European Christian Political Youth Network


The European Christian Political Youth is a political youth organisation that brings together Christian, politically active young people from all over Europe to reinforce Christian politics in Europe. It is the independent youth organization of the European Christian Political Movement.

Background

The ECPYouth, until 2013 known as European Christian Political Youth Network was established in July 2004 in Kortenberg by PerspectieF, Youth of the ChristenUnie and other European Christian political youth organisations, such as the Christian Peoples Alliance Youth. The founding of ECPYouth was one of the results of the International Summer School where young people from all over Europe participated.

Activities

Since the International Summer School in Kortenberg in 2004 summer schools are held annually around a specific theme or political issue and offers participants lectures, workshops and excursions. ECPYN/ECPYouth organized summer schools in 2005 in Lunteren,, in 2006 in Birstonas, in 2007 in Würzburg, in 2008 in Chişinău, in 2009 in Risan, in 2010 in Ohrid, in 2011 in Paris, in 2012 in Zagreb, in 2013 in Helsinki, in 2014 in Brussels, in 2015 in Cambridge, in 2016 in Bern and in 2017 in Odessa.
ECPYouth started to organize winter schools in Lviv in 2011 followed by Esztergom in 2012; and Soest in 2013.
ECPYouth organises Regional Conferences as well in different parts of Europe and youth programs on conferences of the European Christian Political Movement. Regional conferences took place in
Furthermore, ECPYouth organizes study visits. In 2012 a study visit went to Podgorica, Montenegro to study the situation of minorities, especially the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian groups.
In 2012 ECPYouth started an in-depth training program, the ECPYouth Academy, under the title 'Crossroads – Christian Democratic Political Academy'. The first round took place in Timișoara, Romania; Zagreb, Croatia; Kiev, Ukraine; and Soest, Netherlands.
In 2017 ECPYouth started holding bi-annual General Assemblies, instead of annual, one during the summer school and one in February, in the Netherlands. This was accompanied by political cafés, in 2018 on the topic of human trafficking.

Board

Member organisations