On 9 June 2024, the first meeting of the Group of Senior Officials launched the preparation of the 10^th Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth which will take place from 8 to 9 October 2025 in Malta under the Maltese Presidency. The Group was established by the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) which is the body responsible for the preparation of the Conference, to ensure firstly the successful planning, organisation, and execution of the 10th Ministerial Conference on Youth, aligning with the terms of reference and objectives of the CDEJ and the inherent features of the co-management system. Senior officials from a dozen member States will ensure that the Conference reinvigorates, at the highest political level, the development, updating and scaling of youth policies. The conference will identify priorities of member States, and guide the Council of Europe's youth policy field for the coming years. Following the Reykjavik Declaration, adopted at 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government (16-17 May 2023) the integration of a youth perspective in the work of the Council of Europe and at the level of member States is a key task. It requires a direct and concrete response to initiating solutions to challenges that particularly affect young people today including armed conflicts, climate change, the backsliding of democracy, and limitations to their access to social and economic rights. The next meeting of the Group will take place on 16 September 2024.