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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 4 May 2025, 23:59 CET
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Supporting Young Refugees: The Next Chapter
Seminar on Reviewing and Reinforcing the Implementation of the Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)4 on Supporting Young Refugees in Transition to Adulthood - On the occasion of the World Refugee Day - The seminar "Supporting Young Refugees: The Next Chapter" to be held in Strasbourg on 19-20 June...
Deadline for applications: Sunday 13 April 2025, 23:59 CET
YOUTH PEACE CAMP 2025 – Call for participants
The Youth Peace Camp is the flagship activity of the Council of Europe youth sector on promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies. The Youth Peace Camp project was born in 2003 in the framework the programme of the Council of Europe’s confidence-building measures and has been providing a...
Writing for Peace Education in Youth Work
The Joint Council on Youth has entrusted a group of experts with the drafting of a Committee of Ministers recommendation addressed to governments of member states on peace education in non-formal education and youth work. The group met at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg on 11 and 12...
Young people want a role in advancing ethical AI, bridging cultural divides, and addressing key global issues
The 8th Arab-European Youth Forum, co-organised by the Council of Europe and the League of Arab States, was held between 14 and 19 October 2024 at the International Youth City in Luxor, Egypt. The forum – focussed on ‘Intercultural Dialogue in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ – brought...
Young people and policy makers discuss democracy and the climate crisis in Strasbourg
The Council of Europe has long recognised the importance of a healthy environment as a basic human right. It has adopted several texts that demand a shift in policies, to ensure that a healthy environment is recognised as a basic human right. These initiatives highlight the Council of Europe’s...
Youth for human rights education in Luxembourg
The Compass national training course “Promoting human rights education in Luxembourg 2024” brought together 20 youth workers, human rights activists, teachers and students at the Marienthal Quality Labelled Youth Centre. Held from 9 to 13 September, the course was initiated by ALDIC - The...
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 6 October 2024 23:59 CET
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Training course “Peace Education and Conflict Transformation with Young People”
The Youth Department is organising a training course for educators, activists, youth workers and other multipliers working who want to develop their competence for facilitating peace education and conflict transformation using non-formal education approaches in the context of the work they do...
Rights in Our Languages: Compass training course in Greece
From 2 to 6 September, 25 educators, youth workers, and social workers from across Greece gathered at the ELIX Multispace in Athens to improve their competences for education for democratic citizenship and human rights education with young people. The programme of the national training course...
Roma Youth Combating Antigypsyism: Training Course in North Macedonia
Roma youth leaders, youth workers, human rights activists, and members of civil society organisations across North Macedonia gathered in Mavrovo for a training course “Roma Youth Combating Antigypsyism” from 24 to 27 July 2024. The training course was organised by the Institute for research and...
Compass for formal and non-formal education: training course in Ukraine
Youth workers, teachers, and educators from all regions of Ukraine are participating in a national training course on human rights education from 21 to 25 July 2024 in Lviv, the European Youth Capital of 2025. This Compass national training course is organised by the Centre for Educational...
Dialogue for peacebuilding in action!
On July 2-9, 2024, the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg is hosting the Youth Peace Camp, a transformative event that brings together 80 young participants from regions deeply affected by conflicts, including Cyprus (Greek speaking Cypriots and Turkish speaking Cypriots), Bosnia and...
Dialogue for peacebuilding in action!
On July 2-9, 2024, the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg is hosting the Youth Peace Camp, a transformative event that brings together 80 young participants from regions deeply affected by conflicts, including Cyprus (Greek speaking Cypriots and Turkish speaking Cypriots), Bosnia and...
Call for consultant(s) - feasibility study about a Recommendation on peace education in non-formal learning and youth work
The Youth Department of the Council of Europe is now looking for consultant(s) (individuals or consortia) to carry out a feasibility study about a Recommendation on peace education in non-formal learning and youth work. The study should address the following questions by priority: Why would such...
Deadline for applying: 24 July 2024
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: 8TH Arab-European Youth Forum - Youth and Intercultural Dialogue in times of Artificial Intelligence
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 24 July 2024, 23:59 CET
Call for participants: 8th Arab-European Youth Forum - Youth and Intercultural Dialogue in times of Artificial Intelligence
In cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Egypt, the 2024 Arab-European Youth Forum is organised with a view to reset and re-launch the cooperation between young people and youth movements affiliated to the two organisations. The forum will be a unique space and moment for dialogue...
YOUNG REFUGEES: WHAT CONFIDENCE AT 18?
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe is hosting the seminar Supporting confidence at 18 at the European Youth Centre Budapest. The seminar focuses on the struggles of young refugees, including unaccompanied minors, in exercising their most basic...
YOUNG REFUGEES: WHAT CONFIDENCE AT 18?
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe is hosting the seminar Supporting confidence at 18 at the European Youth Centre Budapest. The seminar focuses on the struggles of young refugees, including unaccompanied minors, in exercising their most basic...
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 MAY 2024
CALL FOR EXPERTS - consultative meeting on the accessibility of the European Youth Centres and the activities of the youth programme
The Youth Department of the Council of Europe is launching a call for experts to participate in a consultative meeting on improving the accessibility of the European Youth Centres and the activities of the youth programme of the Council of Europe on 19-21 June in Strasbourg (EYCS). The...
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 MAY 2024, 23:59 CEST
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: SUPPORTING CONFIDENCE AT 18
A seminar on sharing practices of projects and initiatives in support of Young Refugees and Migrants in transition to adulthood
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 May 2024, 23:59 CEST
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: SUPPORTING CONFIDENCE AT 18
A seminar on sharing practices of projects and initiatives in support of Young Refugees and Migrants in transition to adulthood - On the occasion of the World Refugee Day - The seminar SUPPORTING CONFIDENCE AT 18 aims at reassessing the current needs and situations faced by young refugees...