Yes-event (Young European School conference) is an annual international conference for young European students. Started in 2005, Yes-event takes place during the third week of November. In the course of this week, students make presentations, participate in international group work activities, discuss topical issues, solve creative tasks, and become familiar with the local sights and ways of life. The participants get a chance to use their English actively, meet and socialise with their peers from other European schools, and express their opinion on issues relevant to young Europeans.

December 16, 2014

Harry Mulder on the background of the event

The YES-event or Young European School conference was held for the first time from 21st to 25th November 2005 in Northgo College, Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Its basic idea was to get students from several schools from different European countries together to discuss and debate about a relevant theme in the past, the present, and the future.
We wanted to get youngsters from different European countries together and make them get to know each other and thereby, learn to appreciate different cultures.
Another aspect, which was inseparably linked to this, was that it would be the most efficient way to fight certain prejudices and to broaden the horizon of not only those students who participated, but also those students that surrounded the participants in their home-country by trying to involve them in the conference by as many means as possible.


                                                    
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