On 11-12 March, ENGSO Youth participated in the Council of Europe (CoE) Workshop “Youth Perspectives in action: Council of Europe’s Partial Agreements after the Reykjavik Summit”. 

Aligned with the political guidance post-Reykjavik summit of including the youth perspective in the intergovernmental work of the Council of Europe, the meeting gathered several Member State representatives and partners to brainstorm on possible cooperation between the Partial Agreement on Youth Mobility through the Youth Card and other Council of Europe Partial Agreements, including the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS).

Specifically on Youth and Sport, EPAS representatives informed the participants about Youth and Sport Initiatives developed by EPAS, namely: 

• Outreach to university sports students (Via ANESTAPS);
• Youth Initiative at Ministerial Conference Porto 2024 and foreseen for Monaco 2026 (indicative);
• Breakfast roundtable on women’s health and sport;
• HEY – Human Rights Education for Youth, a programme launched by the North-South Centre in 2024, for which they are currently developing a value-based and integrity course as a joint initiative between the EU and CoE. 

EPAS representatives also highlighted possible areas of cooperation in this regard:

• Diversity conference October 2025;
• Synergies with the consultative committee;
• Forum on Sport and Human Rights, December 2025.

Whilst the participants congratulated EPAS work with regards to the Youth Initiative of the Ministerial Conference in Porto, also underlined the importance of its sustained continuation in order to achieve a real inclusion of the youth perspective within the work of the CoE Sports Division and, more concretely EPAS. 

Other considerations were put forward towards this endeavour, such as the inclusion of Sport-related information and discounts on sport-related service provision within the mobile app of the European Youth Card. If implemented, such measures have the potential to attract more young people into sports and physical activity.