This #YouEU digital platform for promoting youth e-participation acts as a digital transnational public sphere that brings together youth from all over Europe to communicate, share issues and build claims together. Its purpose is to function as a learning, collaborative, deliberative space among youth to learn by doing and participating in the EU democratic life.

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The #YouEU digital platform is directly addressed to youth, but it can also benefit youth workers and Civil Society Organisations’ staff. It is an output developed by the European project #YouEU, which aims to reinvigorate the relationship of European youth with the EU and promote active youth participation in the EU democratic life by harnessing the potential of digital tools and promoting e-participation.

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A well-informed young generation confidently engaging with digital democracy tools and making its claims open to the public sphere will foster active EU citizenship and will build a sense of European identity.  The                                               

states that participation of any community in democratic life is about more than voting or standing for election. “Participation and active citizenship is about having the right, the means, the space and the opportunity and where necessary the support to participate in and influence decisions and engaging in actions and activities so as to contribute to building a better society.”