EU Awarenes

EU-Awareness project

The EU Awareness project seeks to identify the more common euro myths or of each region involved, debunk them, open up debate for all those ideas without any prejudice and finally show the EU mechanism available to get involved in Europe’s policymaking.

Through an online survey and local debates, the project will identify what we like and what we don’t like, what we know and perhaps what we don’t know about the EU. Euroscepticism is on the rise, why is it so? Are Euromyths to blame? Or how could the EU be improved? The project will debunk some of the more common Euro-myths and present some simple facts about what the EU does and how it works. Euroscepticism is a complex reality, ranging from economic to cultural issues, characterised by various levels of intensity. The phenomenon is fueled by entities and media across Europe that contribute to creating misinformation; typical examples are “that the EU consist only of unelected bureaucrats”. The problem is apparently a lack of understanding of how the EU works and a need of critical thinking.

Objectives

The project pursues four objectives:

To understand from its target group the most common misconceptions that are currently underlying Euroscepticism;
To develop innovative activities that provide factual information regarding the identified misconceptions,
To create and activate local debates around these issues and the future of Europe, which will assure long-term viability to this initiative;
Show to EU citizens the tools available to shape the future of the EU they want.

Summary of Activities

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Activities

As to comply with these objectives, the partnership has carried out a transnational survey to identify and compare misconceptions, a tailor-made international communication campaign, debates and webinars.

1. Webinars

2. Communication campaigns

3. Survey results and Conclusions

Here you can find the results of questionnaire survey from all participating countries and Spain. To read the other national reports please visit: https://eu-awareness.eu/survey-results-and-conclusions/