The European Christian Political Youth (ECPYouth) is a political youth organisation that brings together
Christian, politically active young people from all over Europe to reinforce
Christianpolitics 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 (ECPYN) was established in July 2004 in
Kortenberg (Belgium) by
PerspectieF, Youth of the
ChristenUnie (Netherlands) and other European Christian political youth organisations, such as the
Christian Peoples Alliance Youth (United Kingdom). The founding of ECPYouth was one of the results of the International Summer School where young people from all over Europe participated.
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;
Kyiv,
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.
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