As experts in the field of minority youth in Europe YEN expresses the interests, ideas and demands of youth from the YEN network in a variety of ways. Publications are one of them.

This report was developed as the final step in a three-year project – the Minority Messengers

Project run by YEN from 2018 until the end of 2020. The overall aim of the project was to empower minority youth to raise awareness on issues and topics important to them as members of minorities in Europe. They form the basis for this report, on which a group of volunteers worked together, to create as the last part of the Minority Messengers Project in 2020. The report provided the opportunity to foster critical thinking processes and empower minority youth to be part of the participatory process through:

• a) developing their sense of ownership of the process by bringing and incorporating their insights and experiences in the process, and
• b) making them feel heard by creating an opportunity to make their insights accessible to European institutions and other youth organisations in a sustainable way.

The booklet is a guide in project management and inspiration for youth organisations. It describes step by step how to create your project: project management theory, funding opportunities and other tricks and tips. To demonstrate the creation of a project from the beginning and possible challenges that can occur, we described the process of our Podcast. With this booklet, we want to encourage the youth in our network to “make some noise” and inspire them to start planning projects again. We want to enable young people from national, ethnic and linguistic minorities to take the initiative, reflect on and claim their rights and support them in creating projects, that address the topics that are important for them.

The toolkit is designed to be used in workshops, seminars or projects with young people, dealing with the topic of youth participation and using the methods of non-formal education. In it, you will find an introduction to the concept of youth participation, explanations of selected terminology, methods and activities which will help you explore this subject, as well as a collection of other resources that might be helpful when dealing with youth participation.

The „YEN White Paper on Minority Rights,” has the following goals:

• to call attention to the existing (and long-standing) problems faced by minority youth;
• to develop a new strategy for the development of our network;
• to present demands, advice, and measures for state and non-state organizations from the local to the international level, in the interest of improving the situation of autochthonous minorities.

The White Paper is:

• a political instrument to influence decision-makers and to articulate YEN´s standpoints on the themes of Social Inclusion, Language and Education, the Roma Minority and Volunteering.
• an internal instrument. It is an expression of YEN´s self-conception and vision as a European network, which contains a collection of ideas that shall support YEN and its member organization in implementing our goals.