Council of Europe resources
The EYF and the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres
Since 2010, the Council of Europe awards a Quality Label for Youth Centres that meets a set of quality criteria.
The EYF encourages the use of these quality-labelled Youth Centres to organise EYF-supported youth activities.
For more information about these centres, please click here.
The EYF and Council of Europe's publications
The youth sector of the Council of Europe has developed throughout the years many ressources for youth organisations and not only. Have a look at the specific webpage dedicated to the variety of resource available. Many publications are available in several languages and may be useful for youth projects. Below we include a selection of some of these resources, divided by topics.
CITIZENSHIP
Digital citizenship education
In 2016, the Education Department of the Council of Europe began work to develop new policy orientations and strategies to help educators face the new challenges linked to digital citizenship and to empower young people by helping them to acquire the competences they need to participate actively and responsibly in digital society.
This volume, the first in a Digital Citizenship Education series, reviews the existing academic and policy literature on digital citizenship education, highlighting definitions, actors and stakeholders, competence frameworks, practices, emerging trends and challenges. The inclusion of a wide selection of sources is intended to ensure sufficient coverage of what is an emergent topic that has yet to gain a strong foothold in either education or academic literature, but has received wider policy attention.
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CHILDREN's RIGHTS
"So, this is sexual abuse?"
Sexuality is often difficult to talk about, especially for teenagers. This happen
s in particular when they experience feelings like shame, guilt or fear when discussing it.
However, there are always persons that children can trust and rely on if something is hurting them, or if they have questions. It can be a parent, a family member, a teacher, a psychologist, child helpline officers - anyone they feel they can safely open up to and find the right solution to keep them or their friends safe.
The publication “So, this is sexual abuse?” reproduces conversations between young people and adults, offering insights into the ways in which sexual violence and sexual abuse and exploitation of children can occur today. Its key message is to show children that they should not stay silent and alone when they have questions about certain sexual behaviours, about their rights to say “no” or on what they should do when sexually explicit pictures or images are shared online.
Reading the stories of others, you learn about your rights.
This child-friendly booklet raises awareness about the provisions of “The Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse”, also known as “the Lanzarote Convention”. It allows children to understand what this convention does for them and how to make use of their rights.
This online publication is available in English, Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian and Slovakian.
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GENDER
EYF Gender perspective toolbox
This non-exhaustive toolbox aims at being a hands-on guide for youth NGOs on how to integrate a gender perspective when organising youth activities. It proposes seven key methods that NGOs could easily adopt in the processes and different steps when organising a youth activity: preparation, implementation, follow-up.
It was first piloted during the 2017 EYF (Re)wind Seminar in Strasbourg, during which the EYF discussed this tool with representatives of youth NGOs and received their feedback.
Available in EN
Gender Matters: a manual on gender-based violence
Gender Matters is a manual on gender-based violence affecting young people.The manual constitutes a useful introduction to gender and gender-based violence for people who work with young people, by providing reflections on gender and gender-based violence, a background to key social, political and legal issues.It provides practical methods and resources for education and awareness-raising activities with young people.
Gender Matters was first published in 2007, within the Human Rights Education Youth Programme of the Council of Europe. It followed and built on Compass, the popular manual on human rights education with young people and Compasito. Both of these publications make reference to issues of gender, gender equality and gender-based violence.
Gender Matters has been used as an educational resource in numerous educational activities run at the European Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest. Translated into several languages, the manual has reached youth groups and youth organisations across Europe, supporting work against the gender-based violence.The growing awareness of gender inequality and gender-based violence as obstacles to the full participation and development of young people needs to be accompanied by up-to-date and accessible educational resources.
Gender Matters is an important resource in support of the Council of Europe youth sector strategy 2030 and the Youth for Democracy programme, notably regarding young people’s access to rights, human rights education and combating all forms of discrimination with an intersectional approach. (More about Gender Equality and Youth)
This manual is also useful for pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 5 on Gender Equality, and the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Strategy.
Available in EN and FR
You can order Gender Matters on the online Council of Europe bookshop.
Safe at school: Education sector responses to violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or sex characteristics in Europe 
This report, which was produced in partnership with UNESCO, provides an overview of violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or sex characteristics in European schools, explores how member States seek to prevent or address it, and makes recommendations to national education sectors to better do so.
The report is primarily directed to Education policy-makers, including ministers of education and their staff, and staff in education agencies and institutes, teachers, educational staff and other educational professionals responsible for students’ safety, health and wellbeing, National Human Rights Agencies and Institutions tasked with establishing and enforcing human rights standards in member States, staff of governmental and intergovernmental agencies working to eliminate all forms of gender-based and/or school based violence.
Available in EN
HATE SPEECH
We can! Taking action against Hate Speech through 
Counter and Alternative Narratives
This manual presents communicative and educational approaches and tools for youth and other human rights activists to develop their own counter and alternative narratives to hate speech.
It is designed for working with young people from the age of 13. Based on the principles of human rights education and youth participation, We CAN! complements the manual Bookmarks.
Bookmarks 
Hate speech is one of the most worrying forms of racism and discrimination prevailing across Europe and amplified by the Internet and social media. Young people are directly concerned as agents and victims of online abuse of human rights.
Bookmarks is published to support the No Hate Speech Movement youth campaign of the Council of Europe for human rights online. Bookmarks is useful for educators wanting to address hate speech online, both inside and outside the formal education system.
Available in EN and FR.
Manual on hate speech 
Identifying what constitutes "hate speech" is especially difficult because this type of speech does not necessarily involve the expression of hatred or feelings.
On the basis of all the applicable texts on freedom of expression and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and other bodies, the author identifies certain parameters that make it possible to distinguish expressions which, although sometimes insulting, are fully protected by the right to freedom of expression from those which do not enjoy that protection.
Available in EN and FR.
The EYF & the NHSM
With this updated publication, the European Youth Foundation would like to outline its involvement in the No Hate Speech Movement campaign and to present examples of the projects that illustrate the diversity of initiatives that are being supported. The role of the Foundation in combating hate speech has been ongoing.
Available in EN.
HUMAN RIGHTS
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Human Rights Education in Action - Practices of Human Rights Education with and by young people
“Human Rights Education in Action - Practices of Human Rights Education with and by young people” is a new publication of the Youth Department, with the aim to share good practices of Human Rights Education. The projects mentioned in it have a link to the work of the Council of Europe, are inspired by the publications of the Youth Department and/or are supported by the European Youth Foundation.
Compass
COMPASS provides youth leaders, teachers and facilitators of human rights education activities, whether professionals 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.
Available in EN and FR.
Compasito
Compasito is a starting point for educators, teachers and trainers who are ready to deal with human rights education with children of 7-13 years. The book familiarises the reader with the key concepts of human rights and children's rights, and provides substantial theoretical background to 13 key human rights issues, such as democracy, citizenship, gender equality, environment, media, poverty, and violence.
Available in EN and FR.
DOmino
DOmino tries to give some assistance to those working or planning to work with young people on peer group education projects. The different sections of DOmino contain some theoretical background on peer group education as well as different project descriptions, methods, quotes and stories from young people.
DOmino is the result of different youth work practices in several European countries, both in the formal and informal educational sector. The editors have drawn from experiences in youth organisations, youth initiatives and schools.
Available in EN and FR.
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
Education Pack
This Education Pack contains ideas, resources, methods and activities for informal intercultural education with young people and adults.
Available in EN and FR.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
You can find more resources and information in the EYF page about non-formal education
Manual for facilitators in non-formal education
The manual provides essential information and practical tips for all who are involved in planning and delivering non-formal education intercultural activities on an occasional basis.
This manual is part of the endeavour of the Council of Europe's youth sector to support and develop the quality of non-formal education activities across Europe and, in doing so, contribute to further their recognition.
Available in EN and FR.
The Council of Europe and young people: Non Formal Education
This 19-page publication of the Council of Europe explains how the organisation spearheaded the development of non-formal education, even before the term itself was coined in the 1990s. It explains the methodology and philosophy of non-formal education, how NFE has been recognized through the years and validated. It gives also some definition to explain the difference between non-formal, formal and informal learning, as well as a list of publications about this subject.
PARTICIPATION
Revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life - Have Your Say!
Available EN and FR.
Have Your Say!
Participation is a fundamental human right recognised, among others, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Participation is also a core principle of human rights and is a condition for effective democratic citizenship for all people.
The manual “Have your say!” was produced to support local and regional authorities, youth organisations and young people who want to give young people a real say for a meaningful democratic youth participation.
Available EN and FR.
ROMA
Barabaripen - Young Roma speak about discrimination
An awareness-raising and educational tool on the topic of multiple discrimination. It includes life stories of nine young Roma affected by multiple discrimination across Europe; analysis of the mechanism of discrimination and strategies of young people use in order to tack it; educational activities with young people using the life stored and background material.
Available in EN.
Mirrors 
This manual was produced within the Roma Youth Action Plan of the Council of Europe to provide teachers, trainers and facilitators of non-formal education processes with essential information and methodological tools to address antigypsyism with young people of all ages and in any social-cultural setting. It is equally suitable for work with groups of non-Roma, Roma only, or mixed groups.
Combating antigypsyism is a task for all of us; learning about it is a necessary starting point.
Available in EN and FR.
Right to remember 
Right to Remember is a self-contained educational resource for all those wishing to promote a deeper awareness of the Roma Genocide and combat discrimination. The handbook is based on the principles of human rights education, and places remembrance as an aspect of learning about, through and for human rights.
Right to Remember includes educational activities, as well as ideas for commemoration events, and information about the Genocide and its relevance to the situation of the Roma people today. It has been designed primarily for youth workers in non-formal settings, but it will be useful for anyone working in education, including in schools.
Available in EN.
SOCIAL INCLUSION
STEP-by-STEP together
Support, Tips, Examples and Possibilities for youth work with young refugees
This publication offers practical tools for youth work on the inclusion and participation of young refugees at local level. It focuses on youth participation and inclusion as key dimensions to build inclusive societies and, at the same time, to create an enabling environment for young refugees to be fully fledged actors of their personal and community development. It tackles the following themes: intercultural learning; access to social rights; young women refugees; youth participation and mental health and trauma.
Available in EN.
Between insecurity and hope.
Reflections on youth work with young refugees.
This Youth Knowledge book presents theoretical references and reflections on the experiences of young refugees and the way they reconcile personal hope with the tensions within their host societies. It also explores learning from practices and their theoretical underpinnings concerning the role of youth work in a cross-sectoral approach. This book aims to be a reference for policy makers, practitioners and researchers in the youth field and stakeholders from other sectors working on inclusion, access to rights and the participation of young refugees.
Available in EN.
Raising young refugee's voices in Europe and beyond
The aim of this report is to convey the main points of a training seminar organised in close co-operation with the UNHCR bringing together young forcibly displaced persons and other young people working in their favour.
The organisers and participants of the seminar were driven by the strong conviction that all young people need to participate in building Europe, that social cohesion implies the inclusion of marginalised, minority youth and that nobody can talk about young refugees' needs and assets better than young refugees themselves.
Available in EN.
Social inclusion for young people: breaking down the barriers
This book presents key findings from a research seminar organised by the EU-CoE Youth Partnership on the theme of "Social inclusion and Young People" . The articles included give a picture of the forms of social exclusion affecting young people nowadays and provide evidence of the progress of strategies to promote social inclusion.
Available in EN.
SOCIAL RIGHTS
Taking it seriously
Guide to Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights
Available in EN and FR.
TRAINING KITS
Training Kits 
The training kits are thematic publications written by experienced youth trainers. They are easy-to-use handbooks for use in training and study sessions. T-Kits are produced in English. Some of them are also available in French or German.
- T-kit 1: Organisational Management
- T-kit 2: Methodology in Language Learning
- T-Kit 3: Project Management
- T-Kit 4: Intercultural Learning
- T-kit 5: International Voluntary Services
- T-kit 6: Training Essentials
- T-kit 7: Under Construction... Citizenship, Youth and Europe
- T-kit 8: Social Inclusion
- T-kit 9: Funding and Financial Management
- T-kit 10: Educational Evaluation in Youth Work
- T-kit 11: Mosaic - The Training Kit for Euro-Mediterranean Youth Work
- T-kit 12: Youth Transforming Conflict
- T-kit 13: Sustainability and youth work
OTHER
Cookbook 
In 2006 and 2007, the EYF supported 365 projects under the "All different, all equal" slogan. This publication contains some examples of the projects supported.
Available in EN.
Companion 
This guide has been produced under the Council of Europe's Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights, and Participation "All Different- All Equal".
Racism, social exclusion, disempowered minorities and deficient participation are problems that can neither be solved overnight, nor by singular efforts. These problems need sustained, long-term attention. Education plays a key role in these pursuits and therefore needs to be at the centre of this campaign. This guide is intended to support campaigners, activists and educators to advocate and educate to reach these goals.
Available in EN and FR.
Don't judge a book by its cover! The living library organiser's guide
The Books in the Living Library are people representing groups frequently confronted with prejudices and stereotypes, and who are often victims of discrimination or social exclusion. In this library, Books cannot only speak, but they are able to reply to the readers' questions, and the Books can even ask questions and learn themselves.
The Living Library methodology is part of the Council of Europe's youth programme on human rights education.
Available in EN, FR, DE, HU.
Perspectives on Youth 
Perspectives on youth is a new series published by the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth with the support of five countries – Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom – and the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Its purpose is to bring national youth policies closer together and to keep the largely European dialogue about key problems of national and supranational child and youth policy on a solid foundation in terms of content, expertise and politics. The series aims to act as a forum for information, discussion, reflection and dialogue on European developments in the field of youth policy, youth research and youth work.
Available in EN.
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