European Youth Parliament Ireland (Gaeilge: Parlaimint na hEorpa Óige na hÉireann) is a politically unaffiliated, nonprofit organization that encourages Irish youth to be actively engaged in political discourse.
The European Youth Parliament was founded by Bettina Carr-Allinson as a school project at the Lycée François-Ier in Fontainebleau.
The politically impartial Heinz-Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe was founded in 1971 in Hamburg.
Since then the EYP has been overseen and supported by the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa and is hosted in Berlin, Germany.
[2] The Munster Session takes place with participants from the province of Munster; the Leinster Session takes place with participants from the province of Leinster (excluding County Dublin); the Dublin Session takes place with participants from the counties of Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, and the city of Dublin; and the Connacht-Ulster Session takes place with participants from the province of Connacht and the three counties of Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan.
The six counties in Northern Ireland have their own regional session under the auspices of EYP United Kingdom.
During the third day, the General Assembly takes place, where different committees debate and vote upon their resolutions.
Students are then selected from the National Selection Conference to take part in an international session, which take place three times a year at varying locations throughout Europe and are organised by the EYP International Office.
When creating solutions, committees are not allowed to violate the powers of the European Union.
For instance, a topic for the Committee on Foreign Affairs may be ”How can the programmes and institutions run by the North-South Ministerial Council between Ireland and Northern Ireland and underpinned by EU law be best protected from the financial, political and practical fallout of Brexit?” Due to many of the topics being uncommon, explanatory guides are given to participants prior to the beginning of the session, to give enough time for individual research.
One, a variant of the Alligator River Story (commonly known as Abigail) is played with the intent of getting people to compromise on a situation in which everyone will have differing moral viewpoints.
It was the first such International Session hosted between two nations, and was designed to highlight the lasting peace between North and South.