The online toolbox includes youth-friendly methods for addressing SDGs 10 and 17 and suggestions for shaping a dialogue between decision-makers and young people.

In addition to the methodological suggestions and the dialogue section, the online toolbox will also contain information for users that will provide a framework for engaging with young people on the project topics – including general information on Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063, as well as the Youth Charter of the African Union.

The online toolbox will be developed in cooperation with Joanna Egger (Social-change.rocks) and will be available as open source in German and English in December 2023.

The Virtual Young South-North Dialogue has already taken place.

From July 5th to 6th, 25 Youth Activists from countries of the African Union
and 15 Youth Activists from Austria exchanged ideas online at the start of the JUUN project.

The results of the exchange serve as a basis for the content of the online toolbox and the resulting workshops for young people and the campaign based on it.

The workshops are aimed at Austrian youth groups from the age of 14 and are intended to enable young people at the local level to engage with SDG 10 and 17, to expand their knowledge and to formulate their concerns and demands.

The workshops will take place between June and November 2023.

Young people from all over Austria and the African Union are consulted on the project topics in workshops and during the Dialog Conference. In this way, their concerns and demands are incorporated directly into the further course of the project.

A group of 12 young representatives of the African Union together with representatives of the Austrian National Youth Council will visit organizations in Austria from 5th to 10th November that deal with topics of Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063.

In addition to the work of the Austrian National Youth Council in general and on the topics of gender mainstreaming and climate in particular, interesting institutions in Vienna and the surrounding area will be visited.

Furthermore, representatives of the African Union will also participate in the dialogue conference and discuss the concerns of young people from African Union countries directly with young people and decision-makers from Austria.

The Dialogue Conference will take place from 8th to 9th November 2023 in Vienna. Young Representatives of the African Union and young people from all over Austria will participate in the conference and discuss the SDGs 10 and 17 in a joint dialogue with policy makers.

The campaign, which will be launched in the fall of 2023, is based on the results and demands of young people that were developed during the workshops and the dialog conference.

Within the framework of the project topic „Strengthening youth participation – reducing inequalities, youth-oriented information will be created on the basis of Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063.

Based on the results of the consultations and the dialogue conference, a joint position paper of youth delegates to the United Nations from Austria and countries of the African Union will be developed.

This position paper will be presented in a side event.

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As a legally anchored representation of the interests of all children and young people in Austria, the Autrian National Youth Council stands up for the rights and concerns of young people.

Therefore, meetings of the Autrian National Youth Council with political decision makers are planned, where results and demands of the workshops and the dialogue conference will be transported.

At the same time, the African Union Envoy on Youth Chido Mpemba will present the concerns of young people to decision-makers in the countries of the African Union.