“Our Maghreb, a common future”.

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation is organising a writing contest for youth from the Maghreb countries dealing with regional issues. The contest aims at inciting young people from the Maghreb region to enrich their reflection on the future of the region and also on the issues related to the political participation of youth and the problems they face in political, socio-economic and cultural fields.

Youngsters from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are invited to submit their contribution under the theme “Our Maghreb, a common future”.The contest will allow students from the concerned countries, aged from 15 to 18, to express their views and expectations on the future Maghreb.

The participants should submit their articles to the organising committee before the deadline of May. 15. The selection of the best articles will take place in June.“The selected articles will be published in the supplements of the papers which are partners of the foundation. They will be in booklet form, which will be distributed in schools to stimulate debates on the issues,” underline the committee.

To carry out this project, the three offices of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria created partnerships with public institutions, local associations, syndicates and newspapers from the three countries.

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation is a non-profit German political foundation committed to the advancement of public policy issues in the spirit of the basic values of social democracy through education, research, and international cooperation. The foundation, headquartered in Bonn and Berlin, was founded in 1925 and is named after Friedrich Ebert, a founding father of the Weimar Republic, Germany’s first democracy after World War I. Today, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has six adult education centers and 12 regional offices throughout Germany, maintains branch offices in over 90 countries and carries out activities in more than 100 countries.

Die internationale Arbeit verbindet die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung mit Partnern in über hundert Ländern der Welt. In den meisten dieser Länder arbeiten Vertreter der Stiftung mit eigenen Büros für Demokratie, Entwicklung und Frieden in ihren Gastländern. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, zu mehr Partizipation, Pluralismus, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und gewaltfreier Konfliktregelung in Staat und Gesellschaft beizutragen. Zu den Partnern der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung zählen Parteien, Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Bürgerbewegungen, Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft, aber auch Parlamente, Regierungsinstitutionen und internationale Organisationen.

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