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This initiative empowers young Europeans to actively engage in shaping the EU’s economic and political future through inclusive, high-level platforms where they will meet with EU decision-makers, experts, and industry leaders and co-create youth-led policy recommendations. The consortium is led by Stand For Europe and composed of partners from all over Europe (A Seat At The Table, Mano Europa, The European Academy Berlin, the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation, Group of the European Youth for Change, PILCROW, the Cyprus Youth Clubs Organization, and FELCOS Umbria).

As part of the Global Democracy Coalition’s 2026 Global Fora, EDYN is honored to host the European Regional Dialogue under the title: “Defending Democracy in the Age of AI: Protecting Electoral Integrity Across Europe” in Prague on May 19th, 2026.

Having achieved a perfect score of 15/15 in the Commission’s evaluations, EDYN HQ will receive part of a 4 million euro grant from early 2025 to the end of 2027. The funds will be shared with our Consortium partners: Austrian Institute of Technology (Consortium Lead), Strategic Design Scenarios, WeDo, Missions Publiques, Fraunhofer Institute of Systems and Innovation Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, European Partnership for Democracy, European University Institute, European Youth Forum, and Make.org.

This grant will enable EDYN HQ to organize workshops, policy debates, youth-led advocacy campaigns, and engagements with institutions and policymakers across all EDYN country chapters and European capitals.

The international Erasmus+ project You(th)&Dem, led by the Czech organisation Forum 2000, founded by Václav Havel, connects young people from Central Europe to explore new ways of strengthening youth voices in public life. Through workshops, simulations, and dialogue with political leaders, participants develop their own local advocacy projects and engage at both national and European levels.

This insitutional grant supports EDYN in furthering its mission to empower young pro-democracy civic and political leaders in Central and Eastern Europe to equips our members with the skills, platforms, and resources they need to engage effectively in EU policy-making, promote open societies, and make their voices heard in European participatory democracy.

The project will empower EDYN members in Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia to advocate for greater youth participation in their countries’ EU integration process. After deepening their knowledge of how to run effective advocacy campaigns during three capacity-building trainings, participants will lead their own advocacy campaigns on the youth’s role in enlargement negotiations. They will engage with institutions and policymakers responsible for EU-related reforms, and they will reach the public through an online awareness campaign, which will feature content tailored to local nuances and in local languages.

This project aims to strengthen democratic resilience across EDYN’s region through two initiatives: a roundtable bringing together young political leaders, civil society actors, media professionals, and experts to address the impact of disinformation and polarisation on democratic systems, followed by two follow-up trainings in Slovakia focused on depolarisation and conflict management skills. The Prague roundtable will provide participants with a cross-regional understanding of how disinformation and polarisation erode institutional trust, social cohesion, and cooperation among democratic actors. Building on these insights, the Slovakia-based trainings will equip civically and politically active young people – including participants from the Prague dialogue – with practical tools to communicate across differences, navigate conflict, and counter polarising narratives in their local contexts.

EDYN HQ is administering a €500K grant until late 2025 with partners like DYPALL (Consortium Lead), Assembly of the European Regions, Europiamo, Nordland, YEPP Europe, and SQ LEARN. Activities include EU publications featuring EDYN success stories, a study visit to Bratislava and Vienna, participation in a Summer Academy for Young Leaders in Norway, study trips to Paris and Brussels, an advocacy trip to Strasbourg, and a final conference in Portugal. These projects aim to empower EDYN youth in policy-making and civil society, influencing future European policies.