News 2024
Decision on a new grant for pilot activity in the special call in support of young people from Ukraine
In December 2024, the Programming Committee on Youth approved one more project under the EYF special call in support of young people from Ukraine. The project "Special call Ukraine - United in action" is about the professional empowerment and social integration of Ukrainian youth workers...
Season's greetings and winter closure
The Council of Europe will be closed from 24 December 2024 midday to 2 January 2025 included. The EYF will be closed in the same period. We will not respond through the EYF helpdesk (the Comments section in the online granting system) in this period. All comments will be swiftly answered as of 3...
Programming Committee on Youth approves key activities and EYF grants for 2025
The 52nd meeting of the Programming Committee on Youth (CPJ) was held on 12–13 December 2024 at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg. At the meeting, the Committee approved the programme of activities for the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg and Budapest for 2025. The Committee also made...
Decision on new grants for pilot activities in the special call in support of young people from Ukraine
In December 2024, the Programming Committee on Youth approved three more projects under the EYF special call in support of young people from Ukraine. The project "Special call Ukraine - Get ready for peace!" comprises of an eight-day training on youth participation, democracy and European...
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Training Course on Quality Essentials of International Youth Activities
The aim of the training course is to increase the capacities of international youth organisations and networks to carry out quality intercultural youth activities which apply principles of non-formal education and have a multiplying effect for their members, and to enable young people to actively...
Join us: information session for youth organisations about pilot activity grants
On 18 December 2024, from 10.30 to 12.00 CET, the European Youth Foundation will organise an online information session about its pilot activity grants in 2025. The participation in the online meeting is open for youth organisations. Please register in advance until 16 December 2024 at the...
Financial reports of EYF grants to be submitted by email
In November 2024, the EYF has modified its policy as to how the beneficiary NGOs are supposed to submit their financial reports. The beneficiary NGO must submit its narrative report and update the budget in the EYF online system and send the financial report and all related documents by email to...
Increase for structural grants for international youth organisations and networks to further promote Council of Europe values and practices
The Council of Europe reaffirmed the importance of civil society within the process of enhancing democracy and human rights in the final declaration of the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe, held in May 2023. The Summit also decided to introduce the concept of...
Information session for Roma youth organisations about EYF grants
The European Youth Foundation will organise an online information session for Roma youth organisations about its funding opportunities, especially its pilot activity grants. The information session is organised in co-operation with the Roma and Travellers Division of the Council of Europe. This...
European Youth Foundation - annual report 2023
The annual report 2023 of the European Youth Foundation is now public. The annual report provides an overview of the grants and supporting activities of the EYF in 2023. Readers will have quantitative and qualitative information about the types of projects that were supported, the volume of...
Campaign closing: Youth sparks change
The “Youth sparks change” campaign is coming to an end. For the last 6 months, we have celebrated young people, their organisations and their amazing projects, for democracy and human rights, at the occasion of the Council of Europe’s 75th anniversary. The European Youth Foundation has since its...
Pilot activity grants: 2025 focus themes and upcoming deadlines
Youth organisations can now apply for pilot activity grants to the European Youth Foundation for initiatives to be carried out in 2025. The following focus themes for pilot activity grants were approved by Joint Council on Youth within the youth sector priorities: Human rights education with and...
Decisions of the Joint Council on Youth about the EYF reform and grants
The leading co-managed youth policy making body at European level, the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ), heldits 51st meeting in the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg on 21-23 October 2024. The CMJ brings together representatives from the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and the...
Co-funding waived for international activity supported within the EYF special call in support of young people from Ukraine
On 23 October 2024, the Joint Council on Youth, the co-managed decision-making body of the youth sector of the Council of Europe, has decided to reinforce the Council of Europe support to young people from Ukraine and to international youth co-operation activities therein. As such, starting from...
Decision on a new grant for a pilot activity in the special call in support of young people from Ukraine
In October 2024, the Programming Committee on Youth approved one more project under the EYF special call in support of young people from Ukraine. This is a pilot activity to be organised by the NGO “Development and Initiative” in Dnipro, Ukraine. The project is called “Bridges to Europe” and...
Additional 7 projects approved under the pilot activity grants' scheme
Following the decision of the Programming Committee on Youth regarding the pilot activity grants concerning applications received at the deadline of 15 May 2024, additional 7 projects were approved thanks to the savings from the budget. In total, 32 projects received funding at the deadline of 15...
Update on financial and administrative process for EYF grants
As part of its financial and administrative simplification process, the EYF has updated and simplified the following templates for applicants to use: The model budget to be used for annual work plans applications has been updated and simplified. For each activity, applicants will only need to...
New project funded under the Special call in support of young people from Ukraine
In September 2024, the Programming Committee on Youth approved one more project under the EYF special call in support of young people from Ukraine. The international activity will focus on the enhancement of NGO management skills (HR, finances, project management, etc.) for young people from...
Updating the European Youth Foundation’s work after Reykjavik
The Consultative meeting on the reform of the EYF’s grants was held on 11-12 September in Strasbourg and it gathered more than 50 participants – representatives of member states, international, local and national youth organisations, donor community, youth researchers and the Council of Europe....
Molodvizh 2024: resources and grants of the European Youth Foundation
On 7 September 2024, more than 200 young people from different regions of Ukraine took part in the All-Ukrainian Youth Forum "Molodvizh", held in the city of Lviv - European Youth Capital 2025. The Forum was organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine, the Department of Youth and...