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Official Journal of the European Union
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C series
C/2024/3526

3.6.2024

Resolution of the Council and of the representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council on youth work policy in an empowering Europe C/2024/3526

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL
RECALLING:

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The values of the European Union enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union TEU. 1

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That Articles 1652 and 1662 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union TFEU aim to support the development of quality youth work within the Union through concerted measures.

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Articles 21, 23 and 24 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 2.

RECALLING THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND SET OUT IN ANNEX I, IN PARTICULAR THAT:

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While youth work across Europe takes different forms and is associated with different perceptions, traditions, stakeholders and practices, the European Union has worked towards a systematic and sustainable approach to youth work development in order to create opportunities and optimal conditions for the development of young people as individuals, groups and generations and, at the same time, active and diligent actions to remedy exclusion, precarity and deprivation. 3

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The European Union Youth Strategy 2019-2027 acknowledges that youth work plays an important role in empowering young people. 4 It is supplemented by the European Youth Work Agenda of 2020, which establishes a strategic framework for strengthening and developing quality in, and recognition of youth work. Supporting quality youth work development, particularly at the local level, is a priority of the European Union and its Member States.

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The EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child recognises childrens rights to participate and play.

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The fight against social exclusion is one of the key commitments of the European Union and its Member States.
Social exclusion damages the well-being of citizens and hampers their ability to express themselves and participate in society.

ACKNOWLEDGING:

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The European Unions joint efforts through Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps to strengthen social cohesion, 5 promote the active participation and inclusion of young people, promote non-formal and informal learning and contribute to enhancing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field within the European Union.

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The European Unions contribution to quality youth work development through the EU youth programmes, particularly through youth worker mobility and cooperation partnerships that also support strategic development of practices, pedagogy and tools, the European Youth Work Agenda and through the work of the Strategic National Agencies Cooperation SNAC partnerships Europe Goes Local and Democracy Reloading, the SALTO Resource Centres, among others.

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The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
In particular the right to engage in play and recreational activities enshrined in Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the corelating obligation of States Parties to respect and promote this right and to encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for recreational and leisure activity.
For an overview of existing policy instruments that have contribute to the development of this systematic and sustainable approach, see, in the annex to this resolution, Schild, H., Mapping Existing European Youth Policy Strategies on Youth Work, a publication issued under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the Field of Youth 2024.
In addition, the 11 European Youth Goals reflect the views of young Europeans on youth work that are of relevance to the present resolution.
Recital 1 of Regulation EU 2021/817.

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