27-29/05/2020 - Gender Equality & You Forum 2020 (Belgium - FL)

Conference – Symposium - Forum
27-29 May 2020 | Brussels, Belgium - FL

The overall aim of this forum is to raise awareness for gender equality and to make young people’s voices heard in the European discourse. The starting point will be the results of the Austrian Presidency Conference “Gender Equality & YOU” in 2018, the Youth Goal #2 as well as the European Commission’s upcoming Gender Equality Strategy (expected for March 2020).

Aims & Objectives
• To open a dialogue between young people and European stakeholders on Gender Equality
• To raise awareness of the new EU Gender Equality Strategy and collect young people’s perspectives
• To create links between the EU Gender Equality Strategy and young people’s realities and explore young people’s possible contributions
• To follow up on the outcomes of the 2018 Gender Equality & YOU conference and link them and Youth Goal 2 to the current strategy
• To raise awareness of Gender Equality as an important issue for young people and the importance of including young people’s voices in the Gender Equality discourse