The Youth Department of the Council of Europe is launching a call for participants for the seminar “The role of youth work in combating segregation in school environments: a seminar for youth workers and actors in formal education”, which will be held in Strasbourg, 21-24 November 2012. Deadline for applying: 22 October 2012.
By organising this seminar, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe seeks to support the role of youth work, youth organisations and education actors actively engaged in fighting segregation, by promoting the exchange of practices on fighting segregation and identifying principles and approaches applicable to youth, educational, and social policies.
On the 10th September the long awaited 2012 EU Youth Report was published. This document offers us an assessment of the progress made in the eight fields of action of the EU Youth Strategy and an overall analysis of the situation of young people in Europe. The report is produced every three years by the European Commission and brings together national youth reports of the EU member states, plus Croatia, Norway, Switzerland and Montenegro. For the first time, young people were consulted throughout the process as well. The results will be transmitted to the Council of the European Union later this year.
The report that analyses the first three years of EU youth policy, welcomes the fact that all Member States have adopted national youth strategies. With this though, it recognises that young people still face many obstacles, such as the impact of the crisis. Therefore, in order to achieve the objectives set out by the EU youth strategy, such as equal opportunities for all young people and the promotion of active citizenship, further steps have to be taken. The report announces the Commission's willingness to continue working on youth employment and entrepreneurship, social inclusion and health and well being of young people. The report continues by suggesting some possible measures: non-formal and informal learning, youth guarantees and the quality framework for internships. As a conclusion, the Commission calls for a deeper cross-sectorial cooperation at the European and national level.
Youth NGOs are invited to apply to a special call for pilot projects to be funded by the European Youth Foundation. The call aims at supporting projects in the framework of the Council of Europe’s flagship project on Young People Combating Hate Speech On-line, which will be run by the youth sector between 2012 and 2014. The project aims to combat racism and discrimination in their on-line expression of hate speech by equipping young people and youth organisations with the competences necessary to recognize and act against such human rights violations. In this framework, a European-wide campaign against hate speech on-line will be running in 2013 aiming to motivate, engage and mobilise young people and youth organisations to take action against hate speech online.
In the training course on November 6 to 9, 2012 in Murska Sobota, Slovenia, participants will have an opportunity to learn about the Youth in Action programme and good practise examples of international / Youth in Action projects involving Roma youth. The training course will cover the basics related to a project cycle and (international) project management, reinforce the motivation for the organisations to do international projects and prepare participants to face the intercultural elements and possible challenges related to international Roma youth projects. Field trip to local Roma settlements will provide an insight into a local Roma organization “Roma academic club” and their good practices of integrating young Roma into the society. Participants will also have the opportunity to share good practises and to discuss issues of their interest.
In the framework of the Roma Youth Action Plan, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe is launching now a CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for a training course "Training Roma youth leaders and activists for promoting human rights and taking action against discrimination". The residential training seminar will take place in Budapest, 21 - 29 October 2012. The training course aims to empower and develop the competences of Roma youth leaders and activists to take action, at local, national and European levels, against discrimination and anti-Gypsyism based on human rights and active youth participation.
The deadline to apply is Friday, 7 September 2012.
All candidates must apply online, completing the application form through this link: http://youthapplications.coe.int/
For further information and questions, please contact Nina Kapoor / Jackie Lubelli at eyc.programme@coe.int Course description in English and in Romani
RROMA - Macedonia it's the first association member who became a full ternYpe member. With a democratical way of voting from the other ternYpe members, RROMA from today it is a full member in the International Roma youth network. We are happy to have RROMA from Macedonia in our network. Congratulation RROMA, welcome to ternYpe.
On the 10th September the long awaited 2012 EU Youth Report was published. This document offers us an assessment of the progress made in the eight fields of action of the EU Youth Strategy and an overall analysis of the situation of young people in Europe. The report is produced every three years by the European Commission and brings together national youth reports of the EU member states, plus Croatia, Norway, Switzerland and Montenegro. For the first time, young people were consulted throughout the process as well. The results will be transmitted to the Council of the European Union later this year.
Youth NGOs are invited to apply to a special call for 
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In the framework of the Roma Youth Action Plan, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe is launching now a CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for a training course "Training Roma youth leaders and activists for promoting human rights and taking action against discrimination". The residential training seminar will take place in Budapest, 21 - 29 October 2012. The training course aims to empower and develop the competences of Roma youth leaders and activists to take action, at local, national and European levels, against discrimination and anti-Gypsyism based on human rights and active youth participation.
