The Youth Action Plan

The Youth Action Plan in EU External Action (2022-2027) is a new policy framework that promotes the engagement of young people as strategic partners, supporting their empowerment and participation to contribute to sustainable development, equality and peace.

The Youth Action Plan in EU External Action is guided by three pillars of action that will help shape the EU’s partnership with young people in partner countries:

1. partnership to engage: increasing young people’s voices in policy and decision-making;
2. partnership to empower: fighting inequalities and providing young people with the skills and tools they need to thrive;
3. partnership to connect: fostering opportunities for young people to network and exchange with their peers worldwide.

The Youth Action Plan is part of the EU institutions efforts to mark the European Year of Youth 2022 and its international dimension, shining a light on the important role of young people in building a better future – greener, more inclusive and digital.

Online Conference on Youth Participation

The Conference on Youth Participation will be informing about the new policy for promoting youth participation and empowerment in EU External Action.

When: Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00 CET – Wednesday 18 January 2023, 15:30 CET
Where: either online or in Brussels 
Languages: English, French, Spanish

The conference will:

• Present the Youth Action Plan in EU External Action: its purpose and principles, and the involvement of young people in its design.
• Explain the different pillars for action Engage – Empower – Connect, with lines of actions and main initiatives.
• Present some concrete initiatives of youth engagement:
  • The Youth Sounding Board for EU International Partnerships.
  • Youth advisory structures in EU Delegations, the example of the Youth Sounding Board in Nigeria.
  • Western Balkans Youth Lab Project, an example of how to provide opportunities for youth to participate in policy-making in their countries.

Register to the online conference, or attend the event on site.

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The conference will help strengthen a Europe-wide network of professionals working with youth on LGBTQI+ issues while presenting the main outcomes of the project. It is an open call for any individual or organisation interested in the Up4Diversity lines.

Up4Diversity Final Conference

Who? The conference will be particularly addressed to final stakeholders, professionals in the area of gender, LGBTIQ+ issues and youth, social agents and policy makers. The scientific community is also welcomed.

What? The project’s main outcomes and products will be presented, such as the training materials and workshops for youth professionals to foster upstander zero-violence educational environment.

How? Following a communicative orientation, this conference will include the voices of the participants, counting on LGBTIQ experts, youth professionals, volunteers, trainers and other social agents to talk about UP4Diversity contributions. The conference will be carried out in English, with the possibility of simultaneous translation to the official languages of the project on the main keynotes.

How To Participate

This conference will include a diversity of voices from both participants and end-users, counting on LGBTIQ experts, youth professionals, volunteers, trainers, members of national and European administrations, and other social agents to talk about Up4Diversity contributions and its impact.

To participate register here.

It is open to policymakers, educators, teachers, youth or LGBTIQ+ entities.

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Looking for organisations with a high interest in expanding to the youth sector and especially in the youth exchanges field.

The team of the EUROTUREC project (CSD-VI), with the support from National Agencies and of external experts from experienced NGOs will hold an online conference on April 6th 2022, from 1.30pm to 4.00pm CET (from 3.30pm to 6pm Turkish Time). The conference is addressed to organisations with none or limited experience in Erasmus+ Programme and will be the occasion to present the opportunities of this Programme for this type of Civil Society Organisations. The conference will have simultaneous translation from English to Turkish to foster the participation of Turkish Civil Society Organisations

Aim of the Conference

• connect interested organisations in Erasmus+ opportunities with specialists of the field that will openly share their experiences, good practices and challenges;
• interactive presentations of the main opportunities, their differences and specifications;
• opportunity of networking with organisations across Europe from the participating countries;
• Work in small groups to design new project ideas.

Schedule

How To Apply and Additional Information

Find out more about the Erasmus Plus KA1 opportunities!

Apply to save a spot for the conference. The application deadline is March 21st 2022. 

About EUROTUREC

“EUROTUREC” (ref num. CSD-VI/372) is supported by the EU Programme “Supporting Civil Society Dialogue Between EU and Turkey Grant Scheme (CSD-VI)”. The aim of the Program is to foster cooperation between the Turkish and European Civil Society.

EUROTUREC is the follow-up of GloCal Recognition (CSD-V/397) and it aims at fostering the recognition and establish long-term cooperation between Turkish and European CSOs.

The main concrete objectives are:

1- reinforce partnerships and create concrete support to foster cooperation opportunities between Turkish and European CSOs;

2- further development of certification-and-support tools for volunteers and CSOs’ staff;

3- train organisations’ key members in volunteers’ management, networking and project development;

4- increase the number of CSOs and of young people benefitting from the GloRe system and network;

5- reinforce the network internal governance fostering a sense of belonging and reliability;

6- boost the recognition of involved CSOs and the civil society ecosystem through activities of analysis, networking and dissemination.

About The GloRe Network

The GloRe Network is the umbrella organisation that overviews the correct usage of the platform and the memberships. Organisations need to become members of it to be able to use the certificate platform. For more information visit this page.

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Join us and get to know more about this call for proposals that provide an opportunity for civil society organisations and municipalities from an EU country and Turkey to work together under the framework of climate and environmental actions – the Town Twinning II grant scheme!

The team of the EUROTUREC project (ref. num. CSD-VI/372), with the support of Sinem İÇÖZ BÖLÜKBAŞI, the EU Affairs Expert of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will hold a conference not only to provide information about the call but also to create a space for networking between potential applicants!

The conference will take place online, on January 19th from 14:00 to 15:30 Turkish time (12-13:30 CEST), and it requires registration to attend – apply here until January 15th. There are only 15 places available and the selection will happen on a first-come, first-served basis.

You can expect an online space to clarify your doubts and interact with other participants!

The conference call will count on simultaneous interpretation between English and Turkish language.

Still not convinced? Check more info about Town Twinning II grant scheme

Why?

The main objectives of this call for proposals are to enhance dialogue and create sustainable structures between Turkish and EU local authorities and strengthen the capacity of local authorities for the purposes of climate and environment based actions.

Meaning, the proposed projects should mention at least one of the following priorities: 

1. Development of local plans, strategies, roadmaps and/or preparation of decision-making tools (modelling, impact and vulnerability analysis, etc.) with regard to climate change.
2. Enhancing the capacity of local authorities and enabling the exchange of adaptation know-how and experience among local authorities within Turkey and/or the EU for the creation and/or implementation of climate change adaptation technologies and systems.
3. Raising public awareness on climate and environment-related issues, particularly actions targeting children and youth.

To Whom?

Turkish Municipality or local authority in the EU Member States.

It is compulsory to have at least one non-state actor as a co-applicant as defined under Co-applicant-2, which is generally a Non-Profit Organisation. 

How Much Is Available?

Grant amount between 60.000 and 100.000 EUR, with up to 90% of EU funding. The budget can also cover salaries and external providers. 

Until when can you apply for the grant scheme?

The deadline for submission of the concept notes is March 1st 2022.

You can find more info about the call here.

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The conference takes place online on Facebook Live. The date is Wednesday 9th December 2020 at 3 pm (UTC+01 time) and lasts till 5 pm.

The initiative Introduction Day of “Step into solidarity” is part of the broader KA2-strategic partnership project “Living Solidarity Alliance”. The aim of the project is creating learning opportunities for youthworkers. Moreover it follows the purpose of designing together the intellectual outcomes in the form of researches, along with videos, podcast-series and guidebooks. The conference focuses especially on how to implement the Solidarity focus in the local Youthwork.

The schedule of the conference is:

1. Introduction:

• Getting to know each other
• Short Preview over the project and its main objective
• how to get involved

2. Map of Expertise:

• Presenting different dimensions of solidarity: youth policy, disability, refugees, rural areas
• share the different directions of possible solidarity actions
• meet in small groups the best practices and listing the areas of interest, finding common dimensions

3. Space for Developing Partnerships

• present and discuss different possibilities for NGOs/experts/individuals to contribute and join the project

4. Final discussion and Conclusions & next steps

Several organisations have already confirmed their participation. Among them Associazione Joint, that is hosting online the Annual General Meeting of the informal network right before the online conference.

To register go to the online form and for any question contact living.solidarity.alliance@gmail.com.

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The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) Science & Technology Conference is going to be held in June 24-28 in Vienna, Austria. The civil society advocates from all over the world await it with their breaths captured. It’s hard to believe but it’s been just over 3 years since the CTBTO Youth Group has been established to support the CTBTO agenda from the future leaders’ perspective. Back then it seemed promising, though the global youth engagement experience that could extend even to the most high-level events on the agenda has been poor if it ever existed. The CTBTO had the unexplored path to step into to accomplish the objectives for which the Youth Group got formed.

The beginning

The way my own life has been rolling out nothing seemed to predict me joining the Youth Group, though it happened as such through the numerous surprises from my own destiny. Simply visiting Vienna back in April 2016 half of our student group got sent to see the OSCE session and another one got to tour the Vienna International Centre (VIC) where Ban Ki-Moon, the UN 8^th Secretary General, was supposed to be present. I personally dreamed of seeing the UN Secretary-General, the ambassador of all nations and of people, the figure so grand in my imagination. I was 17 years old back then and was hoping to achieve something important and very early. I woke up every day hoping to reach the stars that were shining for me.

The CTBTO

And once inside of the VIC we went to take our tour and then proceeded to the CTBTO Anniversary Ministerial Meeting. The hall was packed and we, the tiny students from some distinct Russian towns, have stood almost by the doors. In such cases I always find my way to get through and stand so that I can participate well. I knew I wasn’t there for standing and watching, I was there for acting. That was my first time I ever heard about CTBTO. Anxiously googling everything about the Organization I actively posed my questions live through Twitter. My activity got noticed by the moderators for sure. Finally, by the closing of the session the floor was open for questions. And there I knew – this was my one and only chance to address the UN Secretary-General directly. I had no idea about what I should ask him. Though I knew I had to ask something. And I started googling everything about Ban Ki-Moon and have discovered that he won an essay contest and visited the United States of America as an award back when he was a school student. I am also the winner of a similar U.S. Department of State Exchange Program and I have linked our biographies into a question: “How winning a high school essay contest lead you to become the UN Secretary-General?”. Everyone turned back to see the boy who asked such an extraordinary question. I heard people smiling and applauding. I felt as if the question was posed at a right time and at a right moment.

Joining the Youth Group

And that question led me to have been noticed by CTBTO and the offer to join the newly forming Youth Group followed right after. I accepted it still having little idea about the organization. I was 17 back when I joined it and I was still in High School. Over the years of my engagement with the Youth Group I have been pursuing every chance to get involved whether it be helping at a booth during the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in San-Francisco or participating at an unforgettable trip to one of the first Soviet nuclear test sites in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – everything welcomed me to learn more and fall deeper in love with the good causes of CTBTO – secure the world we live in from the nuclear arms testing. Once and forever we are capable of achieving it as a whole. Recognizing the mutual concerns of all parties and respecting all views. The important and almost universally accepted idea is that CTBT has to enter into force. Though the missing signatures to the Treaty remind us of the differences in the approach to the issue. This makes the situation even more challenging, though it is also the opportunity to cooperate more.

The CTBTO 2019 Science and Technology Conference

The conference to be held during this week is the bell ringing for all the citizens of the planet Earth to come together to the city where diplomacy experienced its’ Renaissance. The city where nations recognized the power of negotiations stronger and more robust than the power of any weapons. This is the time to remember this and recognize that the comprehensive agreements are uneasy to reach, though once the determination is strong and the support is extensive – they are simply a signature away. The Youth Group members are actively engaging into the dialogue on the grounds of CTBTO to learn as much as they can from the current policymakers as if they were in line waiting for their time to come. Taking into account how strongly the role of the youth actors is transforming currently, I would offer the alternative plan: the youth is not the one to come tomorrow and to take on the unfinished work. The Youth is here and now to engage into resolving the challenges. And CTBTO is on the right track having the extraordinary Youth Group open to all inspired individuals offering them the means to learn and participate, impact the agenda and address the policymakers and the expert community to get together to work out the solutions for making CTBT become the codified universal law. The bells of 2019 Science and Technology Conference ring louder than ever before.

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It will be co-hosted by the Sustainable Ocean Alliace and the university of Tromsø, with the partecipation of the Norwegian ministry of Foreign Affairs. The theme for 2019 is “Co-creating the Sustainable Blue Economy”

The summit is taking place in the framework of the “Our Ocean” Conference. The mission of the conference is to gather together all the most important stakeholders at global level involved in one of the most challenging issues of nowadays: preserving the ocean. There will be representatives of governments, industry, science and civil society, discussing and working together to find a balance between the market’s demands and the safety of the environment. The “Our Ocean” conferences were initiated by Secretary of State John Kerry in 2014, with the aim to put oceans on the foreign policy agenda and create a platform where leaders from government, business and civil society meet on an equal footing to promote action and innovation for clean, healthy and productive oceans.

The Sustainable Ocean Alliance, based in San Francisco, aims at preserving the ocean with a collective worldwide action, spreading beyond national borders. Following the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal Number 14, SOA implemented two programmes: Ocean leadership programme and Ocean solutions accelerator. The Ocean leadership programme foresees a joint action between young people from all over the world: they apply to become Ocean leaders and then they can ideate, implement and create campaigns and advocacy campaigns, through so-called Ocean solutions Hubs.

Three main topics for this fourth “Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit”: inspire, inform, empower. The participants will get the chance to build holistic solutions that better balance the needs of society, industry and the ocean environment. The participants will get the chance to:

• Participate in a solution-driven bootcamp to apply knowledge and technology that can help us protect our oceans
• Raise your profile and network with 500+ policymakers, corporate leaders, heads of international organizations, foundations, and NGOs
• Receive mentorship and develop your professional skill sets by learning from business, government, and science experts
• Meet with entrepreneurs who are building scalable ocean startups to help protect and sustain our ocean
• Become an #SOAOceanLeader and join our global community represented in over 130 countries.

Applications must be sent before July 5, 2019 11:59pm PST at the following link.

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