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The Social Inclusion Committee approves the European Charter on the participation of young people in local and regional life
The Social Inclusion Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities approved the revised text of the European Charter on the participation of young people in local and regional life. The text is to be discussed and adopted in the Congress session in October. In the Committee meeting,...
MEDIA ADVISORY: European Youth Conference next week in Portugal
Young people in local and regional life: Democracy in action!
The European Youth Conference “Young people in local and regional life: Democracy in action!” will take place from 5 to 7 February 2025 in the Youth Centre Braga, in Portugal. The Braga Youth Conference is the largest gathering of young people and local authorities in 2025, anchoring youth...
Youth Space Conference 2024: Young people from 21 countries discuss the future of Europe in the German Bundestag
From 13 to 15 November, young people from across Europe gathered for the 2024 Youth Space Conference (Y-Space) in the German Bundestag. This event, now for the third time, was organised by the German Federal Youth Council (DBJR), the German Bundestag, the German delegation to the Parliamentary...
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Call for participants: Training course “Youth advocacy for democracy and human rights”
26 – 31 January 2025 European Youth Centre Strasbourg The training course “Youth advocacy for democracy and human rights” takes place in Strasbourg, between 26 and 31 January 2025 and is co-organised by the Council of Europe Youth Department and the European Youth Forum and the German Federal...
APPLY BEFORE 4 NOVEMBER 2024
Call for participants: European Youth Conference "Young people in local and regional life: Democracy in action! "
The European Youth Conference takes place in Braga, between 5 and 7 February and is co-organised by the Council of Europe Youth Department and the Braga Youth Centre, and in partnership with the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Municipality of Braga, the Portuguese Institute for...
Compass for formal and non-formal education: training course in Ukraine
Youth workers, teachers, and educators from all regions of Ukraine are participating in a national training course on human rights education from 21 to 25 July 2024 in Lviv, the European Youth Capital of 2025. This Compass national training course is organised by the Centre for Educational...
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 24 May 2024, 14:00 CET
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Seminar "Let’s get political ! Youth, politics and elections" 2nd edition
In the framework of the project Youth revitalising democracy, the Youth Department organises a seminar to discuss the ways in which young people can be empowered and supported to take part in democratic political life across the continent. It particularly focuses on the engagement of young people...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Training course "Young activists for democracy"
Between 15-20 April 2024, the Youth Department organises the second edition of the training course Young activists for democracy to take place in the European Youth Centre Budapest The course builds on the achievements of the training course held in 2023 and aims to further strengthen the...
Youth dialogue 2023 – Young people take a stance for participation at local and regional level
Youth Regional Centre of Ajara region (Georgia) in partnership with the Youth Agency of Georgia organised in the framework of the project Youth revitalising democracy an international forum on enhancing youth participation at local and regional level. The activity took place in Batumi, Georgia...
Romania for young people, too? National Youth Council organises a debate on political youth participation ahead of the super elections year
The National Youth Council of Romania organised the conference “Romania for young people, too?” on 29 November 2023 in the Parliament of Romania. Organised in the framework of the project Youth revitalising democracy, the conference brought together young people and political representatives to...
Let’s get political! Young people stand for a politics of democracy and human rights
In the framework of the project Youth revitalising democracy, the Council of Europe Youth Department organised the seminar on engament of young people in political life, entitled Let’s get political. The seminar brought together eighty participants, young representatives of political parties and...
Let’s get political! Young people stand for a politics of democracy and human rights
In the framework of the project Youth revitalising democracy, the Council of Europe Youth Department organised the seminar on engament of young people in political life, entitled Let’s get political. The seminar brought together eighty participants, young representatives of political parties and...
Let’s get political! Call for participants for a seminar on engagement of young people in political life
How do we support and empower young people to engage in political life of our communities? What barriers and challenges are hindering youth political participation? How do young people express their political grievances today? If you are interested in all these questions and more, if you work on...
It’s 15 September: Youth can revitalise democracy!
The International Day of Democracy, celebrated worldwide on 15 September, is a good opportunity to recall the challenges faced by democracies and the important role that young people can and must play in revitalising democratic processes. The Youth Department supports young activists and civil...
A training course to develop the capacity of youth civil society to advocate in the Council of Europe
Call for participants for Youth advocacy for democracy and human rights - training course
Do you want to advocate for and with young people towards the Council of Europe? Do you want to learn how to develop advocacy strategies, initiatives and actions that strengthen youth participation in processes to revitalise democracy? Are you a representative of a national youth council, an...
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Seminar on the role of local youth councils in strengthening democracy
The Council of Europe Youth Department runs a project entitled Youth revitalising democracy, that follows-up on the results of its 2022 youth campaign Democracy Here | Democracy Now. The project aims to restore the mutual trust between young people and democratic institutions and processes. In...
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Training course Young activists for democracy
Are you a young activist? Do you want to take action for democracy, human rights, and youth participation? Apply to the training course Young activists for democracy and join our project Democracy Here | Democracy Now. The Council of Europe Youth Department runs a project entitled Youth...
Youth Centre, National Youth Foundation, Bucharest, 27 February - 4 March 2023
Training courses for youth workers on human rights education with young Ukrainian refugees and host communities in Romania
The training courses aim to develop the competences of youth workers to prepare, implement and evaluate human rights education activities and programmes based on the approaches of Compass – The Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People. The courses bring together 42 participants, youth...
Conference to discuss the follow-up of the Democracy Here | Democracy Now youth campaign
The Youth Department has started the implementation of the project “Youth revitalising democracy”, a response to the challenges faced by democratic systems and institutions in recent years. The project follows up the youth campaign Democracy Here | Democracy Now and aims to strengthen the...
Call for participants for conference on evaluation and follow-up to the youth campaign Democracy Here | Democracy Now
The Council of Europe Youth Department organises, under the patronage of the Icelandic presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, the Conference on evaluation and follow-up of the Democracy Here | Democracy Now youth campaign between 31 January and 2 February 2023 in the...
