External Partners

Council of Europe (CoE)
Directorate of Youth and Sports (DYS)

The Council of Europe (CoE), especially its Directorate of Youth and Sport (DYS), is one of EEE-YFU’s most important partners. EEE-YFU is organising and participating in activities and events under the CoE regularly, while at the same time being represented in the two governing bodies of the DYS, namely the Advisory Council on Youth and the Programming Committee on Youth, which guide the institutions programmes in the youth field.

Advisory Council on Youth
The Advisory Council on Youth is a body within the unique Co-Management structure of the Council of Europe’s DG of Youth and Sports. Its members represent different International Youth NGOs and European National Youth Councils as well as other structures involved in youth policy. The Advisory Council meets twice a year to discuss youth policy-related topics and is involved in on-going consultation on those with the Committee of Ministers.

EEE-YFU has been one of 30 members of the Advisory Council on Youth, represented by chairman Oliver Wagner, since 2003 (re-election in 2006).

Programming Committee on Youth
Together with eight representatives from the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ), eight elected members from the Advisory Council on Youth form the Programming Committee on Youth. The Committee meets twice a year to take decisions regarding the European Youth Foundation’s and the European Youth Centres’ programmes.

Oliver Wagner is member of the Programming Committee on Youth of the DYS.

 

 

 

European Commission

Between 2006 and 2008 EEE-YFU cooperated with the European Commission on the Individual Pupil Mobility Programme. Together with the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) EEE-YFU carried out the pilot project for this programme which is planned to start as Comenius sub-programme in 2010.

 

For more information on EEE-YFU's involvement in the tender, please see the Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility Project section on this website.

 

EEE-YFU is also working closely together with the European Commission in regards to the Youth in Action programme of the Directorate-General Education and Culture.

 

 

 

European Youth Forum (YFJ)

The European Youth Forum is a platform bringing together 97 National Youth Councils and International Youth NGOs from all over Europe.

It provides its members with a space for networking and represents them and their interests – and thus the interests of young people in Europe – towards the European Institutions and other important bodies on European and international level such as the Council of Europe and the United Nations.

EEE-YFU has been a member of the European Youth Forum for many years and is represented in its major statutory bodies and structures as listed below. In addition, EEE-YFU is participating actively in many ad hoc activities, such as trainings, seminars and info days on the recognition of non-formal education, mobility and volunteering.

Council of Europe Affairs Commission (COEACOM)
Hanh Nha Ruyter, YFU Norway, is representing EEE-YFU in the Council of Europe Affairs Commission (COEACOM). The COEACOM focuses on the YFJ’s cooperation with the Council of Europe and developments regarding its youth policy.

Pool of Trainers (PoT)
EEE-YFU is represented actively in the Pool of Trainers (PoT) by EEE-YFU Board members Bettina Kiséri-Nagy and Peter Torp Madsen as well as Daniel Bloemers, YFU Germany. The trainers provide trainings for the member organisations of the YFJ, while at the same time developing valuable skills and knowledge which can be applied throughout the YFU world.

 

 

 

Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue:
Rainbow Platform

The Rainbow Platform was created in 2007 upon an idea by the European Cultural Foundation and the European Forum for Arts and Heritage to bring together organisations and public institutions from all kinds of fields to, through a cross-sectoral approach, find ways to advance the practice of intercultural dialogue in urban environments in preparation for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

EEE-YFU is a member of the Platform and, through Director Elizabeth Niland, was involved in drafting the platform’s Rainbow Paper, which was finalised in October 2007. Based on the Rainbow Paper, the Platform will continue its work during the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) and beyond.

 

 

 

Other International Youth NGOs

In the past years EEE-YFU also cooperated at various levels with the following partners:

• European Students Forum (AEGEE)
  
• Alliance for European Voluntary Service Organisations (ALLIANCE)
  
• European Volunteer Centre (CEV)
  
• European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL)
  
• European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA)
  
• Youth Action for Peace (YAP)
  
• Youth for Exchange and Understanding (YEU)
• Youth of European Nationalities (YEN)
• Minorities of Europe (MOE)
• Youth Express network (Y-E-N)

and other European youth organisations within the framework of the European Youth Forum and the Council of Europe.