The Council of Europe is looking for citizen experts to contribute to a conference about the transition of youth to an independent active life. That’s you: this is our life, and we all are experts in it. We need session leaders, presenters, discussants, visualizers, bloggers, social media ninjas, journalists, interviewers; everything that makes a great conference.

During the conference the Edgeryders community and European policy-makers altogether will meet to share and discuss results of the augmented ethnographic study of European Edgeryders carried out from November 2011 to June 2012. The main result of this conference will be a structure of a shared document, the final output of our study and concentrates all the expertise from the Edgeryders communit.  Also, it will be consistent with a shared, negotiated vision of transition to a rewarding, active adult life toda, as it is depicted by our citizen experts. More about the Council of Europe hosting this conference and details about the unconference setup in this post!

There’s two ways you can come. The first is simple: book a ticket to Strasbourg and a hotel, and we’ll badge you in to participate in the conference. It’s that simple. First come, first served. We also offer a limited number of funded travel-tickets to eligible participants.

DATE: June 14th – 15th, 2012, followed by an unconference on 16th-17th

VENUE: Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France

ABOUT THE EVENT: All sessions are free and open to everyone wishing to attend. There will also be a two day, peer-to-peer open format unconference immediately following the event. The Council of Europe welcomes participation from local governments and other public institutions, third sector and business organisations, citizen groups and individuals. For details please contact Alberto Cottica at alberto.cottica@coe.int
HIGHLIGHTS: Below is a provisional programme, note that it may change!
REGISTRATION: Participation is free of charge, but we do ask that participants sign up in the community and set up a profile.

MORE INFO ABOUT PROJECT: see executive summary or better yet, join Edgeryders!