ANNEX

Work Plan for the EU Youth Strategy 2022-2024 (1)

Date Working method/instrument Indicative target and output Related youth goals Relation to the Framework establishing a European Youth Work Agenda (2) Proposed by FR, CZ, SE Overall topic: ‘Engaging together for a sustainable and inclusive Europe’ European Youth goals: #3 INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES and #10 SUSTAINABLE GREEN EUROPE 2022 (1st half) (poss.) Council Conclusions on the engagement of young people for sustainable development (working title) Adoption by the Council Encourage policy makers and stakeholders in the youth sector to take the views of young people into account and enable them to be actors in public policies and programmes relating to sustainable development and the fight against climate change. Sustainable green Europe §10a FR 2022 (1st half) (poss.) Update of the Council Recommendation on the mobility of young volunteers across the European Union Adoption by the Council Strengthen the potential of the European Youth Programmes to reaching out to young people and help them to build a community. Space and participation for all Connecting EU with Youth Youth organisations and European programmes FR, (COM) 2022 (1st half) (poss.) Informal meeting of ministers for youth and for education Exchanges of best practices. Youth engagement on sustainable development issues. Sustainable green Europe §10a FR 2022 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the participation of young people Exchanges of best practices between experts on youth participation. Follow up on the 8th cycle and on the Conference on the future of Europe. Space and participation for all Connecting EU with Youth §10e FR 2022 (2nd half) Council conclusions on fostering an intergenerational dimension in youth policy-making (working title) Adoption by the Council Integrate the concerns of today’s youth and future generations more systematically into policy-making. Facilitate recognition of the importance of promoting intergenerational dialogue for fostering intergenerational solidarity and justice for a strong, resilient, green and inclusive Europe. Inclusive societies CZ 2023 (1st half) (poss.) Council conclusions on the social dimension of a sustainable green Europe Adoption by the Council Policy recommendations on the social dimension of a sustainable green Europe promoting the inclusion of all young people’s voices and ideas on sustainable development. Sustainable green Europe Inclusive societies §10a §26 SE 2023 (1st half) (poss.) Council Resolution on the outcomes of the 9th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue Adoption by the Council Summary, reflection and evaluation of the 9th EUYD cycle. Strengthen the outreach of information to marginalised young people, further develop process/governance of EUYC and EUYD to enhance inclusion and feedback. Sustainable green Europe Inclusive societies Information and constructive dialogue Space and participation for all SE 2023 (1st half) (poss) Revision of the Resolution of the Council on the EU Youth Strategy Work Plan 2022- 2024 Revision of the Resolution of the Council on the EU Youth Strategy Work Plan 2022-2024 Inclusive societies SE ES, BE, HU Overall topic European Youth goal: #3 INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES (3) 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Council conclusions on decent and affordable housing for young people. Adoption by the Council. Council conclusions on decent and affordable housing for young people. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/Seminar on stable and well-paid employment for young people. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on gender equality among young people. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the effects of climate change on inclusion. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchanges of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/Seminar on youth opportunities in rural areas. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchanges of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) Topic to be determined among those identified by the Conferences/seminars EU Youth Conference Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on young people’s LGBTI rights. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/Seminar on young people’s with disabilities. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices. ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the implications for young people of the 2030 Agenda and the future. (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices. Inclusive Societies ES 2023 (2nd half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the implementation of the Recommendation on the mobility of youth volunteers in the EU (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchanges of experiences Inclusive societies Connecting EU with Youth European youth programmes COM and ES 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Informal ministers conference or high-level meeting Midterm evaluation EU-Youth Strategy 2019-2027 (4) All Youth Goals §13 (a) Empower/quality, innovation, recognition §36 COM and BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Council conclusions on leaving no one behind (?) preliminary title Adoption by the Council Council conclusions ‘on leaving no one behind: paving the way towards the social inclusion of all young people’ (5) Inclusive Societies §3 §4 §5 §6 §10 (d) §13 (b) §16 §19 §20 §21 §22 §33 BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference on the social inclusion of young people EU Youth Conference (6) Inclusive Societies §3 §4 §5 §6 §10 (d) §13 (b) §16 §19 §20 §21 §22 §33 BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar PLA on local youth work (It is where young people’s experience of youth work usually starts, and it is where most youth work usually happens.) Policy recommendations Compendium of best practices Aligning with the European Youth Work Agenda/Bonn Process In cooperation with ’Europe goes local’ and ’Democracy reloading’ (tbc) Signposts for the Future where the ‘local youth work offer’ is delineated as the first item of three under the heading ‘Youth work provision’. Point 7 of the Final Declaration of the 3rd European Youth Work Convention says that ’a basic youth work offer should therefore include a clear strategy to enhance social inclusion and diversity among participating young people’ (7). An evaluation of where we are with the implementation of Signposts for the Future and to identify objectives for the next European Youth Work Convention. Youth Organisations and European Programmes Inclusive Societies §3 §8 §10 (a) §10 (c) §10 (e) §13 (b) §13 (c) §14 §16 §17 §18 §19 §20 §21 §22 §23 §24 §25 §27 §34 §38 §39 BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on child friendly cities (in cooperation with InterCity Youth) (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchanges of best practices (with the youth friendly cities label and European Youth Capitals sharing their work) In line with: (poss.) conference/seminar/PLA on local youth work. Space and participation for all Inclusive Societies BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on ’the right to play’ and the link with learning (formal, non-formal and informal learning) (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchange of best practices Possible link to the conference/seminar/PLA on local youth work Space and participation for all Quality Learning Inclusive Societies §1 §2 §4 §5 BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Council Resolution on local youth work Adoption by the Council Promotion of local youth work (practice) (8) All Youth Goals §3 §8 §10 (a) §10 (c) §10 (e) §13 (b) §13 (c) §14 §16 §17 §18 §19 §20 §21 §22 §23 §24 §25 §27 §34 §38 §39 BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the recognition of competences / education and training (depending on the focus and continuing the work of the FI or FR presidencies?) §14 §18 §20 §21 #5 of Signposts for the Future BE 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the evaluation and update of European and international agenda’s on children, youth and children’s rights Evaluation and recommendations Adoption by the Council Update Council conclusions Information and constructive dialogue BE (and poss. COM) 2024 (1st half) (poss.) Conference/seminar on the following topics: youth maps; leisure-time monitor; interesting research from the JOP (the Youth Research Platform). (poss.) Policy recommendations Exchanges of best practices (e.g. on national indicators for youth policy in connection with the new EU Dashboard) §10 (c) §39 BE 2024 (2nd half) (poss.) Council Resolution on the 10th cycle of the EU Youth Dialogue Adoption by the Council Space and participation for all §1 §2 §6 §21 §22 HU 2024 (2nd half) (poss.) Council conclusions on the creation of conditions which enable young people to fulfil their potential in rural areas. Adoption by the Council Moving rural youth forward §1 §2 §5 §13 (d) §21 §26 HU 2024 (2nd half) Conference on the presidency trio’s priorities / open method of coordination EU Youth Conference and DG meeting Final outcome of the EU Youth Dialogue cycle under the ES-BE-HU trio presidency Inclusive societies Space and participation for all Moving rural youth forward §1 §2 §6 §13 (b) §19 §21 HU 2024 (2nd half) (Conference) Summarising, reviewing and evaluating event for the first 10 cycles of the EU Youth (Structured) Dialogue. Overview of the 10 cycles of the EU Youth (Structured) Dialogue Space and participation for all Information and constructive dialogue §1 §2 §6 §26 HU, ES, BE, (poss. COM) 2024 (2nd half) (Seminar) Tools to create conditions which enable young people to fulfil their potential in rural areas. Exchanges of best practices on inter-sectoral and inter-institutional level Forming recommendations. Moving rural youth forward Space and participation for all Youth organisations and European youth programmes Quality learning. §1 §5 § 11 §13 (a) §24 §33 §37. HU (and poss. COM)

(1) Compiled by the SI Presidency on the basis of the Commission’s ’Possible actions for a future EU Work Plan for Youth for 2019-2021’ (ST-9264-2018-ADD-1-EN) and the preliminary information received by the trio presidencies FR-CZ-SE and ES-BE-HU.

(2) See the Resolution of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council on the Framework establishing a European Youth Work Agenda (2020/C 415/01).

(3) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:42018Y1218(01)&from=NL

Background: One third of young people in Europe are at risk of poverty and social exclusion particularly those who are not in employment, education or training (NEET)). Many do not have access to their social rights, experience inequalities within society or are merely left behind. Many continue to face multiple discriminations, experience prejudice and hate crimes. Additionally, new migratory phenomena brought several social and inclusion challenges (including the digital gap) to young new comers. Therefore, it is crucial to work towards the fulfilment of the rights and the social inclusion of all young people in Europe, including the most marginalised and excluded to honour the Union’s commitment to leave no one behind.

Goal: Enable, ensure and safeguard the inclusion of all young people in society.

Targets:

Provide legal protection and enforce international legal instruments to fight against all kinds of discrimination, inequalities and hate-inspired acts, recognising that young people may be subjected to discrimination in all its forms.

Strengthen the outreach of information, contact and communication to young people with fewer opportunities or those left behind, to ensure they are aware of and have access to opportunities and activities available to them and of the spaces where they are part of society and can engage.

Ensure that all young people with fewer opportunities or those left behind have equal access to formal and non-formal learning/education environments and opportunities, whilst addressing all the dimensions of inclusion.

Strengthen the capacities of educators to work with marginalised young people or those left behind.

Provide more spaces, opportunities, resources and programmes to foster dialogue, comprehension and social cohesion, and combat discrimination, polarisation and segregation.

Extend access and entitlement to relevant and meaningful opportunities and experiences.

(4) The Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR) should provide input on the evaluation of the process and the methodology of the previous cycles of the EU Youth Dialogue and on how the EU Youth Goals were covered, in order to better plan and deliver the second half of the Strategy.

(5) Possible step forward in cross-sectoral cooperation with the social, employment, education, health etc. sectors. Support-background documents requested from the PEYR.

N.B. Ursula Von der Leyen, in her State of the Union speech, emphasised the need to support those young people who ’fall into the gaps’ (spaces and bridges?) – (ENGAGE & CONNECT).

(6) Support requested from the PEYR.

(7) In close cooperation with the Partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth and the Community of practice on the European Youth Work Agenda (EYWA). Support also asked from PEYR.

(8) BE understands that there might be a tension between the competence of the EU and the principle of subsidiarity, but the Bonn process is all about how top down meets bottom up and vice versa. The Union can assist local youth work through supporting, coordinated or supplementing actions.