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Young Europe speaks up

August 20, 2026

Over 30 young participants from 6 European countries share personal digital stories, sending a strong message of empowerment, solidarity, and active civic participation.

As part of the European Erasmus+ program “Choose-Life”, the official release of the Youth Vlogs series has been announced. This digital storytelling initiative gives Youth-Choose Council (YCC) members and young participants across Europe a platform to speak openly about mental health, addiction prevention, and the power of youth action.

Replacing traditional top-down communication, Choose-life positions young people as peer mentors and communicators. Through short, authentic videos, participants address four key themes:

  1. Personal growth & lessons learned: Key moments, self-perception changes, and valuable takeaways from the project’s activities.
  2. Core awareness messages: Direct peer-to-peer advice on navigating pressure, mental health challenges, and avoiding addictions.
  3. Youth-Choose Council (YCC) experience: The experience of collaborating with peers and advocating for youth policy reforms.
  4. Taking action: Plans for applying project insights in daily life, schools, and local neighbourhoods.

Key results & features:

  • 24 youth vlogs: Produced across 6 implementation countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Italy, and Cyprus).
  • Active youth engagement: Over 30 young people directly involved in creating and recording the content.
  • Multilingual accessibility: Videos feature subtitles in both English and local languages to ensure cross-border impact.
  • Public screenings: In addition to online hosting, the vlogs will be publicly screened during the Final National Showcase events in each country.

The video collection is available on the official project platform: https://www.chooselife-project.eu/resources/

 About the Choose-life project:

The Choose-Life project aims to prevent drug abuse and promote psychosocial well-being among vulnerable youth. It is coordinated by CESIE ETS (Italy) in partnership with KMOP (Greece), LIBERA (Italy), RIGHTCHALLENGE (Portugal), ZHP (Poland), CARDET (Cyprus), WEBIN (Serbia), and OTB (Belgium).

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Why Out of the Box International

The seemingly ever-lasting depression of European economies has shaken the very foundations of many European societies. The shear rate of unemployment in Europe and the omnipresent environmental crisis coupled with the often frustratingly slow process of decision making in the EU, are calling for civil society actors to step in and fill the void.

In the aftermath of the 2008. economic crisis, the apprehension of falling under the spell of apathy of economic depression across the continent has not been easy to shake off. However, pinpointing the culprits for the current state of affairs on any particular EU decision maker is not the answer. Nonetheless, the fact remains that the current approach to the economic and environmental crisis hasn’t yet shown the affected citizens the light at the end of the tunnel.

As representatives of the civil society we feel the need to make our voice heard in the midst of the current debate on economic crisis. Being a social enterprise we offer new and feasible ideas in education and community work, creative cross-sectorial cooperation among different actors and strong networking coalitions to turn these dire economic challenges into possibilities through social entrepreneurship initiatives which aim at benefiting wide range of citizens, particularly vulnerable groups and those affected by the economic crisis.

Social entrepreneurship is a simple concept that has been put into practice by civil society actors for the benefit of a specific social group or people, and this is precisely what we want: to create projects and initiatives with fresh ideas in different policies, educational programs or tools, support businesses, empower cultural initiatives and offer different solutions to individuals, corporate bodies, everybody who believe that we can have more Creative, Innovative and Cohesive Europe.

 

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