THE NEW EUROPEAN YOUTH CAPITAL WEBSITE

 

Welcome to the European Youth Capital (EYC) official new website!

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Coinciding with the 5th selection process of the EYC, the European Youth Forum (EYJ), promotor and coordinator of the initiative, created a website on the EYC in order to give the  efforts of the European Youth Capitals and the entire process more visibility and to create a one access information point on the EYC project.

In the website, you will be able to find all the information dealing with the EYC, that is to say all the information about the former EYC (Rotterdam in 2009), the current EYC (Torino 2010) and the future EYCs (Antwerp in 2011, and Braga in 2012).
Moreover, if you are interested in proposing your city as a candidate for the next years, you can inform yourself about all the requirements and find all the documents needed to make an applications.
Finally, the selection procedure of each call can now be followed directly towards this new website. As a matter of fact, you can now see the shortlist with the three finalists of the 2013 EYC call.
What are we really talking about when we mention the European Youth Capital? It is a title awarded to a european city for the period of one year, during which it will be given the chance to develop a diverse program related to youth issues. This project intends not just to raise awareness about youth issues, but also to make institutions conscious of the need to add a youth dimension to the policy-making process. The idea is to go beyond a simple award, and to promote in the long term the participation of young people in the public sphere through the local level, considered as the closest to the citizens, and creating at the same time a bridge between the european and the local level.

 

Discover by yourself all the detailed information in the different sections!
 

Derry , Maribor, Goes and Karlstad //

FOUR cities shortlisted for one title: European Youth Capital 2013

4citiesFour European cities: Derry (United Kingdom); Maribor (Slovenia), Goes (Netherlands) and Karlstad (Sweden). One title: European Youth Capital 2013 (EYC 2013). Their outstanding applications have been selected amongst 11 applications of cities from all over Europe. After the first assessment, an exciting second phase of the selection of the European Youth Capital 2013 is starting!

The four shortlisted cities will have until October 13 the possibility to provide additional information to convince the jury to select them and the European Youth Forum to award them the title. More details about the programme, planned activities, events and policy development will complement the applications and lead to the final selection of the European Youth Capital 2013.

The complete list of applicants to European Youth Capital 2013 are: Antalya, Turkey; Bucharest, Romania; Byron, Greece; Hertogenbosch, Netherlands; Istanbul, Turkey; Karlstad, Sweden; Maribor, Slovenia; Stantu Gheorge, Romania; Goes, Netherlands; Derry, Northern Ireland; Zaragoza, Spain;

Derry , Maribor, Goes and Karlstad's applications all present ambitious programs that go beyond outlining the preparations, implementation and follow up mechanisms for the EYC project. They distinct themselves through including a wide spectrum of stakeholders, imaginative but well balanced vision of cultural, sports events but also emphasizing cooperation with youth civil society and the aim of fostering participatory policies at all levels. Therefore the EYC jury decided to shortlist four instead of the originally planned three cities.

The jury, composed of representatives from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe, the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the Council of European Municipalities and regions, the Advisory Council of Youth, EurActiv, NOW (Think Tank), the University of Montpellier, the Portuguese Youth Council (upcoming EYC 2012), the Local Youth Council of Braga (upcoming EYC 2012) and the European Youth Forum will convene again on November 15 in Brussels and discuss the top shortlisted applications in order to select the European Youth Capital 2013.
The award ceremony will take place during the YFJ General Assembly, on November 18-20. The European Youth Capital is an idea of the European Youth Forum and is arrived at its 5th edition. Since the first European Youth Capital 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, it has been growing in attention ever since. In the past years, the European Youth Forum has awarded the title EYC 2010 to Torino (Italy), EYC 2011 to Antwerp (Belgium) and EYC 2012 to Braga (Portugal).