European Parliament Ambassador School programme

EPAS was launched in the Netherlands in 2010 as the Een 10 voor Europa programme, which aimed to educate Dutch secondary school students about Europe and European cooperation, as well as how the EU influences their everyday lives.

From 2015, the programme was expanded to other member states of the EU and given its current name and aims, before also being opened up the UK after Brexit in 2021.

[4] These ambassadors would then deliver and organise projects and events at their schools which promoted the programme and its aims.

[9][6][10] In the 2015–2016 academic year, the programme was piloted in six other EU member states, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland[11] and Poland.

[12][15] In 2021, the European Parliament opened the programme to schools in the United Kingdom after it left the EU a year earlier, as part of its campaign to maintain ties with pro-EU youth in the country and tackle disinformation in the UK about the EU following the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.