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In 2015, we started advocating for our vision of free Interrail passes for all 18-year-old Europeans. Seven years later, that idea has become an official EU program called #DiscoverEU. It provides round about 70,000 tickets to young Europeans every year, enabling them to explore their continent for themselves and build their European identity. To this day, we are immensely grateful to all those, who helped this idea along the way and proved that citizens’ initiative matters:

Over the last weeks, we worked with EU youth Commissioner Tibor Navracsics on a joined article that highlights the importance of #DiscoverEU and the many benefits that the program has already achieved and will continue to once and as it is enlarged and expanded. The article appeared in numerous EU countries / languages und can be read here: Sweden Slovakia Germany Czech Republic Romania Finland Poland Spain Greece

We are so grateful to witness this idea unfolding further. Yesterday, another 14,500 EU youth were issued #FreeInterrail / #DiscoverEU tickets to discover this continent. We will keep working to ensure a future universal implementation.

After several years of work as change-makers and activists on a part-time and volunteer basis, 2019 will be a major new step for us. With the support of Stiftung Mercator & Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa, we will - for the first time - be able to devote significant time and resources on our #FreeInterrail work. So far, we had jobs and our activism on the side - now our activism will be our job. As a result we will devote decisively more time in promoting our idea in Berl