WYA Europe Operating grant 2025

ongoing

World Youth Alliance Europe (WYAE) is a coalition of young people committed to promoting the dignity of the person in Europe and building solidarity among youth. Currently it has 40 formal and informal organizations and partners in its network, spreading in 18 European countries, and 30 different cities or regions. All the WYA Chapters and partners organizations associated with our network were actively involved in making the Strategic Plan for 2025 and designing and planning of more than 20 activities that have an aim of mainstreaming the European Youth Strategy among youth from all parts of Europe. The work programme is composed of a series of activities, some running during the whole year and others being designed as specific events. The typology of activities includes statutory events (such as the General Assembly), communication, advocacy towards decision-makers (Members of the European Parliament and of national parliaments), workshops, media and communication activites, debates, trainings, workshops and grassroots campaigns. Most of the activities are focused on the core topic of WYAE (human dignity, human rights, social inclusion, etc.) and mainstreaming EU youth policies, most notably the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027. All the different fields or subjects treated are thus following a human dignity accompanied by a person-centred approach, as well as EU policy priorities. The activities aim to produce strong outputs in terms of developed skills and competences of youth, their increased social inclusion, democratic participation, international mobility and employability, as well as two policy papers which will aim to provide the youth input to the relevant EU youth policies.