Four hundred youth aged from 18 to 30, from the 45 member countries of the Council of Europe but also from Asia, Africa and Latin America, will meet in Strasbourg from 5 to 9 May to discuss “Europe, youth and globalization”. The meeting is being promoted by the Council of Europe and will be held in its headquarters in Strasbourg. It will include debates, testimonies and moments of celebration. Held in the immediate aftermath of EU enlargement and on the eve of the Festival of Europe, the event has as its slogan: “How big is your world?”. It will “enable the participants say the organizers to better understand the challenges of globalization, not to passively suffer it, but to become its active protagonists”. Democratic governance, the political participation of the young, human rights, culture, traditions and “diversity”, sustainable development, peace, education and work “will be some of the issues tackled not just by experts, but especially through the experience of the young themselves”, who come from the world of youth clubs, universities and civil society. A village-forum will be organised in the park facing the headquarters of the Council of Europe on the afternoon of Thursday 6 May.
