The Euro-Med Youth Platform

In Malta, the Euro-Med Youth Platform falls within the framework of the Youth in Action Programme and is hosted within the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA) The EUPA is responsible for the management and implementation of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), the Youth in Action Programme (YiA), the National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance (Euroguidance), CEDEFOP Study Visits, Euro-desk, the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform, and as from 2008, the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals.

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.

Contcats:

Contact Person: Ms. Amanda Zammit

Address: Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform, European Union Programmes Agency, 36 Old Mint Street, Valletta VLT 1514, Malta

Telephone: +356 25586142
Facsimile: +356 25586139

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