Background
In January 2025, the Youth Department organised a consultative meeting “HOW CONFIDENT? - Artificial Intelligence, Young People and Youth Work” with the purpose to not only look at current challenges, but pave a way forward.
A key outcome of the meeting was hence the development of a Roadmap, grounded in a bottom-up approach that centred the voices of young people. This process captured their concerns, reflections, and concrete proposals, ensuring their perspectives were not only heard but will also be integrated into future policy directions.
The roadmap serves as a foundation for actionable policy recommendations, reflecting the collective input and aspirations of the participants of the consultative meeting. The Roadmap identifies six areas of action, of which capacity building for youth organisations is a key element.
About the training course
The training course for youth workers on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Democracy organised by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe is taking place at the European Youth Centre, Budapest, Hungary from 17 - 21 June 2025.
It will bring together youth workers and young people active in youth organisations, to reflect on the implications of artificial intelligence on youth work from the perspective of human rights and democracy.
The course will offer a space for reflection on the realities of youth work in an era of artificial intelligence, explore these through a human rights lens, and make concrete plans for the future.
Objectives
The course aims at strengthening the capacity of youth workers to act in a youth work landscape strongly affected by developments within artificial intelligence (AI), to understand these developments through a human rights lens, and to recognise their own role as stakeholders.
The initial objectives of the Training Course are:
- To explore the concepts and principles behind AI and related topics, and how it affects the daily life of young people;
- To create a common understanding of AI literacy, and for participants to reflect on the competences needed to act as multipliers;
- To reflect on contemporary AI developments that impact young people and youth organisations, and to critically reflect on these through a human rights lens;
- To strengthen participants capacity and autonomy in learning and imparting knowledge on AI literacy, in particular the connections with young people’s access to rights;
- To support youth organisations and youth work providers to respond to the needs and expectations of young people regarding AI, and to meaningfully contribute to AI governance processes and discussions;
- To map existing frameworks and stakeholders concerned with AI regulation in Europe, including Council of Europe, and suggest how these frameworks and connections can be applied and used in a youth work context.
Profile of participants
Participants of the training course are expected to be:
- Youth workers and youth leaders
- Multipliers and facilitators of youth activities
- Young people active in youth organisations, youth centres or institutions
Participants should be interested to learn and develop competences on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and youth work. It is expected that participants can act as multipliers within their youth work context following the training course. Previous expertise on artificial intelligence is not a requirement to attend the training.
All participants should also:
- Be resident in a country signatory of the European Cultural Convention
- Be aged between 18 and 30
- Be committed to attend for the full duration of the course
- Be able to work in English.
The Council of Europe welcomes applications from all candidates who fulfil the specific profile of the activities, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief or sexual orientation.
List of participants