Model European Parliament Italia

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Orazio Vecchi 26
41012 Carpi (Modena)
Italy

Telephone
0039 059 69 45 90
Telephone (other)
0039 081 57 99 306 (Cirillo)
Fax
0039 059 69 45 90
E-Mail
cristiana.casarini@tiscalinet.it
E-Mail (2)
giulio.guaitoli@gambro.com
Mobile Phone
349 58 90 596 (Casarini)
Mobile Phone (other)
333 73 36 397 (Cirillo)
Website
http://www.mepitalia.com
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1996
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Youth and education
General Information
MEP ITALIA is an non profit apolitical cultural association which has been composed by young high schoolers/students and High school professors in 1996. The association is recognized on a statutory basis by Italian institutions in the legislative framework. The aim of this association is to promote a citizenship's education in an European dimension, to give value to cultural pluralism and diversity which is seen as factors of a mere human development. The association has an Administration Council of 15 members, works in partnership with academic high school establishments which have formed a " network of MEP Schools". Annual ressources are merest and come from the academic establishments' inscriptions to the association and to youth who participate to the projects. The financing's origins of the projects are basically institutionals - local and regional administrations, office of the European Parliament in Italia
Mission and Objectives

The association's aim is to promote a citizenship's education in an European dimension, to give value to cultural pluralism and diversity which is seen as factors of a mere human development.

Main Projects / Activities

The association organises at regional level or domestically and sometimes at international level, sessions of parliamentary activies' simulations, basically simulations of the European Parliament (4 or 5 annual sessions).
Moreover, the association organised training's seminar for youth who will become successively overseers of project's activities : work of the Parliamentary commission and of the General Assembly in the heart of simulation's sessions.
Consequently, during these ten years of activity, hundreds of youth matured a large awarness of their citizen responsability.

Contact (1) Full Name
Cristiana Casarini
Head of the organisation
Giulio Guaitoli
Contact (2) Full Name
Anna Maria Cirillo