The Youth Regional Network was created in November 2008 in Wiesbaden - Germany for and by young people. It aims at making closer links between European issues and citizens and puts forward the importance of assuring youth participation in civic and political life.

During the meeting young participants will focus on the topic of  Youth Employment and identify difficulties they face when entering the labour market.

The main focus of the third meeting will be to create a tangible means of facilitating the first employment among all young people in wider Europe. Therefore during this meeting young participants will have the opportunity to explore various ways of fostering youth employment in their home regions.  They will also have a chance to  contribute to the first tool helping regional politicians improve their policies targeting young employees by contributing to the first Youth Peer Review.

At the kind invitation of Euro Disney and the region of Ile-de-France there will be capacity for 150 young participants between 18-30 years old who come from European regions (maximum two young representatives per region). Accommodation will be provided. AER President Michèle Sabban is kindly asking regional authorities to enable young people from regions to participate by supporting them financially (regions are kindly asked to cover the travel costs, or part of travel costs, of young representatives from their regions).

Deadline for applications is 1st December 2009

For more information: http://www.aer.eu/events/committee-3-culture-education-interregional-cooperation/2009/parisconference.html