Connecting the EU with youth - launch of EU Youth Stakeholders Group
Ultima actualizare Joi, 03/04/2025
On 27-28 March 2025, the European Commission launched the EU Youth Stakeholders Group, as legacy of the 2022 European Year of Youth in a meeting in Brussels.
- This network will help connect the EU with young people and youth civil society.
- It will help the European Commission have a better understanding of the needs and concerns of young people.
- It will strengthen young people’s role in EU policymaking.
The meeting was moderated by the EU Youth Coordinator and attended by 92 members of the EU Youth Stakeholders Group (EU and member states’ representatives, national youth councils, European youth organisations and stakeholders).
The event was opened by Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture and closed by Glenn Micallef, Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport.
The European Commission Youth team gave updates on key youth policy initiatives, including the youth policy dialogues with Commissioners, the strengthening of the EU Youth Dialogue, the Commission youth check and the 2024 EU Youth Report.
The participants learned about new and upcoming Commission initiatives (the Union of Skills and the Action Plan on Basic Skills, the Democracy Shied initiative) and were reminded of the youth offer of the European Parliament.
The members of the Group exchanged good practices linked to three topics: youth structures and youth participation, youth cross-sector cooperation and mainstreaming instruments and skills and non-formal learning in EU youth programmes.
They got to contribute to the development of the new Strategy for Intergenerational Fairness and future EU Youth Strategy.
Check the report, presentations and a collection of good practices from this first meeting.