NA staff training Erasmus+; Youth International cooperation Youth Windows Eastern Partnership Western Balkans Tunisia NA staff training 30-5-2017

Policy framework EU Youth Strategy (2010 – 2018) Erasmus+ (2014 – 2020) European Neighbourhood Policy (2004) - East and South - stability, security, prosperity Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (2015)

EU Youth Strategy (2010 – 2018) - Education and Training - Employment and Entrepreneurship - Health and Well-being - Participation - Voluntary Activities - Social inclusion - Youth and the World - Creativity and Culture

Erasmus+ Programme (2014 - 2020) contribution to the implementation of the EU Youth Strategy e.g. volunteering, inclusion, cooperation with Partner Countries Key Action 1 - Youth Exchanges - European Voluntary Service - Youth Workers Training and Networking Key Action 2 - Strategic Partnerships in the field of education, training and youth - Capacity Building in the field of Youth 3 Windows: Eastern Partnership, Western Balkans, Tunisia) Key Action 3 - Meetings between young people and decision-makers in the field of youth

Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (2015) - Youth highlighted as "key to stabilising societies in the neighbourhood"; - Need to develop further employment options for youth - Focus on jobs and skills, particularly of the young - Step up support for Erasmus+ - New emphasis on vocational training - New incentives for 'brain circulation' - Fostering out-of-school education (non-formal learning) - Involvement of youth organisations in preventing radicalisation

Eastern Partnership Eastern Partnership – since 2009 Association Agreements Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine Eastern Partnership Youth Forums - 1st and 2nd Eastern Partnership Youth Forums: Lithuania and Latvia - 3rd Eastern Partnership Youth Forum - Poland - Focus on priority issues (inclusion, employability, participation) - Impact on Eastern Partnership Summits Eastern Partnership Platform 4 – contacts between people

Eastern Partnership EU4Youth programme (2017 – 2018) Building on the success of the EaP Youth Window in 2012 and 2013 3 components Eastern Partnership Youth Window – in total 9 Mio EUR (2017, 2018) - Civil Society Fellowships - Partnerships for Entrepreneurship EU4Youth Grant scheme - Policy development regarding youth entrepreneurship and disadvantaged youth EU4Youth Coordination - Monitoring, Alumni Network for "Fellows" etc.

Western Balkans Berlin Process - Launched in 2014 as inter-governmental initiative to "demonstrate strong political support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans" - Includes people-to-people dialogue and topics such as migration, fighting extremism and radicalisation - 'Positive Agenda for Youth' (Brdo/Slovenia, 2015) - Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) (not part of E+) Western Balkans Youth Conference(s) (Paris; Trieste), recommendations to Western Balkans Summit Europe-Western Balkans Youth Meeting 'Connecting Youth Work and Youth Policy (Ljubljana, 28 September, organised by SALTO SEE) Western Balkans Youth Window continues with 3 Mio EUR per year

South Mediterranean Tunisian Youth Window - in 2017 and 2018, in total 1 Mio EUR - applicants need to be based in Tunisia - can involve partner organisations from other countries from the same region Russia?

Structures For example - NAs including SALTOs, - NEOs (National Erasmus+ Offices) - EU-CoE youth partnership - European Youth Forum (umbrella organisation of international youth NGOs and National Youth Councils)

Opportunities/challenges - Improve synergies between centralised and decentralised level - Improve synergies between policy level and programme level - Avoid fragmentation, focus on continuity - Inclusion - Visibility and exchange of good practice - 'let the projects speak'