Activities in Austria

JEF activities in Austria are part of the campaign for the European Parliament elections of the Austrian Youth Council Vote 4 Future

Check out for activities in your region:

www.vote4future.at

On monday the 17th May 2004 10.00am was the official start of vote4future - the “firsttime and young voter” election campaign in Austria! This campaign is carried out by the “Bundesjugendvertretung (BJV)“ (– the national youth council of Austria) in cooperation with the European Parliament. The “Bundesjugendvertretung”is the umbrella organisation of all democratic children and youth organisations in Austria. JEF Austria as one of its members is strongly involved and supporting this campaign.

The front-runners of all parties supported the street and media action of

the vote4future kick of event.

The whole campaign has a central web platform with a lot of information

around the upcoming elections and all candidates.

The national TV and dozens of journalists jointed the campaign start of

vote4future. Austrian Members of the European Parliament like Hannes

Swoboda, Johannes Voggenhuber, Ursula Stenzl and Johannes Kronberger

informed about the importance of these elections.

Jan Sisko (chairman of JEF-Styria) Daniel Gerer (President of JEF-Austria, JEF-Europe FC member) and Julia Starnbacher (Vice-President of JEF-Austria) are just a few of the JEF supporters of the campaign.

Info-Teams are driving through the country with tour busses to reach as many young people as possible.

Some of the campaign team members together with the front-runners for the elections of the European Parliament.

Info stalls are built up all over the country – to get in touch with young people!

Jan Sisko, from Gleisdorf, Styria, Austria: It is important to move as many young people as possible to these elections – it our future and it is our Europe!