YOUTHopia! volume 1 | Page 24

France, Bulgaria and Luxembourg. In the year 2003, in Wien, in the frame of Interreg IIIC program, the Executive President and the Program managers of the Foundation identified new European partners, NGOs from Germany, Italy, Austria and Ireland. Presently, the Foundation is enjoying a large number of transnational partnerships and the number is constantly increasing. Some of the most important are Techniki Ekpedeftiki, Kentro Epagelmatikis Katartisis SA, Greece, Association de Développement des Pyrenees par la Formation (ADEPFO France). Project: “European Parliament of the Youth” Start date: 01.04.2013 Completion date: 31.03.2014 Through the events envisaged in the project we aimed to educate and raise awareness about the importance of EU knowledge for the youngsters in order to increase their involvement in the community and to help them to become active citizens of the European Union. Decisions taken at European level directly affect the daily life of young people and other citizens and therefore it is very important that they are well informed in order to know their rights and responsibilities as European citizens. The future of Europe is represented in the young generation so the EU values should be well printed in their minds in order for them to realize that F