More than 70 young people, actors, and stakeholders highly engaged in youth-related issues from the WB6 region and the EU have gathered in Berlin, to participate in the Western Balkan Youth Forum which was organised from 31 October to 3 November.  YEAs Desantila Muriqi, Klajdi Kaziu, and Stefan Vukmanovic represented the YEA Network.

The main topic of this year’s Youth Forum included democratization and civic education, youth, peace and security, green agenda and energy security, as well as social economy and solidarity.

The Western Balkans Youth Forum of the Berlin Process 2022 is organized by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office in partnership with Franco-German Youth Office and Crossborder Factory. The Forum is supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Regional Cooperation Council’s Western Balkan Youth Lab project, and a regional project funded by the European Union (EU) Technical Assistance to Civil Society Organisations in the Western Balkans and Turkey (TACSO).The event is designed for representatives of a wide range of relevant actors in charge of youth issues, including umbrella youth organizations of the WB6, youth structures at the EU level, institutions, NGOs, young activists, as well as experts on youth-related topics, and the topics of the Forum from the Western Balkans and the wider Europe.