Youth

Youth is at the heart of EU cooperation with its Eastern partners. The EU promotes youth skills development and employability, education and training, and supports youth engagement in civic, cultural, academic and professional exchanges. Through its EU4Youth programme, the EU is dedicated to developing youth leadership and entrepreneurship through a variety of actions, including capacity building, fellowships, support to policy dialogue, as well as providing grants to organisations active in these areas.

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Ozzy the Hamster is back! Raising awareness on clean energy to avert climate catastrophe

June 2, 2023

International Children’s Day: the children of Ukraine deserve a bright future

On the occasion of the International Children’s Day on 1 June, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, issued a joint…

June 1, 2023

Together we are Europe: Young European Ambassadors in Ukraine promote EU among teenagers in Chernivtsi region

More than a hundred schoolchildren in three lyceums in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine participated in the activities of the EU-funded Young European Ambassadors (YEAs) initiative, timed to celebrate…

May 30, 2023

Moldova: EU supports business ideas with ‘Youth Start’

Since 2020, the European Union, through the EU Confidence Building Measures Programme in Moldova implemented by UNDP, has supported 39 business ideas with over €440,000. These achievements were…

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STORIES

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InnoIjevan: breathing new life into an old factory to promote tech skills in Armenia

May 22, 2023

‘Now I can be whoever I really want to be’: how to inspire the youth of Moldova to choose the job of their dreams

In Moldova, you can work from the age of 15. However, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova (2021), young people (15-34) comprise only 28% of those in work, or 243,000…

May 12, 2023

Learning to Teach – meet the 19-year-old technology teacher from Partskhanakhanevi

“Teachers still think I am a student,” says 19-year-old Akaki Pertsuliani – “and pupils call me ‘Teacher Akaki’ and sometimes just my first name.” But Akaki Pertsuliani really is a teacher…

May 12, 2023

Unique skills for top universities: how the Eastern Partnership School led two Ukrainian girls to Harvard and Yale

Seventeen-year-old Sabina Babayeva from Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in Kharkiv Oblast and eighteen-year-old Maria Gnatiuk from Moshchun in Bucha Region, Kyiv Oblast, have been studying in Georgia for two years…

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KEY PROJECTS

EU4Youth Coordination and Support

This project aims at ensuring the effective functioning of EU4Youth, its alignment with relevant policy dialogues, actions and other programmes, as well as the creation of synergies with other programmes for mutual reinforcement and avoiding duplications.

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Youth Engagement Roadmaps

This EU4Youth project aims to improve the national youth policies of the Eastern Partner countries by contributing to the development of an effective policy line and by stimulating the engagement of young people with local stakeholders, public experts and EU representatives.

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EU4Youth Alumni Network

The EU4Youth Alumni network brings together young beneficiaries of the EU4Youth, Erasmus+ Youth in Action and European Solidarity Corps programmes, and the network of Young European Ambassadors from the Eastern partner countries.

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OPPORTUNITIES

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Azerbaijan: EU and UNDP to support Vocational Education Festival in Baku this June

May 29, 2023

Ukraine: EU Career Days for youth from Kherson and Ternopil

The Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine invites students, representatives of NGOs, entrepreneurs, civil servants and active youth to take part in the EU Career Day organised this week. On 29…

May 24, 2023

Georgia: register for Social Services for Youth Hackathon by 5 June

The EU Delegation to Georgia invites designers, programmers and data enthusiasts interested in data visualisation to join the Social Services for Youth Hackathon on 29-30 June. The event is organised…

May 15, 2023

Young graduates from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine invited to join Council of Europe Junior Professional Programme

The Junior Professional Programme of the Council of Europe is looking for a junior project officer to work in its Secretariat in Strasbourg. Young graduates under the age of 35, with an interest in…

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EXPLAINERS

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EU4YOUTH ALUMNI NETWORK

Be it Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps, Young European Ambassadors or any other EU-funded initiative for young people in the Eastern Partnership, every year hundreds of graduates bring new experiences and skills back to their communities – and many want to do more, especially to support those with fewer opportunities. But figuring out on your own what you can do next can be a real challenge. This is why the EU4Youth Alumni Network was created.