From 17^th until 24^th May 2021, the Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will hold its 13^th biennial People’s Forum  under the title “Asia Europe Peope’s Forum for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World”.

AEPF13 will tackle strategies on six major themes or People’s Visions, which represent AEPF’s hopes for citizens of Europe and Asia.  These are:

• Climate Justice and Just Transitions
• Food Sovereignty and Resources Justice
• Trade Justice and Corporate Accountability
• Social Justice and Social Protection
• Peace and Security
• Participatory Democracy, Human Rights and Migrants Rights

This is a call to social movements, frontline communities, campaigning networks, progressive NGOs, academics and parliamentarians across Asia and Europe to come and join us and be part of an event that is open, dynamic and inclusive and focuses on meaningful and practical discussions for change.

AEPF13 will be an exciting series of interlinked dialogues, workshops, actions, policy debates and open spaces. You can be part of this in many ways: from actively participating in the discussions and building of People’s Visions to co-organising an event.

We will have 3 main forums for discussion at AEPF13

1. Plenary sessions (organized by the AEPF International Organising Committee and Clusters)
2. Cluster activities (organized by AEPF clusters)
3. Open Spaces (co-organized by organisations in Europe and Asia that want to actively contribute to the AEPF13 programme)

We are inviting the potential co-organisers of Open Spaces to develop proposals for workshops.
The deadline for submitting proposals is April, 15.

THE ESSENTIALS: 

 The thematic must be relevant to AEPF and supportive of the principles outlined in the AEPF Charter  and contribute to discussions and reflections around the title of AEPF13 and the six themes (see above). 

1. The thematic must be relevant to AEPF and supportive of the principles outlined in the AEPF Charter  and contribute to discussions and reflections around the title of AEPF13 and the six themes (see above).
2. The focus should contribute to increasing Asia-Europe understanding, analysis and information about an issue. It should be dealt with from an Asia-Europe angle, covering:
   a. A European perspective
   b. An Asian perspective
   c. The Asia-Europe dimension of the issue
3. The co-organisers should be
   a. At least one organisation from Asia
   b. At least one organisation from Europe
4. Responsibilities of the co-organisers:
   a. Develop the agenda, background documents and requests for other resource people and communicate them with the AEPF Organisers
   b. The working language of the AEPF13 is English and Open Space events primary language is English but organisers are free to provide interpretation in other languages. Translation is the responsibility of co-organisers.
   Co-organisers are also asked to consider an appropriate sign language option if possible.
5. Possible activities:
   a. interlinked dialogues, films, music, workshops, calls to action, actions, policy debates, webinars,…
6. Expected Outputs:
   a. Concrete proposal(s) directed at the relevant decision makers including ASEM Parliamentarians but also the AEPF. These will be compiled by an agreed rapporteur and submitted to the AEPF People’s Agenda/Final Declaration Group, for possible inclusion in AEPF statements, as soon after the end of the workshop/Open Space as possible, and no later than the end of the AEPF13.
   b. A workshop/Open Space report (minimum of an A4 sized paper in length) must be submitted to the AEPF Communications Team no later than the end of the AEPF13. A format or template for the report shall be provided.
   Please also share a participants list

– For more information about open space proposals, please contact Raquel Castillo (raquel.aepf.2018@gmail.com) or Kris Vanslambrouck (kris.vanslambrouck@11.be)
– For more information about cluster proposals, please contact Kathy Bernaerts (kathy.bernaerts@11.be) or Andy Rutherford (andyfresheyes@gmail.com)