EU Youth Strategy: “Engaging, Connecting and Empowering Young People”

EU Youth Strategy:
“Engaging, Connecting and Empowering Young People”

EU’s New Youth Strategy encourages youth participation to democratic life, supports social and civic engagement and also aims to provide young people the required resources to take part in society.  Moreover, it supports to connecting young people across the EU and beyond to foster voluntary engagement, learning mobility, solidarity and intercultural understanding.
In this context, the European Commission proposed some important novelties compared to the current policy framework.
These innovations are as follows:
•    A new EU Youth coordinator to canalize that voices of young people in the Commission, thus allowing young people to contribute to shaping EU policies;
•    Establishing a new EU Youth Dialogue prepared by taking into account the concerns of youth;
•    Tracking of EU spending for youth in main funding programmes;
•    Creating an agenda for youth’s work to further improve its quality, innovation and recognition and to allow other sectors to capitalise on the potential of non-formal learning; 
•    A wider link between EU youth policy implementation and related programme activities in Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.
 

For more information about the European Union Youth Strategy: https://ec.europa.eu/youth/policy/youth-strategy

Sources: https://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/eu-youth-strategy-adopted_en