Acknowledging the value and considerations of the first round-table and taking into account the results of an external evaluation carried out by independent experts, the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of Youth and the League of Arab States had agreed to organise a second round-table on youth policy cooperation, open to international and national, governmental and non-governmental partners active in youth policy development and implementation and interested in sharing experiences and in view of mutual learning and future cooperation. This second round-table on youth policy cooperation took place on 22-23 April 2009 at the European Youth Centre in Budapest. It pursued the following objectives:

-    To analyse commonalities, specificities and complementarities between the actions and approaches of the participants and their institutions;

-   To discuss the priority youth issues in the broader Euro-Mediterranean region and the youth policy responses to them;

-  To explore the possibilities of coordination between the partners and to identify the priorities for Euro-Arab and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the youth policy field;

-  To support intercultural dialogue among youth policy actors from the European, Mediterranean and Arab regions.

The participants in the meeting included the League of Arab States, the Anna Lindh Foundation, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Salto-Youth EuroMed Resource Centre, the Euro- Mediterranean Youth Platform, the European Youth Forum, the Council of Europe (the North-South Centre and the Directorate of Youth and Sport), the International Planned Parenthood Federation - Arab World Region and the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth.