9-11 December 2025
European Youth Centre Budapest
The Council of Europe Youth Department and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with their non-governmental partners including the European Youth Forum and Amnesty International, are proud to announce the co-organisation of a forum to critically review the status, achievements and challenges of human rights education for, with and by youth, as conceptualised and practiced by them and their partners.
This forum will provide the opportunity for the community of human rights educators to gather, share, reflect and nurture human rights education practice for the upcoming years, underlining cooperative dialogue between international, national and local partners, whether professionals or volunteers from the formal or non-formal education sectors, whether governmental institutions or non-governmental organisations.
The Forum is co-organised by the Council of Europe (Youth Department, Education Department and the North South Centre), and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in cooperation with the European Youth Forum and Amnesty International. The Forum is also supported by the European Wergeland Centre, the Global Campus on Human Rights, Kandersteg International Scout Centre and Soka Gakkai International. It is led and prepared by a Steering Group that includes representatives of the Advisory Council on Youth, the European Steering Committee for Youth and experts from a variety of specialised youth and human rights organisations.
Participants
The Forum will bring together approximately 250 participants, of which 50 are from world regions beyond Europe. The participants should correspond to the following profiles:
- Young multipliers, activists and advocates for human rights education.
- Education professionals from both the formal and non-formal sectors.
- Representatives of governmental and public institutions responsible for Education and for Youth policies.
- Young people and youth leaders of initiatives and projects of civil society organisations for citizenship and human rights education, including projects supported by the European Youth Foundation.
- Partners of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme, such as organisers of Compass training courses, publishers of Compass and Compasito in national languages.
- Representatives of international and regional organisations active in human rights education.
- Human rights activists and representatives of national human rights institutions active in promoting the right to human rights education.
Call for participants document
Deadline for applications: 12 September 2025 (23:59 CET)
For more detailed infomation visit the Forum webpage .
