Youth of European Nationalities (YEN) is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring fair and inclusive participation across its governance, activities, and decision-making processes.
Minority Rights
are Human Rights
Who are we
Youth of European Nationalities (YEN) is the largest network of youth organisations of autochthonous, national and linguistic minorities (later referred to as “minorities”) in Europe.
Minority youth organisations are vital actors of civil society, spaces of democratic life and youth participation offering unique opportunities for self-representation on local and regional levels.
Under the slogan “Minority Rights Are Human Rights”, YEN represents the interests of minority youth on a European level and aims to support the personal development of young minority members to become active citizens and changemakers.
YEN aims to create a network of solidarity, a safe space for reflection and opportunities for peer learning between minority youth living in different parts of Europe.
YEN is run and led by young people, for young people, and it sees itself as a self-determined and self-organized youth organization, whose activity is carried out and determined by youth.
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AUTUMN SEMINAR 2026 – CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Is your community’s story getting lost in the scroll? It’s time to change how the world sees minority cultures online.
European Youth Forum Seminar: Reflections from Mollina, Spain by Ose Dettmann
From 3–7 October 2025, I had the chance to join the European Youth Forum Seminar in sunny Mollina, Spain. The seminar brought together young people from all over Europe for five intense days of learning, reflection, and connection.
Our Autumn Seminar Zine is here!
During our Autumn Seminar “Visibility through Creativity”, the participants Briana-Maria Boniș, Petra Štrajn, Iwo Miśkowiak, Jowan Nute and Aaron Clwyd Jones of the Creative Writing workshop came together to create something truly special – ...