EU NEEDS YOU(TH): This was the EU Youth Conference in Ghent 2024

Data dell'ultima modifica Mercoledì, 27/03/2024

On 2-5 March 2024, the EU Youth Conference took place in Ghent, marking the implementation phase of the 10th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue. Find out what happened during the event as well as its main outcomes.

Ghent, the European Youth Capital of this year, hosted the EU Youth Conference in the beginning of March. Over 300 young people and ministerial delegates, coming from all over Europe including Ukraine, met in Ghent to talk about inclusive societies, the topic of the European Youth Goal #3.

Ghent marks the start of the implementation phase of the 10th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue. In this phase, the role of the national working groups is to make sure that the results from Ghent are communicated towards a broad audience, discussed in policy-making and implemented through policies, on the local, regional, national and European level.

Building on the results of the consultations involving over 28 000 young people, the participants of the EU Youth Conference in Ghent worked towards 2 outcomes: recommendations and implementing measures. 

The 6 recommendations cover the work of all the working groups and will be included in the Council Conclusions on social inclusion by the Belgian Presidency. These recommendations are made concrete and actionable through 36 implementing measures, developed by each of the working groups. The Belgian Presidency announced that they intend to include these measures in the annex of the Council Conclusions.

In September, the Hungarian Presidency organises the next EU Youth Conference in Budapest to discuss the final steps in realising European Youth Goal #3 through the 10th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue.