YAP! 3.0: Youth Ministry of Happiness

ongoing

"YAP! 3.0 aims at raising awareness of the EU Youth Strategy, mainstreaming the principles of active youth participation in democratic life. ""2025 programme"" focuses on mainstreaming mental health of young people, working within 3 main pillars of Alternative Democracies,Social Cohesion and Mental Health,with the addition of Cross-Cutting Priorities of Youth, AI, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. Activities will focus on strengthening resilience of youth stakeholders, their cross-sectoral cooperation and engagement potential to provide more innovative OTB education to young people and engage in policy dialogues with relevant stakeholders, as well as mainstreaming OTB Skills for Life. Specific Objectives: to raise awareness of EU Youth Strategy, including Youth Goals. It will engage, connect, and empower youth through cross-sectoral capacity-building actions for young people, youth workers, and policymakers to increase commitment and cooperation between youth civil society actors and public authorities for implementation of policies and practices in areas relevant to young people, focusing on young people’s mental health to boost youth stakeholders’ engagement by harnessing potential of digital tools to promote dialogue, democratic participation and European solidarity to boost civil society involvement in dissemination of policy and program actions, results and good practices among memberships and beyond on local, regional, national, and European level. YAP!3.0,over 12 months, will cosist of 2 Work Packages (WP1:Support to Operations&WP2: support to functioning).It will spotlight Youth Ministry of Happiness concept and will comprise 25 events,2 deliverables,29 outputs(publications, reports, factsheets, recommendations, communication, dissemination measures, etc),reaching 104 young people, 341 NGOs and 59 Policymakers working in the field of Youth, as well as disseminate outputs to 15600 young people, 1420 NGOs,1420 policymakers and 71600 general reach."