The YCDN Strategy
Please have a look at the YCDN Strategy for the next years: YCDN_Strategy
The Budapest Declaration
Please find the outcome of the Budapest Meeting in June 2011 here: YCDN_Declaration_Budapest_2011
Mission Statement
The Youth Citizens Danube Network (YCDN) is an international non-governmental non-profit youth organization aimed at promoting diversity among young people from the Danube region by providing them with opportunities to exchange their knowledge, experience, opinions and views.
The YCDN functions in line with the principles of equality, tolerance, inclusion, solidarity and active participation as the European Commission stated in 2003.
Main goals
- Facilitate and promote exchange of ideas and experience among Danube Youth
- Provide Danube Youth with means of voicing their opinion and influencing national and regional policies
- Advocate for mutual understanding, diversity and respect of human rights
- Contribute to minority inclusion policies
- Promote the idea of European integration and cooperation
- Increase the participation of Danube Youth in society
Target countries
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Further Information
Read more about the European Union Strategy for Danube Region which was passed by the Council on December 8th in 2010.
In July 2010 a first YCDN declaration was set up in Novi Sad, Serbia.
During the first YCDN conference in Budapest from June 17-19 this Budapest Declaration (Draft) was developed.
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The history of the YCDN is also summarized in this publication.
That is what the YCDN is about: United in Diversity. Along the Danube. In Europe.
Novi Sad, Serbia
