European umbrella
The Europaschirm is a joint initiative of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce , the Federal Chancellery , the Austrian Association of Municipalities and the Austrian Society for European Politics (ÖGfE) to disseminate reliable information about Europe in European municipalities.
history
Based on the “EU Roadshow” information campaigns in autumn 2005 and spring 2006, the Europaschirm initiative was founded in 2008 and carried out for the first time in Raabs an der Thaya ( Lower Austria ). The initiative was originally planned for two years. Due to its great success, it has been extended again and again to this day.
In 2017, the initiative of EU Parliament President Antonio Tajani received thanks to the “Europaschirm” team by means of a video message and in the same year a letter of thanks from Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker . Up to 2017, around 700,000 advisory and information meetings were held in Belgium , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Germany , Croatia , Austria , Poland , Slovenia and Hungary . The European umbrella was used for the thousandth time as part of the Europa Forum Neumarkt of the Federation of European Federalists Styria (BEF) from July 15 to 17, 2017 at Forchtenstein Castle .
Motto and umbrella
The motto of the Europaschirm initiative is “We bring Europe into the communities!” The trademark is a blue umbrella with two or four closed circles made up of twelve yellow stars in the shape and size of the European flag . Alternatively, there are also versions of the Europaschirma with open circles and twelve yellow stars, which gradually become larger.
Goal and project partner
The aim of the events “under the European umbrella” is to inform interested citizens about the united Europe, to establish direct contact with the citizens, to answer open questions, to discuss the EU and to reduce the citizens' skepticism towards the EU and build trust.
The project partners and organizers are public, semi-public and private persons, associations and initiatives that have made it their task to bring the common Europe closer to the citizens. So organized z. B. the European federalist movement in Austria often joint events under the trademark “Europaschirm”.
organization
The overall coordination lies with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce under the direction of Karl-Heinz Wanker, who had the idea of the European umbrella as a "face to face" communication tool, for which he was honored in 2013 with the Mérite Européen in bronze. In addition to the Chamber of Commerce's own events, the implementation of the individual events is the responsibility of project partners such as E.g. the representation of the EU Commission in Austria , the information office of the European Parliament in Austria , the Federal Chancellery , the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs , the Austrian Society for European Politics , the European Federalist Movement , the Young European Federalists , the EuropaUnion Vorarlberg and we are Europe .
Awards
- 2009: Award (3rd place for outstanding civil society projects) from the European Economic and Social Committee (ESC)
- 2009: National winner EurActiv .
- 2016: European State Prize from the Austrian Foreign Ministry in the civil society category
Web links
- Future Europe , website of the Federal Chancellery.
- Europaschirm balance 2015 , WKÖ.
- Europaschirm balance sheet 2016 , WKÖ.
- Letter from Jean-Claude Juncker to WKÖ regarding Europaschirm , European Commission, 10 July 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Europaschirm" campaign was a huge success , Austrian Association of Municipalities , October 22, 2008.
- ^ Aktion Europaschirm , Austrian Chamber of Commerce, April 28, 2017.
- ↑ Europaschirm - brings Europe into the communities ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EU information center, April 13, 2011.
- ↑ 1000 times Europaschirm: a successful information initiative of the WKÖ , press release Austrian Chamber of Commerce , July 18, 2017.
- ↑ 1000 times Europaschirm , WKÖ.
- ↑ 1000 times Europaschirm: a successful information initiative of the WKÖ , press release Austrian Chamber of Commerce , July 18, 2017.
- ^ Action Europaschirm , Austrian Chamber of Commerce, April 28, 2017 and 1000 times Europaschirm: a successful information initiative of the Austrian Economic Chamber , press release Austrian Chamber of Commerce , July 18, 2017.
- ↑ 1000 times Europaschirm , WKÖ, p. 19.
- ↑ Mag. Karl-Heinz Wanker, MBA MSc. In: Europe Direct. January 31, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 (German).
- ↑ List of honors. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ 1000 times Europaschirm: a successful information initiative of the WKÖ , press release Austrian Chamber of Commerce , July 18, 2017.
- ↑ Spindelegger: "European umbrella as an example for a successful European dialogue with the citizens" , website of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, November 5, 2009; "Europaschirm" campaign receives EU award , Association of Lower Austrian Municipalities, November 5, 2009; Europaschirm - brings Europe into the communities ( memento of the original from August 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EU-Infothek, April 13, 2011. See also letter from Margot Wallström to the WKÖ of November 5, 2009.
- ↑ Europa umbrella as a successful example of active EU information policy ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , European Committee of the Regions, 12 September 2016; facebook , August 29, 2016.
