The Council of Europe Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase II” has collected and described the experience and practices of youth work in the context of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in the period after 24 February 2022.

The collection includes twenty stories of experience and reflection, both team projects, initiatives of youth centres and non-governmental organizations etc., and individual experience directed at social, cultural, educational, environmental transformations implemented by, with and for young people.

The Council of Europe Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase II” together with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine has created the collection of experience and practice of youth work, based on the approaches and standards of the Council of Europe, in time of war for the purposes of recording, training and inspiration of youth workers in Ukraine and other member states of the Council of Europe.

Collection and description of the experience of youth work do not provide an assessment and do not claim representative nature and coverage of all the youth work in Ukraine in 2022. The experience and reflections are presented in the collection in the free order.

Each story in the collection is first presented with a brief overview, followed by a full interview about the experience, which describes in detail practices, considerations, resources, and approaches of the Council of Europe that have promoted the youth work, based on principles of human rights and youth participation.

The Collection is available in the Ukrainian language by the link.

The Project «Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III» is carried out in the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2023-2026 and was built on the results and experience of the projects “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” in 2020-2022. The Project will extend the systematic influence by strengthening participatory youth policies and reinforce youth work in the war and in a post war context, taking into account the specific needs of young people.