• 2025-11-18
• |  Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tirana, Skopje, Pristina

REGIONAL CONFERENCE Western Balkan Youth and EU: Shaping Our Common Future

Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe – RYDE

One regional conference - five cities - one vision:
Belgrade · Sarajevo · Skopje · Tirana · Pristina

The regional conference “Western Balkan Youth and EU: Shaping Our Common Future”, within the framework of the project “Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe – RYDE” (2023–2026), and with the support of the European Commission, will be held on 18–19 November 2025 in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tirana, Skopje, and Pristina.

Key topics:

• Bridge to Europe: Western Balkans Youth in Reform Processes
• Youth Employment in AI Era: Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkans – challenges and opportunities?
• Youth Well-being in Focus: Health, Housing, Culture
• Youth in the Digital Landscape: Security, Trust and Resilience
• Youth and Nature: A Partnership for a Sustainable Green Future

The conference and the project are a joint initiative of the Center for Democracy Foundation and six partner organizations from the Western Balkans.

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The regional conference will be organized within the framework of the Regional Youth Dialogue for Europe (RYDE) project, which is implemented with the support of the European Union. The project is carried out by the Center for Democracy Foundation, Belgrade (as the project coordinator), and partner organizations: the Academy for European Integration and Negotiations from Tirana (AIEN); the Kosovar Stability Initiative from Pristina (IKS); the Network of Progressive Initiatives from Sarajevo (NPI); the NGO Info Center from Skopje (NGO IC); the Regional Academy for Democratic Development from Novi Sad (ADD); and the Youth Act Center from Tirana (YA). The project is funded by the European Union.

Center for Democracy Foundation