The Euro-Med
Youth Platform has been officially launched in September 2003.
The Platform aims at bringing young people from the region together in an environment of tolerance and mutual understanding, facilitating networking between us, assisting in the capacity building of our organisations, increasing our participation, sharing of relevant information, and exchanging good practice.
We provide networking services for youth initiatives in the region by assisting in the search for partners, facilitating the creation of networks of youth groups that have similar objectives, publishing a magazine in 3 languages, organising meetings, providing a forum for discussion, researching the situation of young people in each country, and distributing information about the Euro-Med Youth Programme.
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
Commission of the European Union and the Government
of Malta are the main financial contributors to the Platform.
A Steering Committee composed of the Director of the Platform,
representatives from the Youth
Unit, AIDCO
and DG
RELEX within the Commission of the European Communities,
SALTO
Euro-Med, and the European
Youth Forum overlooks the general progress of the Platform.
Together with the Euro-Med
Youth Programme, the Platform is an instrument being developed
within the framework of co-operation in the youth sector between
thirty-five countries, parties to the Euro-Mediterranean
Partnership Agreement (Barcelona Declaration). These are
Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland,
Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia,
Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
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