an exclusive place for young, bright thinkers to come and discuss the issues that burn deep in their hearts, but flicker weakly in the European public debate.

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This is the heart of the Ideas Factory. Here you can feed your raw thoughts into the IF machinery and comment on those which have been posted.

Ideas Factory will organise discussion forums around the ideas that attract, inspire and enrage you the most and develop them further into our final products.
 


Latest Additions:


Harmonising the Right to Stop Loving (Kaisa Korhonen )

Europe needs European populism (Waldo Vanderhaeghen )

Just because I am a woman (Judith Poultney )

Happiness as a skill? (Joana Cruz )
 
The Europe in 2014 project is the latest addition to Ideas Factory Europe. This project has provided a platform for young thinkers in Brussels to discuss their ideas and expectation of the next Members of the European Parliament and the next College of Commissioners. Discussions centred around three topics: The Economic Crisis, Climate Change and Europe in the World.
 




Here you find reports and pictures of our previous meetings. See your fellow Ideas Factory workers in action and read what they were talking about.

 
   
 
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