists protest against the last dictatorship in Europe since 2006, or the Wake Up Europe campaign on the eve of the European elections in 2009. | |
| JEF Seminars and Training Days yes also organises events that are open to interested youngsters from other JEF sections, such as the "Majorities for Minorities" seminar in Biel in 2008. In return, members of yes have the opportunity to participate in youth projects from Norway to Italy and to experience what intercultural learning means practically and to discover what young Europeans from across the continent share in common. | |
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| JEF Federal Committee (FC) and JEF European Congress The European Umbrella organisation JEF Europe holds a European Congress every two years, in which a European board (Executive Board) and a European legislative council, the Federal Committee (FC), are elected. In between, the FC meets every six months on invitation of a national section for a week-end long strategic and policy-shaping meeting. yes participates as a full member in all meetings and regularly dispatches its members into European JEF bodies. yes members Sven Bisang and Marcel Bürkler currently serve as FC members. Further information on www.jef.eu! |
