Ideas Club is back for its second edition in Venice

After a first edition edition in October 2023, EUTOPIA launches the second edition of the “Ideas Club”, a student-led debate program to raise awareness of European values through knowledge and awareness about intercultural differences, transcending local and regional and national identity-pegs, with the objective of developing and training European identity and inclusive citizenship competence and skills through knowledge about values, human rights, models of representation and participation. 

The Ideas Club meets twice a year, and each session will produce results in the form of reports, manifestos, or audiovisual material with the conclusions of the debates. The upcoming meeting will take place on April 23 and 24, 2024 at Ca’Foscari University in Venice. The tangible proposals will be made public during the upcoming EUTOPIA Day on May 13th, 2024. 

The second edition of the Ideas Club, organised in cooperation with the EUSTT (Eutopia Students Think Tank), will delve around a core concern of our Century: “Climate Change Challenges”. The Ideas Club project will culminate in the summer of 2026 with the celebration of a EUTOPIA Summer School where the outcomes of the different meetings held over these years will be collected.
 

• Programme

 

April 23rd	9 am	Registration	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “Marino Berengo” Room
	9.30 am – 12.30 pm	Ideas Club Debate Session	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, "Marino Berengo” Room
	12.30 pm – 1.30 pm	Light lunch	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Cortile Squellini
	2 pm – 3 pm	Climate Change challenges in Venice: meeting with 2 Venetian associations (“Associazione VERAS” and “Venice Calls”)	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “Marino Berengo” Room
	4 pm – 5 pm	Visit to the Biennale’s Library and Historical archives + meeting with Biennale students	Biennale's Library, Calle Paludo Sant’Antonio, Venice
	8 pm	Social Event	Restaurant “Orient Experience 2”, Venice (TBC)
April 24th	9 am – 1 pm	Climate Change challenges: Output session	Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “Marino Berengo” Room