Friday, 25 October to Saturday 27 October 2007 / Budapest - Hungary

Euro-Med seminar «The role of youth participation and civil society in youth policy and youth work development in the broader Euro-Med Context» organised in the framework of the Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe and the European Commission and in co-operation with the League of Arab States between the 24-27 October 2007 at the European Youth Center Budapest of Council of Europe (http://www.eycb.coe.int/)

Participants
Nawaf AlMaskati / Bahrain - Bahrain Child Centre http://www.bahrainchild.org/ & Bahrain Youth Parliament http://www.byp.bh/
Abdullah Abdulsalam Al-Thawr / Yemen – Democracy School http://www.yemenchildren.org/
Maya Georges Boutros / Lebanon - Arab Thought Foundation http://www.arabthought.org/
Rasha Fityan / Palestine - Ta'awon, Conflict Resolution Institute http://www.taawon4youth.org/ & http://www.youthmediator.org/

Roa'a Khudairi / Jordan - Save the Children www.savethechildren.org/countries/middle_east_eurasia/jordan.asp

Mohamed Yassein Hussein / Egypt - Youth-led group 3rd Eye initiative http://youthinheart.net/
Sarah Zaami / Morocco - Soliya http://www.soliya.net/
Amin Zayani / Tunisia (Egypt) – Blogger http://www.7keyet-bouha.blogspot.com/
Foued El Ouni / Tunisia - Observatoire National de la jeunesse http://www.onj.nat.tn/
Khalil Raihani / France (& Morocco) - Association Migration Solidarité et Échanges pour le Développement (AMSED) http://www.amsed.fr/
Natalia Sacristian Romero / Spain - Asociacion para la Integracion Progreso de las Culturas (AIPC) – PANDORA http://www.aipc-pandora.org/
Cilly Kurkhaus / Germany - Youth office of the city of Leipzig http://www.leipzig.de/jugendamt/
Esther Gelabert / France (& Spain) - Institut National de la Jeunesse et de l’ Education Populaire (INJEP) http://www.injep.fr/
Gisele Kirby / UK - SALTO Euro-Med http://www.salto-youth.net/euromed/
Simona Rossi / Italy - MSOI Movement for the International Student Organization http://www.msoi.org/
Emmy Bornemark / Sweden – Ungdomsstyrelsen – The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs http://www.ungdomsstyrelsen.se
Fredrik Engstrom / Sweden - Landsrådet för Sveriges Ungdomsorganisationer (LSU) http://www.lsu.se/
Simon Klein / Sweden - Umea Central Youth Council, Umea Municipality
Johan Lindgren / Sweden - Youth Ombudsman, Umea Municipality
Tiberiu Iacomi / Romania - Save the children http://www.salvaticopiii.ro/
Borislava Daskalova / Bulgaria - Euro-Mediterranean Network for Youth Trafficking Prevention (EMNYTP) http://www.youth-trafficking.net
Zoran Ilieski / FYROM - Coalition of Youth Organizations SEGA http://www.sega.org.mk/
Ali-Oktay KOC / Turkey - At European Youth Centre Budapest

Christina Kontaxi / Greece - Mediterranean SOS Network http://www.medsos.gr/

Speakers & Guests
Dr Atef Odaybat / Secretary General of the Supreme Youth Council in Jordan
Dr Iman El Kafas / Board Member of National Youth Council of Egypt
H.E. Nancy Bakir / Under Secretary General of the League of Arab States
Antje Rothemund / Executive Director of the European Youth Centre Budapest
Giuseppe Porcaro / European Youth Forum http://www.youthforum.org/
Dr Abdel Baset Abdel Muty / Egypt
Dr Helmut Willems / Luxemburg University http://www.uni.lu
Rui Gomes / Head of Unit Education and Training, Directorate of Youth and Sport, Council of Europe
Yara Shahin / Egypt

Preparatory Group
Khaled Louhini, Ghada El Shazly, Haythem Kamel / League of Arab States http://www.poplas.org/youth/
Marta Medlinska, Philipp Boetzelen, Viktoria Karpatska, Hans-Joachim Schild / Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe & the European Commission http://www.coe.int/euromed & http://www.youth-knowledge.net
Iris Bawidamann / Council of Europe - European Youth Centre Strasbourg