27/05/2013
Social Inclusion for Active Youth  Participation - Study session of “Participation for All” , 26 May – 2 June 2013

„Participation for All” (PAFA) is an International network of youth organisations and NGOs working with young people, youth workers and professionals. Member organisations of PAFA are dedicated to participation and inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities, particularly with physical disabilities, by means of non-formal education.
The study session gives the opportunity for participants to exchange the experiences on non-formal education initiatives and practices in the field of social inclusion and participation of young people with disabilities.
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13/05/2013
LET US READ THE CONVENTION! - Nurturing Human Rights

The Andorran Chairmanship of the Council of Europe is launching a campaign in support of the values promoted by the European Convention on Human Rights as it has made us aware that intolerance and discrimination are unacceptable.
LET US READ the Convention and make sure it is put into practice!
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02/05/2013

Updated catalogue of Youth Centres available

The updated catalogue with presentations of Youth Centres which participated in the 2010-2013
European Platform meetings can be consulted now on-line.

The European Platform of Youth Centres is organised annually and is a platform for exchange and knowledge sharing among the centres associating to the Council of Europe.

Presentation of Youth Centres (catalogue) May 2013 >>>

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19/04/2013

‘A young volunteer can do anything – strengthening youth activism on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ 

From 23-27 April, members from the Youth Sexual Awareness for Europe (YSAFE) network will gather at the European Youth Centre in Budapest for a Study Session.
YSAFE is a youth network that unites youth volunteers active in Member Associations of the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network (IPPF EN) .
The session aims to strengthen youth activism and networking on Comprehensive Sexuality Education within a human rights framework at regional and national level in Europe and Central Asia.
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15/04/2013

 TC Moderators in the EYCB - Training workshop for online volunteers (15-16 April)

The online volunteers are activists with special competencies and role for the online platform and tools of the No Hate Speech On-line Campaign and are key actors in the campaign, particularly in the European and national aspects.
The online volunteers are the ones to shape and build the online community and to ensure the content of the online platform.
The training workshop aims to support the group of online volunteer activists of the campaign to develop their competences in managing the platform of the campaign, to get to know each other, learn about the campaign and plan their work together.

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 04/04/2013

Participation and Democracy: a Legal Framework for School Student Rights

From 7th to 14th of April the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions is organising a Study Session entitled “Participation and democracy: A legal framework for school student rights” at the European Youth Centre in Budapest in co-operation with the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation, Youth Department of the Council of Europe.

This Study Session looks at the existing tools available for school student organisations to achieve their aims and make their voices heard.
The event explores the possibilities for school students and their organisation to advocate for full democratic participation on national and European level.
It aims to make participants familiar with the Charter on EDC-HRE and other relevant documents at disposal to demand full participation; to establish a common ground and develop a shared understanding on the topic of participation and democracy; to make participants reflect about their organisations work on participation and democracy and share their personal experiences; to encourage networking amongst participatns and develop effective follow up plans; to build the partcipants knowledge of exisiting tools in Europe, inlcuding legal mechanisms, and develop their skills in how to use these to advocate for a full democratic participation on national and European level and to explore, explain and inform participants about the different levels and definitions of participation and democracy around Europe.

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04/04/2013

First award ceremony of the CoE Quality Label for Youth Centres

The first award ceremony of the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres to the Euromed Youth Centre (Adrasan, Turkey) and The Youth Cultural Center Brežice (Brežice, Slovenia) took place in the EYCB yesterday.
Ms Seija Astala, Chair of European Steering Committee on Youth handed over the Label to Prof. Dr. İsrafil Kurtcephe, Rector of Akdeniz University (Turkey) and Ms Nataša Kalin, in charge of international cooperation, Brezice Youth Cultural Center (Slovenia) - the represantatives of the two centres which acquired the Label first.
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No Hate Speech Movement! Youth Campaign for Human Rights Online (2013-2014)

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No Hate Speech Movement - Official Launching

The official Launching event of the No Hate Speech Movement will take place on the 22nd March at 10.30 a.m in the foyer of the hemicycle of the Council of Europe’s main building (the Palais).
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Thorbjørn Jagland will launch the Movement alongside two members from the Statutory Committees of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, Ms Aleksandra Mitrovic (European Steering Committee for Youth) and Mr Sergio Belfor (Advisory Council) and Mr Peter Matjašič, President of the European Youth Forum.
After the launching event the official online Campaign platform and the European Hate Speech Watch will be open for the public at www.nohatespeechmovement.org

The Secretary General will also join the Campaign himself by uploading his own video message on the Campaign platform, and will contribute to Campaign on Twitter and Facebook.

The event will be streamed live online here.

24/02/2013

Youth Encountering Environmental Human Rights

Study session co-organised by International Young Naturefriends (IYNF)

During this seminar the participants will explore the topic of environmental human rights and active youth participation.
Youth workers, educators and activists will share experience in local and global environmental matters, learn about the related international treaties.
They will disccus - among others - how to defend their rights and the rights of the communities that are affected by the abuse of local ecosystems and climate change and learn good practices of peaceful activism.
The organisers also aim at building a network of young people willing to multiply their knowledge and creating follow-up initiatives and projects.

15/02/2013

Long-term Training Course with Serbian Youth Workers and Trainers

The third and last phase of the Long term training course for trainers in youth participation and youth policy for social inclusion in the Republic of Serbia has started today in the European Youth Centre Budapest, bringing together 21 participants, governmental representatives and educational staff of the Council of Europe for 5 days of training focusing on quality of non-formal education and the role of trainers.

The long term training course for trainers on democratic youth participation and youth policy for social inclusion in Serbia is the result of an outstanding cooperation between the Council of Europe Youth Department and the Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Serbia. The course started in February 2012, bringing together 25 participants from Serbia and neighbouring countries. Participants are trainers, youth workers, youth leaders or civil servants actively working on issues of youth policy and youth participation at local, national or European level, motivated to further develop their training competences in non-formal education with a particular focus on youth participation, youth policy and social cohesion. The course aims to develop the competences of twenty-five trainers, coming from Serbia and the neighbouring area, to contribute to the development of the quality of youth work in Serbia, based on the quality standards developed by the Council of Europe.

After the residential seminar, it is expected that participants will act as an informal network of trainers in the Republic of Serbia and neighbouring region contributing to the development of quality projects that ensure youth participation and translate into youth policy.

You can find the detailed programme of the second residential course here.

11/02/2013

Revised edition of the Quality Label brochure

The Youth Department has produced the revised English version of the brochure “The Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres”.
The brochure presents the set of criteria and the procedure for youth centres that aim at acquiring the Quality Label.
 
The brochure is downloadable from here  >>>
 
For more information on the project please visit >>>

31/01/2013

Living Library School Project – Documentary Film

14/01/2013

Hearing on the challenges faced by Young Refugees and Asylum seekers in Europe accessing their social rights and their integration, while in transition to adulthood

On 14 January the European Youth Centre Budapest is hosting a hearing on "the challenges face by Young Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Transition to Adulthood". This hearing is organised by the Youth Department and the Committee on Migration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in cooperation with the UNHCR offices of Strasbourg and Budapest. The meeting is attended by young refugees, youth workers and governmental representatives. The outcomes will contribute to the report by Ms. Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) of the Parliamentary Assembly on "Unaccompanied migrant children: what rights at 18?"

For more information on the subject please see a report from the consultative meeting organised by the Youth Department in 2011 in English or in French
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29/11/2012

Revised COMPASS just published

The revised version of "COMPASS - Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People" has recently been published in English language by the Council of Europe.

COMPASS is a practical tool and resource for citizenship and human rights education. It is an essential companion for all those who are curious and interested in making the right to human rights education a reality for everyone.

COMPASS was originally published in 2002 and is now available in more than 30 languages. A version specifically designed for human rights education with children – COMPASITO – enjoys a similar success. This fully revised and updated edition includes new activities and information about human rights issues such as disability and disablism, migration, religion, remembrance, war and terrorism.

COMPASS provides youth leaders, teachers and facilitators of human rights education activities, whether professional or volunteers, with concrete ideas and practical activities to engage, involve and motivate young people in living, learning and acting for human rights. It promotes a comprehensive perspective on human rights education and sees young people as actors for a culture of universal human rights.

For more information on this publication, please contact the European Youth Centre Budapest.

For the downloadable pdf-version please click here.

27/11/2012

"Tackling Hate Speech: Living Together Online" - 27-28 Nov 2012, EYC Budapest

The European Youth Centre Budapest is hosting the conference “Tackling Hate Speech: Living Together Online” on 27 and 28 November, which is being co-organised by the Council of Europe and the EEA and Norway Grants.

Among the representatives of a wide range of European and international organisations, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and George Soros, Founder of the Open Society Foundations, were the keynote speakers of the event.

Participants will discuss the nature, extent and impact of hate speech in today’s world as well as different options for tackling the phenomenon – including issues related to self-regulation and moderation of online discussion forums and how best to tackle so-called “hate speech” – especially online – whilst also protecting freedom of expression.

Following an opening press conference, Zoltán Balog, Hungarian Minister for Human Resources, formally welcomed participants to the event. Other speakers will include:

- Gabriella Cseh, Facebook’s head of European policy
- Frank la Rue, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression
- Jenö Kaltenbach, Chair of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
- Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch
- Torgeir Larsen, State Secretary at the Norwegian Foreign Ministry

Representatives of the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency, the International Network against Cyber-hate and the European Broadcasting Union will also give their views.

The conference can be followed online at: mms://webcast.coe.int/budapest

For the programme and more information please visit the official website of the conference.

21/11/2012

Training workshop Action and Campaigning against Hate speech (22-24 November 2012)

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The Council of Europe Youth Department in partnership with the EEA and Norway Grants are organising a training workshop entitled Action and Campaigning against hate speech online in European Youth Centre Budapest between 22-24 November 2012.

The workshop is part of the Council of Europe project Young People Combating Hate Speech Online and precedes the conference “Tackling Hate Speech: Living Together Online” (27-28 November 2012, European Youth Centre Budapest) organized by the same partnership.

The workshop aims to train young bloggers and online human rights activists about hate speech online and prepare them to play an active role in addressing it at national and European level.
The workshop will strive to develop a common understanding of hate speech, its forms and consequences, and the conceptual and legal framework of action against hate speech, but as well to mobilise youth leaders, bloggers and online human rights activists for action and initiatives against hate speech and develop common guidelines and objectives to be applied in national activities and projects.

The workshop is also an opportunity to discuss possible common measures and actions at European level to support networking and learning among the 15 beneficiary countries of the EEA and Norway grants and to identify links and synergies with the Online Youth Campaign of the Council of Europe.

The workshop brings together 55 participants from different organisations across Europe interested to further develop their competences and take an active role in the campaign against hate speech online to be launched by the Council of Europe in 2013.
The programme of the workshop is available here.

You can follow the training workshop online at:

TWITTER
We are announcing our official hashtag for the workshop which is #speaknohate and you can also follow our Twitter activity through our account: @coe_dys. We will be tweeting in real-time about the topics and issues we will discuss, the atmosphere in the workshops. You can also tweet with the #speaknohate hashtag your opinion about hate speech, share examples from your own country and address questions to our guest speakers.

FACEBOOK
We will sum up all sessions in Facebook Page of the Council of Europe – Youth Department (https://www.facebook.com/CouncilofEuropeYouth), as well as publish photos & videos from the workshops. If you don`t feel comfortable to Tweet your opinion, share the story or address questions in 140 characters, you can do that in our Facebook Page. Hence, do not hesitate to engage with us.

LIVESTREAM
Several sessions where our guest speakers will present their work will be Livestreamed with good audio & video quality. This is great chance to learn more from firsthand experts and professionals about variety of topics, such are: hate speech, human rights, anti-racism education, discrimination etc. So, you can find our livestream channel in the following link: http://act4hre.coe.int/ or here: http://webcast.coe.int/budapestearly.
A programme of the livestream is available here.

STORIFY
And if you missed the all the activities and workshops, we will make sure to highlight the most important moments & discussions through our Storify account, which will be published every end of the day. Here is the link if you are interested to read the highlights of the day: http://storify.com/COE_DYS

WEBSITE
You can read further information about the project, the workshop and have access to presentations and reports of working groups at the projects website: http://act4hre.coe.int

YPA networking Conference - 6-8 November 2012

Between 6th and 8th November 70 participants of the Youth Peace Ambassadors project will meet at the European Youth Centre Budapest for the YPA Networking Conference.

The Youth Peace Ambassadors project (YPA) promotes and supports the role of young people in peace-building activities that contribute to living together in dignity and dialogue. The project builds on the Council of Europe’s understanding of sustainable peace, which is ensured when human rights, rule of law and democracy is a reality for all people in Europe equally.

Three groups of approximately 25 participants each were selected and have started a long term training process that included two residential seminars, e-learning and a practice phase for groups A and B and a project phases with mentoring for all three groups. Until the YPA Networking conference all three groups have worked independently and followed their own training trajectory, covering however the same topics and skills.

The Networking conference is the first meeting were all participants of all three groups meet. After the seminar the three groups will have merged into one group of 75 Youth Peace Ambassadors participants. The networking Conference aims to set up the aims of the network, identify working priorities and a possible structure for management of the network and its governance.
 

Phiren Amenca - The European boogie Man Complex

Between 14th and the 20th October 34 young people gather at the European Youth Centre in Budapest to attend Phiren Amenca’s study session “The European boogie Man Complex” on antigypsyism. The study session aims to raise the awareness and youth activism to challenge stereotypes racism as well as to support the work of young Roma and non-Roma volunteers in their voluntary service placements across the world. The youth are Roma and non-Roma volunteers, former volunteers, volunteer candidates and youth leaders who are active in Roma communities and experienced in working with Roma communities and/or Roma youth.
 

UNOY Peacebuilders - Youth Advocacy for Peace

The European Youth Centre Budapest hosts between 14th and 20th October a study session organised by the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY Peacebuilders) in cooperation with Fundació Catalunya Voluntària (FCV), Support Initiative for Liberty and Democracy (SILBA), and Centro Internazionale per la Promozione dell’Educazione e lo Sviluppo (CEIPES). The purpose of the study session is to give youth peace NGOs an opportunity to reflect on advocacy, as well as to share practices and ideas on how to improve their advocacy work. The outcome of the study session will assist youth NGOs of UNOY Peacebuilders’ network in their role as active stakeholders by working together on a common advocacy strategy for the network.
 

Training Course for Roma youth leaders/activists for promoting human rights and taking action against discrimination

The youth sector of the Council of Europe organises between 20 and 29 October 2012 a training course for Roma youth leaders and young activists. 34 participants from 18 countries will be trained on how to develop youth initiatives and actions in their communities, in order to fight discrimination and anti-Gypsyism. The course is organised in the framework of the Council of Europe Roma Youth Action Plan.

Draft Programme
Draft List of participants and project ideas
Presentation of the Course

21/09/2012

Tell us what you think!

In the framework of the project "Young people combating hate speech online", the Youth Department of the Council of Europe launches a survey on young people's attitudes and experience of online hate speech.
The project aims to combat racism and discrimination in their online expression of hate speech by equipping young people and youth organisations with the competences necessary to recognise and act against such human rights violations. The project is centred around an online campaign against hate speech to be launched in 2013.

The survey targets young people in Europe and beyond and is intended to provide empirical data to support further research (very much missing on the topic) and support us in shaping better the online campaign against hate speech. The survey takes only 15 minutes and is available in English and French (A Russian version will be available soon.).

We invite you to complete the survey and also disseminate it among your networks of members, partners and young people so that we gather as much data as possible. The surveys will be closed on 4th October 2012, therefor we count on your immediate action in its dissemination.

Preliminary results will be made available in the Preparatory seminar of the campaign taking place in the European Youth Centre Strasbourg, between 10-12 October 2012 and on the youth website.

You can read more about the project here

10/09/2012

Vacancy Notice - Principle Administrative Assistant at the EYCB- Temporary Contract

Job Mission

Under the authority of the Head of Division Education and Training and of the Executive director of the European Youth Centre Budapest, the successful candidate will ensure professional assistance to the project Young People Combating Hate Speech On-line, in particular the preparation, implementation and follow-up of the Workshop for Bloggers and On-line activists, in accordance with procedures, guidelines and priorities and with a concern for quality, efficiency and accuracy. For more details please check the job description.

Deadline for applications: 18 September 2012, 17 hrs CET
 

05/09/2012

Training Course of Youth Peace Ambassadors (Group C)

Between 3rd and 7th September 24 young people from across Europe gather at the European Youth Centre in Budapest for their second seminar addressing conflict resolution, intercultural dialogue and human rights. These youth are members of Group C of the Youth Peace Ambassadors project. The project started in 2011 and continues until 2013 aiming to empower young people in their role as multipliers and youth leaders in peace-building activities in their communities through their involvement in civil society organisations and projects.
 

12/03/2012

Living Library documentary and revised organisers' guide

The Youth Department of the Council of Europe has produced a documentary “Let’s Take the Feminist – The Living Library Experience” which was shot at 2011 Sziget Festival. The 26-minute feature documentary is in Hungarian with English subtitles and presents the best moments of the traditional Living Library event of the European Youth Centre Budapest. The film is also distributed as a DVD compendium to the revised Living Library organisers’ guide “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover.”
 

05/03/2012

OBESSU study session "Special Needs" in the EYCB

06/02/2012

Training course for trainers in human rights education

25/11/2011

Study Session ‘Why do not change prejudices into experiences’ organised by ‘Loesje International’ in cooperation with ‘Loesje Armenia’

4/11/2011

Enter! Youth Meeting movies

25/09/2011

Roma Youth Conference - Terne Romengiri Konferencija in the EYC Strasbourg

12/08/2011

Living Library on the Sziget Festival 2011

24/05/2011

Council of Europe announced 2011 Youth Media Award

04/05/2011

Human Rights Education and Advocacy Activism – Learning for Change

01/04/2011

Human Sentenced to Death - A Meeting with Joaquín José Martínez

Friday, April 1, 2011 17.00-19:00

03/2011

Human rights education with and by school students

Organising Bureau of School Students Unions and the Directorate of Youth and Sport organised a study session on “Human Rights Education with and by school students: empowering school students to be peer educators in HRE" between 6-13 March 2011 at the European Youth Centre Budapest.

The study session aimed to provide school student representatives with knowledge about HRE and with tools to act as multipliers in their local realities. OBESSU believes that Human Rights Education is not given enough space in school curricula around Europe and for this reason they want to offer school student unions the opportunity to learn more about HRE and acquire concrete means to transfer this knowledge to their peers.

The participants will follow up the study session by organising peer-to-peer Human Rights Education sessions at national level with the support of their home organisations and will feed-back their experiences in the living manual they are creating on their website.

A short film about the study session, realised by the participants is available here.

The study session contributes directly to the Human Rights Education Youth Programme, run by Directorate of Youth and Sport since 2001, in order to contribute to the promotion of the core mission and the values of the Council of Europe related to human rights and democracy.

To follow the study session latest developments and their discussion take a look here.

To learn more about study sessions and how your international youth organisation/network could benefit from them take a look here.

M.A. European Youth Studies Project - Short seminar in Budapest

The M.A. European Youth Studies (M.A. EYS) Project organised a residential seminar at the EYCB in February 2011.

The seminar is a core component of the 2011 Short Course, itself a pilot for the upcoming transnational and intercultural postgraduate degree in interdisciplinary European youth studies.

The development process is currently funded by the Socrates-Erasmus chapter of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme and supported by the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Youth and Sport and the EU-COE Youth Partnership.

This degree course aims to set the quality reference point and benchmark for improving and sustaining the development of European youth research as a distinct field of education and scholarship. The only specialist degree of its kind, it aims to fill an education and qualification gap at national and European levels.

More information:  http://www.youthstudies.eu

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16/02/2011

The Secretary General’s visit to the European Youth Centre Budapest

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, visited Budapest on January 14th for a series of official meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the President of the Constitutional Court and members of the Hungarian government and Parliament.

Mr. Jagland also visited the EYCB where he opened an information session of the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe, attended by a small select group of representatives of Hungarian local authorities and various ministries.

The Secretary General also held a meeting with the EYCB staff to discuss the ongoing reform process and to answer questions by staff members.

Photos from the Information Session on the Intercultural Cities Programme >>>

14/01/2011

1st EU-Level Thematic Conference for the European Year of Volunteering at the Council of Europe’s European Youth Centre Budapest

The official launch of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 took place on January 8th in Budapest as part of the series of events linked to the inauguration of the Hungarian presidency of the EU.

Accompanying the launch was the 1st EU-level thematic conference for the EYV 2011 entitled “Recognising the contribution of volunteering to economy, society and the individual – where are we now, and where do we want to go?”.

The event, held at the European Youth Centre Budapest, brought together more than two hundred of the main stakeholders in the field of volunteering in Europe and was opened by the keynote speeches of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Viviane Reding, and Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Administration and Justice, Tibor Navracsics.

The plenary panel discussion was moderated by the Executive Director of the EYCB, Antje Rothemund and it included contributions from Mr Staffan Nilsson, President of the European Economic and Social Committee, Ms Flavia Pansieri, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers Programme,  Ms Marian Harkin MEP, and Ms Gabriela Civico representing the EYV 2011 Alliance.

During the panel discussion, attention was brought to the recent resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the promotion of volunteering in Europe as a relevant and useful guide for the achievement of the ambitious goals of the thematic year.
 

For more information visit the EYV 2011 Alliance website >>>

Consult the  programme of the conference >>>

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08/01/2011

10th December - Human Rights Festival at the EYC Budapest

The Festival's mission was to celebrate the Human Rights Day which marks the anniversary of  the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.

In co-operation with the European Youth Centre Budapest and more than 40 NGOs,  the main organiser, Mobilitás Hungarian National Youth Service (service of Public Employment Service, FSZH) wished to contribute also to the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion 2010.

The Festival offered a wide range of activities such as presentations, round-table discussions, concerts and theatre performances, as well as interactive workshops, exhibitions and an NGO-fair.

Read detailed information on the Festival >>>

December 2010

EYCB hosts Group of Eminent Persons

The 2nd meeting of the Group of Eminent Persons took place in the European Youth Centre Budapest on 2 December , the discussions focused on the situation of Roma in Europe .

The Group is chaired by Joschka Fischer and works on preparing a report within the context of the Pan-European project ''Living together in 21st century Europe''.

The picture shows the Group of Eminent Persons meeting spontaneously with participants of the study sessions taking place at the Centre.
 
Read more on the Group of Eminent Persons >>>

 December 2010

Asian and European youth representatives meet on Environment and Human Rights

The Council of Europe – Directorate of Youth and Sport - and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)  gathered 30 young people from Asia and Europe to participate in the Asia-Europe Training Course on Environmental Human Rights. The training course was organised in cooperation with the International Workcamp Organization (IWO) in Korea. It took place in Paju, Korea, from 9 to 15 November and focused on the challenges for Youth Work in relation to the Environment and Human Rights.
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November 2010

2nd residential seminar of the ENTER! Long Term Training Course

From 27th September- 6th October, 26 participants gathered in the European Youth Centre Budapest fort he 2nd residential seminar of the Long Term Training Course (LTTC) on the Access to Social Rights of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
The LTTC is part of the tri-annual project ENTER! organised by the Directorate of Youth and Sports of the Council of Europe and aims at developing youth policy responses to exclusion, discrimination and violence affecting young people in multicultural disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

This second seminar in Budapest hold the purpose of consolidating participants’ learning so far and evaluate their project development. It also helped participants to further develop their expertise on Social Rights and to explore how youth policy can influence their work at local level.
Within the programme of the seminar, participants had the opportunity to visit a local organisation, Kesztyugyár. They were introduced to the educational programme of the community centre and had a chance to explore the neighbourhood and see how urban regeneration can contribute to social inclusion.

Participants further developed the next steps of their projects and will meet again for a final seminar in Strasbourg in May 2011.

For detailed information visit the ENTER! project's website >>>



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October 2010

The Council of Europe Directorate of Youth and Sport and ERYICA hold joint colloquy on Youth Information

Social Platform's networking visit in Hungary

In the framework of the networking visit in Hungary, the Platform of European Social NGOs (Social Platform) held its conference entitled “Impact of the crisis on people, civil society organisations and social policies” at the EYCB on 15-16 September.

The conference – including panel debates, field visits and different workshops – aimed at assisting the delegations in gaining deeper insight into the impact of the crisis on Hungary. Special attention was paid to the question of civil dialogue in Hungary and the situation of the Roma and LGBT communities.
 

Four key messages to decision makers by the present social civil society organisations came out during the meeting:

1) Ensure partnership in Europe 2020 process

2) Underline the quality employment, not only ‘jobs’

3) Act in favour of compromise-based financial mechanisms for civil society organizations

4) Give a recognition to volunteering

Roma Rights Summer School at the EYCB

The European Roma Rights Centre held its annual Roma Rights Summer School from 25 July to 4 August 2010.
The intensive 10-day course involved 22 young Romani and Traveller participants who learnt about international human rights legislation and Romani issues.
Read more >>>