International Interns' Day 2015 (Brussels)

****STAND UP FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT & INTERNS' RIGHTS**** Part I: 12.00 - 2.30: Political Hackaton: - Political Hackathon: Develop best ideas for change and challenge directly decision-makers to answer them - Get together and lunch - Co-creation workshops to develop best ideas on: “How to make internships truly useful to get a job” - Design of demonstration signs 2.30 - 3.30: Demonstration and speeches in front of the European Parliament Part 2: 3.30 - 4.00: Registration at the European Economic & Social Committee 4.00 - 6.00: Political Hackaton Continued : Present young people’s best ideas & debate with Members of the European Parliament, private sectors, civil society and trade unions representatives Organisations: European Youth Forum, InternsGoPro, JCI, Bingo, Project 668 _____________________________________________ Interns Day 15 is happening all over the world: JOIN US in Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Sydney and Milan on Tuesday 10th of November! More info here: http://www.internsday.org/ Internships have become a prerequisite to getting a job. All over the world, millions of young people are doing internships with the hope of accessing full-time employment. This is essential as interns are the new generation of workers that will have to face the ever more complex political, social, economic and environmental challenges. Unfortunately, the majority of internships do not fulfil their role. They are, for the large part, unpaid and badly designed, with little learning content and supervision. This causes social inequality in accessing them and forces young people into a trap of never getting enough work experience to actually start working. We cannot accept a situation where young people, even after studies, have to work for free or are stuck for years in an uncertain transition to the labour market. This stops them from building their life and contributing to society. This is why we call on you to stand up for youth employment and interns rights on the first International Interns Day. The idea behind the day is to join forces internationally to act around two main objectives: 1) empowering the interns’ community and 2) achieving concrete political change. The programme is open source such that everyone can get ownership of it and bring their own actions to the day taking place simultaneously across the world both online & offline. You can find the programme per city below, on www.internsday.org and on twitter https://twitter.com/internsday