About the Programme

Youth in Africa stand on the forefront of intercultural exchange, fight against poverty, corruption, climate change, green and digital transformation, innovation and peace and reconciliation in conflict areas. They are better connected to the rest of the world and many champion civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights. Similarly, young Europeans show increasing awareness of global issues and interest in exchanging and cooperating with young Africans and vice versa.

Innovative participatory approaches are needed to facilitate engagement, beyond the privileged, connected youth, with those from different social strata and rural and urban communities. To realise their full potential, youth should gain access to opportunities (education, employment, entrepreneurship, etc.) and should be more engaged, empowered and connected.

The European Union and the African Union put forward the AU-EU Youth Lab, a new programme that builds on the success of the AU-EU Youth Plug-In initiative and the AU-EU Youth Cooperation Hub and results from extensive consultations with hundreds of young people from both continents.

PILLAR 1

PARTICIPATION &
REPRESENTATION

Advancing youth participation and
representation in policy and decision making processes.

PILLAR 2

EMPORWERMENT &
CAPACITY BUILDING

Providing training and capacity building
to young people and youth organisations.

PILLAR 3

YOUTH
INITIATIVES

Providing financial/grant support
to youth-led initiatives.

Our projects will be targeting 14 countries in Africa and 1 in Europe for in-person activities. 12 African countries and all EU member states will be eligible for our projects’ diverse funding mechanisms.

OUR LABS

AU-EU Youth Voices Lab

Objective 1

To ensure that policy-making and decision-making processes around the Africa-EU Partnership are more youth responsive and inclusive and that youth participation and representation is stronger.

Objective 2

To empower and enhance the capacity of young people, youth organisations and key stakeholders active around the AU-EU partnership to advocate for young people’s concerns and priorities at cross-continental, continental, regional and national levels.

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AU-EU Youth Action Lab

Objective 3

To create joint African-European youth-led cooperation activities that pursue long term impact and positive change. These are supported by the award of small grants to innovative ideas in coordination with pilot dialogue and engagement mechanisms led by young people.

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