Brussels, 8-9 March 2012 - Africa-EU Partnership

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The JTF noted the January 2012 AU Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Dec. 407 (XVIII)and requested the representative of South Africa to present the Radio Astronomy proposal tothe next JEG826
Bilateral meetings1. Youth CooperationI. ParticipantsAfrica: Dr. Raymonde Agossou (Head of Human Resource and Youth Development Division,AUC)EU: Vania Freitas (European Youth Forum) Karin Lopatta-Loibl/Artur Payer/Deirdre Lennan(European Commission, DG EAC).Progress achievedParticipants updated each other on recent initiatives taking place in the field of Youth andexchanged policy documents.The July 2011 African Union Summit clearly put Youth on the political agenda and hasidentified three main recommendations: employable skills development for youth, TVET withemployable skills and entrepreneurship and the Youth Volunteers Corp. Ratification of theAfrican Youth Charter (currently done by 28 MS) and its implementation and investing inyouth as a way to achieve the MDGs are also the way forward.Work has already started on mechanisms for increasing youth employment (in cooperationwith ILO and AFDB amongst others) for looking at youth employment through Initiatives 6,7 and 8 of the Mobility, Migration and Employment Partnership.The Africa dimension of the "Youth in the World" action field of the EU Youth Strategy incooperation with the Council of Europe (CoE) in the framework of the EU-CoE Youthcooperation partnership was explained.The importance of the participation of youth in democratic life and dialogue and theopportunities offered by the Youth in Action Programme were discussed. Support has alsobeen doubled in the EuroMed Youth programme following the Arab Spring.Participants discussed the African Volunteering Corps and also activities taking place in theframework of the EU-CoE Youth cooperation partnership, in particular those involving theEuropean Youth Forum and their Pan-African Youth Union counterparts.Initiatives in 2012 and follow-up points• Institutional follow up to the Africa-EU Youth Summits combined with the 3 rdTraining Course for Youth Leaders of the African Diaspora living in Europe, Braga,21-27 May• Africa Youth Day 1-3 November27
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