YOUTH EVENT / PROGRAMME

• European Youth Forum, Ms Bettina Schwarzmayr, President
• Directorate of Youth and Sports, Council of Europe: Mr Ralf-Rene Weingaertner, Director
• Ministry for Youth, Family and Sports: Mr Yuriy Pavlenko, Minister (tbc)
• Ukrainian Youth Forum: Mr Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Chairman

• Aims and objectives of the event
• Expected results

• European Steering Committee for Youth: Jan Vanhee, Chairman
• Advisory Council on Youth: Georg Boldt, Chairman

• Keynote speaker: Lasse Siurala, Director of the Youth Department of Helsinki City Council, Finland

• Ensuring young people's full enjoyment of human rights dignity and encouraging their commitment in this regard;
• Promoting young people's active participation in democratic processes and structures;
• Promoting equal opportunities for the participation of all young people in all aspects of their everyday lives;
• Implementing de facto gender equality and preventing all forms of gender-based violence;
• Promoting awareness education and action amongst young people on environment and sustainable development;
• Facilitating the access of all young people to information and counselling services.

• Empowering young people to promote, in their daily life, cultural diversity as well as intercultural dialogue and co-operation and their religious dimension;
• Preventing and counteracting all forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia and extremism;
• Supporting initiatives of young people and their organisations in conflict prevention and management as well as post-conflict reconciliation by means of dialogue ;
• Supporting youth work with young refugees, asylum-seekers and displaced persons;
• Further encouraging the development of sub-regional youth co-operation in Europe and beyond;
• Encouraging young people to promote global solidarity and co-operation.

• Facilitating young people's access to education, training and working life, particularly through the promotion and recognition of non-formal education;
• Supporting young people's transition from education to labour market, for example by strengthening possibilities to reconcile private and working life;
• Supporting the integration of young people who are socially and economically disadvantaged;
• Supporting young people's autonomy and well-being as well as their access to decent living conditions;
• Ensuring young people's equal right of access to creative and artistic activities as well as sport activities;
• Encouraging intergenerational dialogue and solidarity.

• Promoting equal opportunities for girls and boys, young women and young men.
• Empowering young people to promote cultural diversity as well as intercultural dialogue and its religious dimension
• Supporting young people's access to social rights
• Promoting intergenerational dialogue and solidarity

• YFJ: Ms Bettina Schwarzmayr, President of the YFJ
• Directorate for Education, Culture, Heritage, Youth and Sport, Ms Gabriella Battaini- Dragoni, Director (tbc)