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Back Delegation of the Council of Europe visited the Youth Centre in Bucha

On 28 February 2024, at the invitation of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, Tobias Flessenkemper, Head of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, and Maciej Janczak, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine, visited the Plast Training Centre in Bucha (Kyiv region).

The centre's team introduced the delegation to the activities of the Plast Training Centre, key areas of work, mechanisms of interaction with youth and the special role of the Centre in working with young people after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in the Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

An important moment of the visit was a visit to the sites of destruction of residential infrastructure and destroyed cars during the occupation of 2022 in Irpin. According to the Kyiv School of Economic, during the occupation of Irpin, almost half of the total amount of buildings in the city were damaged — 10,500 buildings, of which 2,501 were completely or severely destroyed.

The Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III” is implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2023-2026 and is based on the results and experience of the projects “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” in 2020-2022. The project will expand the systematic impact by strengthening youth participation policies and youth work during the war and in the post-war context, taking into account the specific needs of young people.

The project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" emphasizes the importance of the Council of Europe's Youth Sector Strategy until 2030 and reflects the National Strategy of State Youth Policy until 2030, the State Targeted Social Program "Youth of Ukraine" 2021-2025.

The project encourages youth policy stakeholders in Ukraine to implement and disseminate the Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to Member States: on the access of youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights, CM/Rec(2015)3; on young people's access to rights, CM/Rec(2016)7; on youth work, CM/Rec(2017)4; on Roma youth participation CM/Rec(2023)4; on protecting youth civil society and young people, and supporting their participation in democratic processes CM/Rec(2022)6.