Youth

Euroscola

Euroscola offers an immersive experience in the Chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, allowing secondary school students to experience European parliamentary democracy. Students debate, negotiate, amend, vote and adopt resolutions on current European issues, just like the MEPs.

Euroscola combines both in-person attendance, directly in the European Parliament’s hemicycle in Strasbourg and online, via live-stream and interactive online platforms.

The programme in the morning is a hybrid event and lasts two hours.  Students learn about the European Parliament, its members,and policies. They actively participate by proposing their innovative ideas on the topic under discussion.  This is done via live video on Interactio for online students, directly in the hemycycle for students present in the European Parliament in Starsbourg or in written form via Slido for all types of attendees.

The afternoon part of the programme is reserved for in-house participants.  In order to take an active part students prepare in advance and come to Strasbourg already acquainted with the issues up for discussion.   Students take the floor in plenary and committee sessions to debate and vote on resolutions on current affairs, all the while practising their language skills and making friends with fellow students from across Europe. Teachers also have the opportunity to meet their colleagues and exchange feedback about their own classroom practices & experiences.

The selection procedure is organised by the European Parliament Liaison Offices. Both applicant and former Member States of the EU are eligible to take part.

Our Liaison Office runs a video competition for secondary school students taking part in the European Parliament Ambassador School (EPAS) programme in Ireland. Competition winners (maximum 24 students and two teachers/minimum 10 students and one teacher) receive a subsidy towards the cost of travelling to Strasbourg.

We also run competitions in conjunction with the following organisations:

More information

For more details about Euroscola check out the website here.  For information about group composition and the financial subsidy, please refer to the FAQ.

You can follow Euroscola sessions LIVE on Parliament's multimedia centre.

If you would like to take part in a Euroscola session online, please contact Margaret at youth-epdublin@europarl.europa.eu

A look back at our 2025 Euroscola Competition: Safeguarding European Democracy

Democracy in Europe faces many challenges today:

•    foreign interference in our way of life,
•    disinformation and information manipulation preventing citizens from making informed decisions or discouraging them from voting,
•    cyber threats,
•    AI-facilitated information manipulation,

to name just a few. 

To combat this, the European Union has proposed to set up a European Democracy Shield.  

With this in mind, we asked students to create a 1-minute YouTube video, in English or Irish, showing how they could play a part in safeguarding European democracy in the EU.

We received a diverse range of entries - including rap songs, role play sketches, news reports - that explored fact-checking, the role of AI in disinformation, the importance of voting, and key threats to democracy along with practical ways to address them.

You can check out the winning videos below:

Dublin Constituency:

    John Scottus Secondary, Rathmichael, Co. Dublin (winners)
    St Mary's Holy Faith Secondary School, Glasnevin, Dublin (runners-up)

Midlands-North-West Constituency:

    Coláiste Chiarain, Leixlip, Kildare (winners)
    St. Oliver’s Community College, Drogheda (runners-up)

South Constituency:

    St Colman's Community College, Cork (winners)
    Loreto Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (runners-up)

Honorable mentions were given to:

    Coláiste Chiaráin Croom, Co. Limerick
    Coláiste Nano Nagle, Limerick
    Collinstown Park Community College, Clondalkin, Dublin
    Kinsale Community School, Co. Cork
    St Brendan’s College, Killarney, Co. Kerry
    St Kilian‘s Deutsche Schule/Lycée Français International, Clonskeagh, Dublin

A look back at our 2024 competition:  Digital Addiction

Our 2024 competition focussed on the topic of digital addiction. The impact of social media platforms on the health of users, especially young people, is of great concern and the European Parliament has urged the European Commission to propose new EU rules to tackle digital addiction.   We asked students to create a one-minute video clip explaining their ideas on what the EU can do to tackle digital addiction. 

Check out the winning entries below!

Dublin constituency:

Midlands-North-West constituency:

South constituency:

Honorable mentions were given to:

A look back at our 2023 competition: 'European Elections: Democracy in Action'

We asked students to create a one-minute video clip explaining what they would do to increase voter turnout and how they would encourage more young people to vote in the European elections in June 2024.

Check out the winning videos below!

Winners:

Highly commended:

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