INEPS - Youth Congresses

Part of the activities of the International Network of Productive Schools (INEPS) is also the running of international youth congresses. Since 1995 youth congresses took place in different countries. The organisation and preparation of these events were organized to a substantial degree the responsibility of the young people themselves.

The youth congresses are set up as an open forum for representatives of INEPS projects from as many as possible different nations. The independent preparation by young people requires a free, democratic choice of topic and the planning by working groups.

The youth congresses have one distinctive feature in common, i.e., a concern with social and political questions. The young people chose topics such as "Water", "The Future", "Xenophobia", "Prejudices", "Alcoholism", or "Drug Abuse" as either congress topics or as topics for workshops. In doing so, they combined social experiences with international learning. Simultaneously, the youth congresses promoted an independent and less formal creation of a network among the young people.

INEPS youth congresses that took place up until now: