Get to know each other

So many attacies from different countries are meeting at the ESU. And everybody is eager to get to know the others, to exchange ideas and to create starting points for future cooperation. To make this process easier and more fun, we created a new element in the program, the so called "Get to know each other", every morning for half an hour, at the beginning of the program.
For this, every day we will meet in new groups of 5 randomly selected attacies.
Here we get to know each other, have a meaningful discussion about a subject of common interest, formulate our common opinions and write them down for others to see and also to evaluate.

Random discussion groups:
To find the random group, everybody will draw a number at breakfast time and meet the others at 9:30 at the table with the respective numbers.
At the end of the discussion of the given subject , before 10:00, the group of 5 agrees on the 3 most important results and writes them in large letters onto prepared paper slips.
The paper slips are pinned to a large cardboard for everybody to see, clusters of five groups share one common cardboard.

Evaluation process:
The evaluation will take place at lunchtime.
At his own time, everybody will go back to her/his assigned cardboard and look at the 15 written statements of the five groups.
Everybody got 5 coloured points, which she/he can stick to the results she/he likes most ( more than one point can be put onto one statement ).
Later the statements on each cardboard will be arranged according to their number of points.
The statements/subjects with the higher number of points will form the input for the next mornings discussions.
Always a number of groups will discuss the same subject in parallel to get some statistical relevance, but not more than 200 people per subject are necessary.

Outlook:
And from all this, after the 4 days of the ESU, maybe a new picture will have emerged on how the Europe we wish for could look like and how we could create it.
In order to create the Europe we want we will have to find new ways to get to know each other, to exchange our views and to find solutions to our common needs all across Europe. The very method every participant will experience for himself during the "Get to know each other" could be one of the building blocks for a truly participatory democracy in Europe. We all look forward to it.