Following up on the successful Youth Workshops in 2020 and 2021, the ESDN Office developed a Concept for a more permanent youth involvement in the ESDN, based on desk research, interviews with youth delegates and observations at the workshops. The Concept for an ESDN Youth Network can be downloaded below.
In 2022, the ESDN held a physical Youth Workshop in Berlin on 2-3 September with a virtual getting-to-know meeting in June. 21 Youth Delegates from 13 countries met the German State Secretary for Consumer Protection, Dr. Christiane Rohleder, received several short expert inputs and then discussed the three main topics:
Some of the delegates were invited to present their thoughts at the ESDN Conference 2022, the 20th ESDN Workshop, and to the ESDN Executive Committee.
A look at the history of the ESDN reveals that ESDN Workshops have played a prominent role in facilitating networking between European SD practitioners and policy advisors. This section of the website provides a one-stop-shop documentation of all ESDN Workshops so far. Please click on one of the Workshops for more details: