Welcome to Education in Europe, brought to you by the Green European Foundation with financial

support from the Robert Bosch Stifton and the European Parliament.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Children are asked that question all the time.

But no kid really knows for sure what possibilities lie before them, what kind of job they'll have,

what kind of citizen they might become. Today we talk with Elyche Babieri, and for her,

those futures begin inside the childhood dreams of young Italians in the city of Genova.

Elice wants girls and boys to start designing their lives at a young age, and she encourages

them to think actively about the educational paths they might take into the adult worlds

of professions, work, and civic life.

Today we hear about Eliche's work and talk to her about why self-confidence among young girls

and equality among all young people are the cornerstones of a healthy, participatory

democratic society.

Sometimes, person around us are against our dreams, but we can't still continue to dream and achieve the dream.

And probably the person that are around us are not really against the dream, but are afraid

for us.

If you need something, if you want something and you learn to speak out and to express

and share your dreams, your needs, then you will continue.

It starts in a personal level, in a family environment, but then we hope that the same

approach it will be useful in the society and for

them as citizen.

I'm Benjamin Lorge and this is education in Europe.

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