Garagerasmus activities

garagErasmus activities

An overview of recent activities Last update: March 2013

Activities: timeline May Book: Erasmus Generation October birth of the garagErasmus Foundation Florence: Workshop “new Digital Makers” November Pisa-Bruxelles: Kick off of the Reloading

Europe Tour December Florence: Check-in Europe, The Launch February #Erasmusvote initiative March Event “Reloading Europe in Pisa” April Event “Reloading Europe in Istanbul” Coming A Miracle at the Square of Miracles (Pisa) Coming Italian & European Parliament events

(Rome, Brussels) Coming Erasmus Person of Year Award – TBD Coming Stories: TV docu-reality about former

Erasmus success professional stories

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Reloading Europe Project: the Réunion of Erasmus Generation

•  Reloading Europe Project is an integrated and multiplatform communication platform with the purpose of reuniting the Erasmus Generation, to promote the Foundation and to create a database of 500k users

•  Budget: 1 million (70% sponsors)

Reloading*Europe*Project*

Digital*Check7in*Europe*

Tour*&*events*across*Europe*

Video*Youtube/Tv*Show*

Engaging&the&Erasmus&Genera/on&

Telling&stories&of&Erasmus&Genera/on&

Amplifing&project&values&and&awareness&

Fundraising*on*going*

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The book

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Published in Italy “Erasmus Generation: the Italy of New Ideas” May 2011 Edited by Francesco Cappè Introduction by H. Ceri Jones, founder of the Erasmus Program

Workshop on Digital handicrafts Florence, Agency for the Promotion of the Tuscany Region, 14 November 2012

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Reloading Europe Tour

A trip from garagErasmus Headquarters in Tuscany to Brussels

3-5 November 2012

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2 symbolic visits and then in the centre of Europe to read the Appeal to the Erasmus Generation!

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*Pisa*

Turin*Geneva*

Brussels*

Pisa - Departure from the Foundation HQ

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Pisa - Departure from our headquarters

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Pisa - Departure from our headquarters

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Turin - La Stampa newspaper Visiting La Stampa HQ

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Geneva - CERN Visiting the laboratories

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Geneva - CERN Interview with Joao Guimaraes da Costa, director of the ATLAS experiment

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Final destination: Brussels

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Final destination: European Parliament

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The Appeal to Erasmus Generation reading

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Appeal to Erasmus Generation We are the Erasmus Generation, and we speak for a new Europe. Our vision is of a growing and united Europe, forged by the fall of the Berlin wall, the end of the east-west divide, and the explosion of connections in every direction. We are the Internet generation. We are products and protagonists of the struggle for a European society, where values and policies unite while borders fade.

The Erasmus Generation has learned how to live in a land without borders. We have been educated to appreciate differences, we are thrilled by the speed of integration and the potential of a united and inclusive European society. We have no longer fear we may lose our identity or national traditions; we know that our polity is strengthened because we are different from one another. Our land stretches from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. It can become a golden bridge between west and east, north and south. Europe can be all this, and we know it. Erasmus has shaped our lives. Europe has given us a unique experience and forged our resolve. Now it is our turn to hold up our hands, recognise each other, and say Europe can, must, become the united inclusive society we envisage. We see that this will not happen by itself. We hear too much about finance and see too much bureaucracy. Where is solidarity, innovation, creativity and political courage?

If Europe is stagnating, its crisis is not so much economic as cultural. New technologies can now support us in moving faster towards a culture change. We have tools that our parents did not have, we have been moulded by their vision and we have learned to be European citizens. The Erasmus Generation puts its strength and will to the task of achieving an integrated society able to produce novel ideas and ensure sustainable development in a world that is getting closer every day. Today, from the European Parliament, we call on all those who have had an Erasmus or a similar experience to raise their hands, to declare their adhesion, and to work together with us toward this goal. We are a force for change and it is now our turn, our opportunity and our responsibility. For our parents, for ourselves, for our fellow citizens, for our children. We are the Other Side of Europe.

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Check-in Europe

The social platform to reunite the Erasmus Generation

December 2012

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Check-In Europe

•  Check-in Europe is the multiplatform application that will constitute the database of former Erasmus students (3 million people);

•  The database shall feature different clusters: all subscribers will be grouped by skills and business orientation;

•  After 1 month from the launch, Check-in Europe has almost 3.000 users (simply by word of mouth);

•  The app is still in beta version and will be strongly improved in the next months;

•  Goal: 500k check-in;

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Check-In Europe

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Check-in Europe Launch with the President of Tuscany Florence, Palace of the Tuscany Region, 4 December 2012

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#Erasmusvote

An initiative in Italy to support the voting rights of Italian Erasmus

Students 3-5 November 2012

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#Erasmusvote (initiative only for Italy)

We believe that European citizenship cannot be in conflict with or limited

by national citizenship. Our Foundation stands for a united and dynamic

Europe ready to raise its hand, to implement ideas and face the challenges

of development.

Italian law does not foresee the possibility for Erasmus students to vote abroad during their study experiences. Such legislative bottleneck became public on the verge of the last political elections, in February 2012, when a group of Italian students abroad came together to launch an online protest ( in one week the dedicated facebook page was joined by 5000 subscribers) and lobby for a swift modification of the law. The short time before the vote made it impossible for the government to adopt the necessary measures for modification. Therefore, gargErasmus decided to support the return of students to Italy by fund-raising order to allow Erasmus students to go to the polls. Two donors gave the symbolic financial aid of €100 for each of 50 students. We received more than 600 requests, which shows the maturity of Erasmus students and their desire to be active European citizens, without giving up their national rights and duties. 29

Sponsors & partners

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Sponsors

Partners

Press review

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Check-in Europe in Pisa Airport

- Key places for the Erasmus Generation - Workshops and communication

format in the Airport. March 2013

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Check-in Europe in Pisa Airport

•  A full day dedicated to Erasmus, organized in Pisa with the local Authorities and University;

•  garagerErasmus, in the evocative location of the Galileo Galilei Airport in Pisa, organized a Workshop entitled Ex Erasmus and Sustainable Growth: a New Europe of Ideas, work and innovation;

•  On that occasion, the Foundation inaugurated an advertising format in the Airport to promote the Check-in Europe website.

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Check-in Europe at the Pisa Airport Workshop

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Advertisting on the Video Monitors

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garagErasmus in Istanbul

Erasmus Generation meets up in front of Bosporus and Asia.

20 April 2013

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Check-in Europe in Istanbul 20 April 2013, Esma Sultan Yalisi, Istanbul

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•  Launching Check-in Europe in a full day event promoted by the Turkish Minister of EU Affairs,

•  Debating and engaging with local entreprenurs and start up

•  Success stories of ex-Erasmus •  Networking

A charming location

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A charming location

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A charming location

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Media involvement and visibility

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Media involvement and visibility

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Authorities, universities, business people

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Workshops and netwoking

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Coming soon: Interactive totems

•  Disembarking from the plane direct subscription into virtual Check-in Europe –  We are implementing totems in the check-

in and gates areas of Pisa Airport to engage people in check-in Europe App;

–  We are partnering with other European airports in order to extend this communication format and to reach a larger audience of Erasmus Generation people

Fundraising**on*going*

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Coming - Reloading Europe Project

•  Reloading Europe Project is an integrated and multiplatform communication project with the purpose of reuniting the Erasmus Generation, to promote the Foundation and to create a database of 500k users

•  Budget: 1 million (70% sponsors)

Reloading*Europe*Project*

Digital*Check7in*Europe*

Tour*&*events*across*Europe*

Video*Youtube/Tv*Show*

Engaging&the&Erasmus&Genera/on&

Telling&stories&of&Erasmus&Genera/on&

Amplifing&project&values&and&awareness&

Fundraising*on*going*

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The Erasmus Generation professional network

Foundation

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Garagerasmus activities

Education

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