Under the UNCRC, the participation of children and young people in decisions that affect their lives is a basic right and as a result, listening to children and young people and feeding their opinions into policy debates at EU level is a key goal for Eurochild.
To explore how this can be done in a meaningful way, several Eurochild members are working together within the group Child and Youth Participation. Members of the group are working to define participation, understand how it works best, apply it to their organisations, and bring it into Eurochild's work.
An important step was made last October, when young people from the UK, Cyprus, Germany and Hungary gathered in Cardiff for a members' exchange seminar to lead workshops on participation. One month later, they met again at Eurochilds' annual conference where they led a panel discussion.
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