A consultative meeting about the developments in generative AI and their impact on young people’s human rights, youth work and youth policy in the context of Council of Europe standards and approaches.
22-23 January 2025
European Youth Centre, Strasbourg, France
Aim and objectives
The consultative meeting will bring together experts and practitioners in youth policy and AI matters, including youth work and human rights education practitioners, with the aim to develop a shared understand of the impact of AI on young people’s rights and propose measures about ways to address them through youth policy and youth work.
Specifically, the meeting is expected to:
- Explore and review the potential benefits and risks of AI on young people and the ecosystem of youth work and youth policy in Europe;
- Identify principles and guidelines to address those risks through youth policy and youth work and to ensure that AI benefits are accessible and relevant to all young people within the principles of the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law;
- Proposals measures and instruments to reflect those principles and guidelines in policy and standard-setting documents (e.g. policy guidelines and recommendations) as well as in programme orientations for the Youth Department, including the education and training programme of the European Youth Centre and the European Youth Foundation.
Participants
The consultative meeting will bring together some 20 experts and practitioners, representing the main stakeholders involved in Artificial Intelligence, youth policy and youth work in the Council of Europe, including:
- Members of the Advisory Council on Youth and of the Euroepan Steerting Committee for Youth;
- Youth organisations and other civil society actors;
- Researchers and experts on Artificial Intelligence and young people;
- Other Council of Europe sectors active in Artificial Intelligence and concerned by the scope of the Consultative Meeting.
Concept note and call for participants
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2024, 23:59 CET
