CDEJ and CMJ news
Joint Council on Youth agrees on recommendation on young people and climate action
At its 50th meeting, on the 9-10 April at the European Youth Centre in Budapest, the CMJ agreed on a draft recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on young people and climate action. The recommendation will next be presented to the Committee of Ministers rapporteur group on...
Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) 50th meeting in Budapest
The 50th meeting of the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ), which brings together representatives from the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ), takes place in the European Youth Centre Budapest on 9-10 April 2024. A broad range of issues concerning young...
Think Rural Youth ! The preparatory work of a recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to put rural youth on the agenda of member states continues
On 14-15 February, the group responsible for preparing a Committee of Ministers recommendation on Rural Youth met in an enlarged format in Strasbourg. This group includes members from the youth statutory bodies - namely the European Steering Committee for Youth and the Advisory Council on Youth –...
5-6 February 2024
Joint meetings of the CDEJ and CCJ Bureaux
The representatives of the Bureaux of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ) and the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) met at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg on 5 and 6 February 2024. This meeting followed the joint meeting of the Presidents of the Intergovernmental Committees and...
Focus on youth rights and follow-up to the 4th Council of Europe Summit
Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) 49th meeting in Strasbourg
The 49th meeting of the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ), which brought together representatives from the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ), will take place in the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg on 24-25 October 2023. A broad range of issues...
Think Rural Youth ! Working on a recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to put rural youth on the agenda of member states
On 9 and 10 October, the group responsible for preparing a Committee of Ministers recommendation on Rural Youth met in an enlarged format in Strasbourg. In addition to members from the youth statutory bodies - namely the European Steering Committee for Youth and the Advisory Council on Youth - ...
The 2023 Edition of the European University on youth policies took place in Riga, Latvia
The European University on youth policies (known also as the «Summer University») took place in Riga, Latvia, on 28-30 June 2023 in the framework of the current Latvian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. The University is part of the Council of Europe’s package of...
Joint meeting of the CDEJ and CCJ Bureaux
On 5 and 6 June 2023, the CDEJ and CCJ Bureaux held their joint meeting in the European Youth Centre in Budapest. Their deliberations centred around three important issues for the youth sector in the upcoming months, indeed years: the conclusions of the 4th Summit; the programme, budget and terms...
YOUTH PARTICIPATION 2.0
Experts on youth participation meet to draft the Joint Council on Youth’s guidelines on young people's participation
The European Youth Centre in Strasbourg hosted a meeting of the drafting group for the CMJ guidelines on young people's participation on May 25-26, 2023. The guidelines focus on two documents: Congress Resolution 152 (2003) on the revised European Charter on the Participation of Young People in...
Review Seminar on Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)4 on Youth Work
The two-day review seminar that took place from 3-4 April 2023 brought together 20 participants, representatives of ministries as well as civil society. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss the implementation of the Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)4 on Youth Work in member states and the visions...
The Advisory Council on Youth addresses the Committee of Ministers’ 4th summit working group
On 24 February, Alice Bergholtz, vice-chair of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ), the non-governmental partner in the youth sector’s co-managed decision-making system, addressed the GT-SOM, the Committee of Ministers’ ad hoc working group set up to organise the 4th Summit of Heads of State and...
Review Seminar on the Recommendation CM/Rec (2017)4 on Youth Work
Call for Participants
In 2017, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)4 on Youth Work, the first internationally agreed policy document that focuses on youth work explicitly, its value for society and the way ahead for its quality development in Europe. The...
The Youth sector statutory committees’ Bureaux meet in Strasbourg
The Bureaux of the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ) held their first meetings of the year in the European Youth Centre Strasbourg on 16 and 17 January 2023. High on the agenda of their joint meeting, the Bureaux were informed about the...
Youth statutory meetings
Democracy campaign, Roma youth participation, Ukrainian youth, climate change, rural youth…
These are just some of the subjects discussed during the youth statutory meetings held in the European Youth Centre in Budapest from 10 to 12 October 2022. Buoyed by the conclusions of the high-level reflection group of the Council of Europe, which wholeheartedly agreed that “building sustainable...
The chairs of the youth sector statutory bodies in dialogue with the Council of Europe’s decision-makers
Miriam Teuma, chair of the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ), and Spyros Papadatos, chair of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ), travelled to the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg on 4 October to meet with the Organisation’s decision-making body and Secretary General. On the invitation...
Youth Policy advisory mission to Andorra
A youth policy advisory mission took place on 9-10 June in Andorra, with a view to helping the Government of Andorra, namely the Department of Childhood, Adolescence and Youth improve their national youth polices. To get a better understanding of the functioning of the youth sector in Andorra, a...
The European University on youth policies - 2022 edition - Malta
The European University on youth policies took place in Malta, St Venera, on 27-29 April 2022 The European University on youth policies took place in Malta, St Venera, on 27-29 April 2022. The University is part of the Council of Europe’s package of youth policy development measures and aims to...
The CMJ expresses its unwavering solidarity and support to Ukraine
At its 46th meeting (Strasbourg, 22-23 March 2022), the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) adopted a statement in which it expressed its unwavering solidarity and support to Ukraine. The Joint Council pledged to assist its Ukrainian partners in meeting present and future challenges by mobilising the...
The youth statutory committees set the road map for the new four-year programming period
The Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) met for the first time in the new four-year programming period on 22 and 23 March 2022. Meeting in hybrid format, this was the first time the members had been able to meet in person since October 2019. The statutory meetings were held at a sombre time, under the...
Bureaux of the Youth sector statutory committees meet online
The Bureaux of the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and of the Advisory Council on Youth (CCJ) held their first meetings of the year online on 20 and 21 January 2022. In their joint meeting, the newly recruited campaign co-ordinator for the 2022 youth campaign “Democracy Here....