We are on a mission to empower and support progressive-minded youth in Eastern Europe.
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Call for Participants - Study Session [CLOSED]
Apply for the Study Session “Breaking the Barriers - Green Economics and Youth Political Participation in Eastern Europe”.
The event will take part in Budapest from 4th to 9th of November! -
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New Publication: Security Policy Toolkit
The toolkit is created as the follow-up to the “Green Perspectives on European Security” Study Session. It is the result CDN’s work on security and as such can be a basis for progressive organisations to create new political documents on security.
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Call for Host Organisations: CDN Activities in 2025
The Executive Committee is hereby announcing an open call for the hosts of the 2025 General Assembly (GA) and Resilience Building Summer Camp.
Deadline: 24th November 2024 23:59 CEST.
Upcoming events
How we work
Capacity Building and Education
We provide comprehensive training, political education, and opportunities for knowledge exchange to foster growth and impact. We focus on political maturity, organisational development, and key topics such as climate crisis, social justice, security, and democracy.
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Annual Work Plan is our leading series of non-formal education educational events, consisting of various forms of activity, such as summer camp, seminars, and local actions.
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Study session is annual international educational event organised together with Council of Europe’s Youth Department. We look closely at a specific political issue (eg. economics in 2024, security in 2023, urban policy in 2022) and together with participants reducing relevant documents as toolkits or manifestos.
Study Session 2024.
Network
We connect and bring together progressive youth across Eastern Europe from Prague to Baku and from Skopje to Riga.
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General Assembly is the highest decision-making body of our Network. It elects Executive Committee which leads the network throughout the year. GA adopts the most important documents, such as statutes, political platform and activity/financial plan. It is also a place for the annual meeting of all network members to bring together all the perspectives.
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We work in three regions: Balkans, South Caucasus and Centre-East Europe, facilitating enhanced exchange between activists from the specific region and focusing more on its particular issues. We also bring together activists facing similar problems by organising cross-regional meetings, eg. for the political parties' youth wings, activists from restrictive regimes.
Eastern European Perspective
We bring Eastern European Perspective in the European (Young) Green and progressive movement by providing space to Eastern European activists to talk about their issues and using our platform to advocate for them.
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Our digital events are the space for spread the information and discuss the political developments in Eastern Europe. Our most notably series is ElectionVision, where we talked about the recent elections in our region.
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Statements are the official political positions issued by Executive Committee advocating for the progressive agenda in the context of recent political developments.