Introducing, the European Youth Forum's latest edition of our annual magazine - YO!Mag! This edition we have focused on Activism. For some people, it conjures up images of mass protests, demonstrations and placards with strong political slogans. For others, activism might bring to mind certain viral campaigns, social movements or even simply signing a petition. What underpins all acts of activism, however, is more than simply standing against something. It is fundamentally about bringing change.

This toolkit aims at supporting European Youth Capitals in such an important policy coordination exercise. In line with the European Youth Forum’s goal of mainstreaming youth across different policy areas it is also important to take a consideration other important policies and trends such as human rights cities, sustainable development, building inclusive societies etc.

With the new EU Youth Strategy being currently negotiated in the Council of the EU, the momentum is here to build an impactful and open EU Youth Dialogue - a youth participation instrument that will succeed the Structured Dialogue with young people as of 2019.

In May 2018 the European Commission launched a Communication on a new EU Youth Strategy for time period 2019-2027. For the first time it proposed to establish EU Youth Coordinator. This paper proposes concrete measures to shape the EU Coordinator's position, so it can serve for youth policy coordination within the European Commission.

This document lays down the position of the European Youth Forum on the new DiscoverEU action for the Erasmus programme 2021-2027. It analyses the proposal from a youth perspective and outlines some concrete proposals as to how to improve the action and make it aligned with the vision of youth organisations for the Youth Chapter of the Erasmus+ successor programme