Youth mainstreaming
Youth mainstreaming is about integrating a youth perspective into the preparation, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policies and programmes that concern and affect young people.
How to include a youth perspective in EU policymaking?
The 2022 European Year of Youth set youth participation as a central priority of EU action in the field of youth and gave a voice to young people who expressed the need to include a youth perspective in all areas relevant to young people.
Introducing a ‘youth check’
A key outcome of the European Year of Youth is the introduction of a ‘youth check’, which will use existing Better Regulation and consultation tools to guarantee the youth dimension in all relevant policy areas.
There will be four key phases in a ‘youth check’:
1. Assessing youth relevance > 2. Youth consultation > 3. Impact assessment > 4. Scrutiny – the Regulatory Scrutiny Board
EU Youth coordinator
EU Youth stakeholder group
Resources:
Youth mainstreaming, youth impact assessment and youth checks - Publications Office of the EU
Communication on the European Year of Youth 2022.pdf
Eurobarometer ‘Youth and Democracy in the European Year of Youth’