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.
Competitions
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) win a subsidised trip to take part in Euroscola in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
You will find more information about our Euroscola competitions for EPAS schools here.
We also run competitions in conjunction with the following organisations:
- Model Council of the EU
- Graduate.ie 2nd Level Student Competition
- Rotary Youth Leadership Development Programme
More information
For more details about Euroscola check out the website here.
You can follow Euroscola sessions LIVE on Parliament's multimedia centre.
If you would like to take part in a Euroscola session online, please email youth-epdublin@europarl.europa.eu.