Views of the European Youth on Health Problems of the 21st Century and search for solutions
30 August – 6 September, Ankara, Turkey
Aims and targets of the project:
Youth meeting: To create a platform of meeting, discussion and cooperation by gathering the European Youth who are interested in and sensitive to health problems and willing to create solutions.
Inquiry / Opinion poll: To find out the European youth generation’s outlooks, concerns, knowledge and interest level to upcoming health issues in the 21st century.
Sharing information and ideas: To maintain the youth to get more information about this subject and to discuss problems and present solutions during the seminar.
Increasing sensitivity: During the seminar, as European youth, to increase our sensitivity and to raise awareness on upcoming health issues.
Finding and presenting solutions: To develop solutions, to determinate targets for local/regional solutions, to declare these suggestions to authorities by using various methods.
Promoting cooperation: To promote the cooperation among partners and keep on it for new actions related to common objectives at the end of the seminar.
Local / Regional works: To raise awareness among young people and society at the local level, and to realize common works with various organizations for implementing these objectives.
Seminar program:
First questionnaire: General opinion of the participants on health problems.
Presentation / Discussion: Health problems: Past, Present and Future.
Workshops:
- Research – presentation: Giving a disease / problem to each group, research, discussion, presentation.
- Brainstorming: What will be major global health problems in near future?
- Discussion: What can we do to solve these problems from now on?
- Village visit: Medical screening, awareness raising activities.
Hospital visit:
- Watching an operation – observation.
- Observing clinics about specified issues.
- Interview with patients and physicians.
Last questionaire and outcome report: Discussing what has been learned and achieved through the project preparing an outcome report including solutions to problems according to the information and ideas that have been developed.
Final panel: Presentation and discussion of the results.
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