Under the scheme, designed by the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF), young people between the ages of 16 and 36 would simply type an idea into a box on a web site and send it off for consideration for funding.
The proposal has received cross-party support within the European Parliament, where MEPs Damien Abad (France; European People's Party) and Judith Merkies (Netherlands; Socialists & Democrats) amongst other parliamentary supporters are seeking to obtain an explicit endorsement for the project within the Parliament's motion on the EU budget, set to be voted upon later this year.
That would clear the path to a Parliament-funded pilot and subsequently allow the scheme to garner wider institutional support.
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