Speaking with policy makers allows us to have more trust in government, to make sure that the future is being taken into account now as a priority for young people.

Aisling Comiskey

Pilot Youth Forum on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

6 June 2023 | Strasbourg, France

The Council of Europe will be also further promoting  and supporting actively the integration of a youth perspective in its member states where good practices and existing challenges will be analysed before offering possible tools and guidance. 

The Youth Perspective as:

  • an Attitude – Think with Youth;
  • an Experience – Learn from and with Youth;
  • a Skill – Participate with Youth;
  • an Action – Act with and for Youth.

The Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) established a Working Group on the implementation of the integration of a youth perspective in the Council of Europe to prepare a Council of Europe reference framework on the youth perspective, which could include a policy document, methodological guidelines and an action plan for the integration of a youth perspective into the work of the Council of Europe and in member States.  The Group will also provide all the necessary support for the implementation of a youth perspective within the Council of Europe.

As a first step, the Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) adopted the document on Elements for a Council of Europe reference framework for a youth perspective, at its 50th plenary meeting (24-25 October 2023).