About 300 participants — including youth leaders, youth workers and youth policy makers actors from both Eastern Partnership (EaP) and 33 European countries involved in the EU Erasmus+ Programme Erasmus+ — will meet and discuss participation and active citizenship of young people and their involvement in the decision-making process during a two-day event in Warsaw on 22-23 June 2017.
The planned Eastern Partnership Youth Forum will be the third conference dedicated to issues which matter young people, organized in the margins of the Eastern Partnership Summit.
The main objectives of the 3rd EaP Youth Forum are:
- To deepen the dialogue and advance cooperation on youth matters and education between the EU and EaP countries by sharing expertise and experience as well as providing a space for networking and cooperation in the future, including in local and transnational projects;
- To identify and discuss common challenges and propose concrete actions, which would help to address those challenges;
- To feed the 5th Eastern Partnership Summit Declaration to be signed in November 2017 in Brussels/Belgium;
- To inform the EU youth policy development post 2018, along with national youth policies in the countries involved.
There is no participation fee for the Forum. All costs (accommodation, travel, visa, etc.) relevant to participation in the course will be covered.