Eurozoersel 22 | with fresh eyes

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Eurozoersel 22 is the start of a new project, in which old town twinning friendships become the foundation of renewed European cooperation. In August 2022, Eurozoersel will bring together different nationalities and languages for the tenth time. In the spirit of fraternization and intercultural dialogue, residents from partner municipalities will travel to Zoersel (Belgium) for five days. We expect more than 150 guests from France, Germany, Spain and Romania. With respect for the twinning traditions, we approach Eurozoersel 22 with fresh eyes. We welcome old friends, but also new young participants. With these young people (aged 18 to 26 years) we start a first project in April-May 2022, a prequel for the town twinning event in August: we bring together a young delegation from our twinning towns, proportionate composed of boys and girls. We instruct this group of young people to visualize their towns: together they have to make a short film that introduces us to their world, through their young eyes. By working together on this project, European young people get the opportunity to understand each other's world. We give four themes that they should visualize in their film. These are important topics for all our European partners, and will also be the four themes of the event in August: 1: Europe, democracy and citizen participation 2: climate and local sustainable economy 3: (youth) culture and cultural heritage 4 : well-being and inclusion The youth film will be used as a common thread during the event in August. The four themes are also reflected in joint activities, visits, workshops and final debate during the Eurozoersel event. As the objective of Eurozoersel 22, we want to (1) have a rejuvenated and even stronger European partnership and (2) have established at least 4 (per theme at least 1) new concrete cooperation actions for the coming years with our European twinning towns.