The seminar "Supporting Young Refugees: The Next Chapter"  to be held in Strasbourg on 19-20 June 2025 builds on the discussions held during the seminar in June 2024 and will consist of plenary sessions, working groups, and opportunities for participants to share their experiences with one another.
 

The preliminary findings of the review process of the Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)4: Supporting young refugees in transition to adulthood will be presented and discussed.

It will also serve as a moment to reflect on the status of the implementation of the Recommendation, five years after its adoption.

The seminar will also be an occasion to mark World Refugee Day together with participants of the seminar.
 

 Aim

• To collect experiences in the implementation of the guidelines of the Recommendation on Supporting Young Refugees in Transition to Adulthood and share current challenges faced by practitioners and young people themselves.
• To discuss, analyse and validate the preliminary findings of the desk research commissioned by the Council of Europe to review the Recommendation especially in view to its added value.
• To make proposals of actions/measures to further support the rights of young refugees in transition to adulthood through youth policy actors, refugees and human rights organisations in the next 5 years period (2025 – 2030).
• To raise awareness about the plight of young people affected by migration and refugee policies on the World Refugee Day (20 June)
• To reinforce cooperation and support among youth-, migrant- and refugee-led organisations and support the inclusion of a youth perspective in migration and refugee-related policies and programmes which affect their transition into adulthood.
   

 Profile of participants

The participants of the seminar will be practitioners, experts or youth workers who work to ensure a safe transition into adulthood of young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and those who transition into undocumented adulthood, in a variety of projects and institutions. All participants are also expected to be:

• resident in one of the state parties to the European Cultural Convention (exceptions can be made if justified).
• committed to uphold and advocate for the rights of young migrants and refugees;
• be knowledgeable and motivated to share practices with other actors in the field.
• be under 30 years of age (for youth leaders only - exceptions can be made in justified cases).
• able to work autonomously in English.
• affiliated with a relevant youth organisation, youth centre, NGO or public institution.

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