Monday, 6 October 2025

 

  • Arrival of participants
  • 14:00 - 19:00 Registration
  • 19:00 Dinner and welcome activities

 Tuesday, 7 October 2025

 

  • 9:15 Opening of the Youth Event, with: 
     
    • Keith AZZOPARDI TANTI, Parliamentary Secretary, for Youth, Research and Innovation, Malta
    • Cherise SULTANA, President, National Youth Council, Malta
    • Maurizio CUTTIN, Vice-chair, Advisory Council on Youth
       
  • 9:40 Introduction to youth event objectives, programme, methodology, getting to know each other
  • 10:30 The road to Malta: 10th Conference of Ministers, its outcomes and youth perspectives, with:
    • Miriam TEUMA, Chair, European Steering Committee on Youth
    • Noah KRAMER, Chair of Programming Committee on Youth, Advisory Council on Youth
    • Andreea SCRIOȘTEANU, Vice-President, European Youth Forum
       
  • 11:00 Break
     
  • 11:30 Strengthening young people’s role in democratic revival and the protection of human rights – the New Democratic Pact for Europe and the 10th Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth, with:
     
    • Matjaž GRUDEN, Director for Democracy, Council of Europe
  • 12:15 Introduction to working groups on youth perspectives for a New Democratic Pact for Europe
    • 1. Learning and practicing democracy
      Arno SCHROOYEN, facilitator; Maria-Nadia TISMĂNARU, rapporteur.
    • 2. Protecting democracy
      Anna KNOBBOUT, facilitator; Eva KOTNIK, rapporteur.
    • 3. Innovating democracy
      Riika PASANEN, facilitator; Emili KHACHATRYAN, rapporteur.
    • 4. Creating a shared narrative about democracy
      Agnes GKOUTZIAMANI, facilitator; Stanislava STEFANOVA, rapporteur.
       
  • 13:00 Lunch
     
  • 14:30 Working groups continued
     
  • 16:00 Break
     
  • 16:30 Presentations of the results of the working groups
     
  • 18:00 Departure for dinner by bus
     
  • 19:00 Dinner reception hosted by the Maltese authorities for participants in the youth event and in the 1539th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Mdina, Malta)
     
  • 22:30 Departure to Grand Hotel Excelsior by bus

 Wednesday, 8 October 2025

 

  • 9:00 Strengthening a youth perspective in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), with
    • Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS, President of the PACE
    • Despina CHATZIVASSILIOU, Secretary General of the PACE
       
  • 9:40 Reviewing the proposals for the New Democratic Pact for Europe
     
  • 11:00 Break
     
  • 11:30 Youth advocacy and engagement for democracy: the 10th Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth and its follow-up
     
  • 13:00 Lunch
     
  • 14:30 Youth proposals for the New Democratic Pact for Europe, exchange of views with:
    • Alain BERSET, Secretary General, Council of Europe
    • Francesca CAMILLERI VETTIGER, President of the Ministers’ Deputies and Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe
       
  • 16:00 Break
  • 16:20 Coffee talks, with:
    • Naomi CACHIA, PACE, youth rapporteur, Committee in Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)
    • Max LUCKS, PACE, youth rapporteur, Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy
    • Véronique BERTHOLLE, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, thematic
      spokesperson on youth
       
  • 17:30 Conclusions and closing of the youth event, with:
    • Rareș VOICU, President, European Youth Forum
    • Nina GRMUŠA, Chair, Advisory Council on Youth
    • Tobias FLESSENKEMPER, Head of the Youth Department
       
  • 18:20 Departure for dinner
     
  • 19:00 10th Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth: dinner reception hosted by the Maltese authorities, Grandmaster’s Palace, Valletta.

        

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