EU Youth Strategy – The Commission Communication 'Engaging, Connecting and Empowering young people: a new EU Youth Strategy' proposes to focus on the following areas of action: ENGAGE: Fostering young people's participation in civic and democratic life, CONNECT: Connecting young people across the European Union and beyond to foster voluntary engagement, learning mobility, solidarity and intercultural understanding, EMPOWER: Supporting youth empowerment through quality, innovation and recognition of youth work. This new EU Youth Strategy is valid for the time of 2019 to 2027. It includes some novelties: A) A new EU Youth coordinator will channel voices of young people in the Commission, thus allowing young people to contribute to shaping EU policies across areas; the coordinator will strengthen the dialogue with young people, notably via the European Youth Portal and the EU Youth Strategy Platform. B) A renewed EU Youth Dialogue to take youth concerns better into account and ensure wider outreach, including through innovative formats; C) Tracking of EU spending for youth in main funding programmes; D) An agenda for youth work to further improve its quality, innovation and recognition and to allow other sectors to capitalise on the potential of non-formal learning; and E) A clearer link between EU youth policy implementation and related programme activities in Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.

Importantly, it includes the 11 Youth Goals, which were developed in a participatory method, as an Annex.

Ref: https://ec.europa.eu/youth/news/eu-youth-strategy-adopted_de