On Thursday, 19 February, the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion officially launched the EYA Erasmus+ Project, an initiative aimed at strengthening youth participation and consolidating spaces for structured dialogue between young people and institutions. The project is 100% funded by the European Union, with a total budget of €59,876, and will last 18 months, with execution scheduled until 2027.
The initiative is led by the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion and is being developed within the framework of a consortium formed by the Catalan Youth Agency and the Balearic Youth Institute. The project is mainly aimed at young people between 16 and 30 years old who are part of the Euroregional Youth Assembly, which will become the central core of the program, although it will also be open to other young people between 13 and 30 years old, as well as regional and European political representatives and associative and institutional actors linked to public youth policies.
The Euroregional Youth Assembly, created in 2023 in line with the priorities defined in the 2021-2030 roadmap, is made up of young people from our territories (Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Occitania Region) with the aim of guaranteeing active participation and youth representation within the Euroregional cooperation space. The new project was born in response to the low participation of young people in decision-making spaces and the perception of a disconnection between young people and institutions. Given this reality, the initiative is committed to generating spaces for meeting and exchange that facilitate dialogue between young people and political leaders, as well as strengthening cooperation between territories and promoting active citizenship.
The project is based on values such as inclusion and diversity, participation in democratic life, promotion of common values and citizen participation, protection of the environment and the fight against climate change. Over the coming months, quarterly working meetings and events will be organised in the territories of the Euroregion, open to those actors linked to the public policies that are being worked on at any given time. The topics addressed will include culture and cultural diversity, sustainable fashion, climate change and other strategic issues for the future of European youth, as well as a visit to the European institutions in Brussels.
Among the expected results are the creation of a multilingual methodological kit and the development of formal political recommendations that will collect the proposals of young people in order to transfer them to institutional leaders.
The first event will take place from 13 to 15 March in L’Escala, Catalonia, and will focus on youth policies. This inaugural meeting, open and participatory, will mark the beginning of a cycle of youth cooperation and involvement and consolidates the Euroregion’s commitment to a youth protagonist, active and involved in building the shared future of its territories.
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