On 5 July 2024, the Committee on Social Inclusion and Human Dignity of the Congress organised a consultative meeting in Strasbourg to move forward with the new revision of the European Charter on the participation of young people in local and regional life, adopted in 1992 and revised for the first time in 2003.
The meeting brought together Congress members, Congress Youth Delegates from Bulgaria, Greece, Malta, Montenegro and the United Kingdom, representatives of the Council of Europe’s Advisory Council on Youth and Steering Committee on Youth, and a number of European youth organisations. It provided an opportunity for exchanges between those key stakeholders in youth participation and youth work on ways of adapting the Charter to the current challenges faced by young people in Europe and increasing its impact as a European reference instrument. Discussions were inspired by the results of a recent survey conducted by the Congress.
The consultative meeting is the first step in an inclusive work process, based on the actual needs of today’s youth, and resulting in the adoption of the new revision of the Charter under the Committee of Ministers’ Presidency of Malta (May-November 2025).
