via Novara 41
00198
Rome
إيطاليا
- Youth and education
THE MISSION:
The Italian Youth Council works to involve young people into the social and political debate creating opportunities of active citizenship, youth participation and European awareness.
It is committed to create a space for debating and sharing of experiences between national and international youth associations and Italian and European institutions.
The personal growth and the integration of new generations represent, in concrete, the main challenges to grant social equality and democracy in our Country.
ACTIVITIES
The activities of the Italian Youth Forum are based on:
• The centrality of the person;
• Active citizenship;
• Dialogue with National, European and International institutions;
• Education and Training;
OUR PRIORITIES
• increasing the participation of young people into the social, civil and political life and in the decision making process;
• creating opportunities of meeting, debating and sharing of experiences between member organisations and Institutions;
• facilitating cooperation and networking between member organisations;
Over the last years, FNG has been supporting YFJ in the dialogue and cooperation with the Mediterranean and Arab region focusing on capacity building, volunteering and youth rights. From this work, developed in partnership with the Council of Europe (CoE), the League of Arab States (LAS), the World Bank – MENA Region and ICMYO organisations emerge the Euro-Arab Coordination Meetings of Youth Organisations (EACMYO) and the participation of European youth representatives in the Youth Forums of the League of Arab States and other inter-regional meetings. In 2010 FNG organised the 1st Euro-Arab Youth Conference Mare Nostrum – Youth, Migration and Development, in Ragusa - Sicily, Italy, in cooperation with the Youth Forum, CoE and LAS. In responding to the new political context in the Mediterranean and Arab region, FNG will focus on the recognition and promotion of the role of non formal education as a methodology to develop youth organizations in terms of active participation and key competences development, in order to create innovative and sustainable proposals, implement specific policies for active citizenship and social inclusion, enhance young people competences and employability through activities of capacity building and leadership empowerment in the Mediterranean and Arab region.
Creating synergies among the different activities organised at national level, bringing the experience of the 1° Mediterranean university on Youth and Global Citizenship that will be organised in Tunisia next July, widening the network of European and Arab youth organisations active in the field of youth rights and democracy.
FNG is willing to take part in the ALF Network because it is fundamental to collaborate and cooperate for the development of the Mediterranean area together with all the stakeholders in order to create a real space of mutual understanding, social, economical, political and environmental cooperation.