Next Gen EU: The Role Of Today‘s Young Changemakers For Tomorrow‘s Europe
Speakers
Marie Chureau is a climate and social activist, member of Youth for Climate France and Fridays For Future Europe’.
Terry Reintke is a Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chair of the Green/EFA group. In 2014 she won her first term at the age of 27 which made her the youngest MEP of the House. Terry, whose constituency is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, advocates for the rule of law, being a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is substitute in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. As a member of the FEMM-Committee she fights for women’s rights and gender equality, supported by her work as Co-President of the LGBTI Intergroup in the EP. Terry Reintke graduated in political science in Berlin and Edinburgh, while being politically active as party speaker of the Federation of Young European Greens.
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In 2020 Susanne Zels founded the initiative Values Unite initiative advocating for the establishment of a European Agency for Citizenship Education. She has been working on European values and participatory democracy in Europe for many years, including as president of the grassroots think tank Polis180. She studied history and political science and works as a policy analyst and strategy consultant in Berlin. In 2019, she ran for the European Parliament and was recently election district councillor for the CDU Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in her home district.