European Ideas is an independent and non-partisan platform encouraging an open debate about current issues directly affecting the future of the European continent.The organization's principal aim is to bring European politics closer to the citizens and to support the creation of a European public sphere. The European Ideas website features exclusive video-interviews, lectures, opinion pieces and short articles by academics and policy-makers on European affairs. Contributors have included Martin Schulz (President of the European Parliament), Viviane Reding (EU Commissioner), Johannes Hahn (EU Commissioner), Vesna Pusic (Croatian Foreign Minister), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (MEP), Ewald Nowotny (Governor of the Austrian Central Bank), Simon Hix (London School of Economics), Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge), Jan Zielonka (University of Oxford) and many others. European Ideas also organizes Discussion Workshops to give students and young professionals the opportunity to directly meet and exchange views with European policy-makers.European Ideas became a national winner of the 2012 European Charlemagne Youth Prize that is awarded by the European Parliament.