Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform

The Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform aims at facilitating networking between all those involved in the youth sector in the Mediterranean and Europe. It brings young people from the region together in an environment of tolerance and mutual understanding, facilitating networking between them, assisting in the capacity building of youth organisations, increasing youth participation, sharing of relevant information, and exchanging good practice. Some 4500 organisations from all European and Mediterranean countries have joined the Platform to date.

We assist in the search for partners, publish a magazine in 3 languages, organise meetings, provide an on-line FORUM for discussion, and assist in financing youth initiatives.

Our objectives are the nurturing of democracy and its established instruments, and fostering mutual understanding as well as improvement in the issues of racism, gender equality and minority rights.

The Platform researches the situation of young people in each country. The uniqueness of this study is that it is not a treaty by academics, but the situation of young people as seen by young people themselves. This is a good reference tool for those working with a country for the first time.

We also facilitate the creation of Euro-Mediterranean youth networks. These include one for young people involved in trade unions, a Euro-Mediterranean Student Forum, a network for youth involved in political parties, one for officers responsible for youth in local governments, one for those working with sexual minorities, another for those working on youth trafficking, and one for those working on gender-related matters.

The Platform received the 2005 Newropeans Grand Prix Award for its contribution to democracy.