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 one of the governing bodies of the DYS, namely the Advisory Council on Youth.

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 Edmundas Balcikonis from the Pool of Representatives.

 

 

 

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 started 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 99 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. 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, as well as several working groups. In many cases, EEE-YFU is represented by a member of the Pool of Representatives.

 

European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL)

The European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL) gathers 31 European networks working in education and training. Together, these organisations cover all sectors of education and training including networks for secondary and higher education, vocational education and training, adult education and popular education; networks for students, school heads, parents, HRD professionals, teachers and trainers. Through its members, EUCIS-LLL embodies lifelong learning.

EEE-YFU has been a member of EUCIS-LLL since spring 2012. Together with other members of the platform, EEE-YFU has been engaged in advocacy work in fields relevant to education and training organisations, such as the creation of the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport as well as the Europe 2020 strategy.

Platform for Intercultural Europe

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.  The name has now been changed to the Platform for Intercultural Europe.

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 continued its work during the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) and beyond.

Polglotti4.eu

The Poliglotti4.eu project originated from the work of the Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism, which has been working for more than a year on behalf of the European Commission on the situation of multilingualism in the fields of Education, Linguistic Diversity and Social Cohesion, Translation and Terminology, and Language Policy. The research has led to the development of a set of recommendations for the implementation of a European multilingualism policy, constituting the basis of the Poliglotti4.eu project, to which nine members of the Platform have committed.

 

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) 
• Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
  
• 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.