New challenges call for new ways in supporting young people, Education Minister tells EU counterparts

New challenges call for new ways in supporting and empowering young people and youth organisations, Cyprus Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Prodromos Prodromou has told his EU counterparts, noting that in Cyprus the Cyprus Youth Board has launched a working group of civil society and public authorities so that practical ways of helping youth organisations can be promoted and that similar working groups could operate at European level.

Prodromou was speaking during an informal teleconference of EU Youth Ministers convened by the Croatian EU presidency, a Ministry of Education press release says.

Ministers discussed how the coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on young people`s access to services as well as about the challenges the pandemic poses in youth employment.

(CNA)

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