News and press releases

BERLIN, 11 November 2016- As the final event in a series of outreach activities to young people across the OSCE region in 2016, Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship, in co-operation with the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe, held a two-day youth conference in Berlin on 10 and 11 November. Thirty participants between the ages of 16 and 25 years from OSCE participating States gathered in the Federal Foreign Office to debate different notions of security in the OSCE region from a youth perspective...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized its second public debate contest on 2 November 2016 for young people, bringing together 98 high school students and their teachers for a debate in Balti.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 29 October 2016 – An OSCE-supported conference on the development and sustainability of Youth Councils in Kyrgyzstan began today in Osh city bringing together some 55 young activists, including the chairpersons and leaders of 13 Territorial Youth Councils of Osh, the Youth Co-ordination Council of Tokmok city, the representatives of seven districts of Osh and activists from Batken, Chui and Jalal-Abad provinces.

Four recipients of the Best Student Awards in this year's Model OSCE, which was organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova, travelled to Vienna from 18 to 22 October 2016 for a study trip to the OSCE Secretariat as a part of their prize...

The key factors and decision-making that go into choosing a career path were the issues up for discussion at the second debate tournament for high school students, organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 22 to 23 October 2016 in Vadul-lui-Voda, a town by the Dniester/Nistru River...

SARAJEVO, 21 October 2016 – Some 40 law, sociology and security studies students completed today in Sarajevo the second Youth and Security School, organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Preventing and countering violent extremism in Albania was the focus of an OSCE-organized conference for some 100 representatives of religious communities, local and central government agencies, civil society and students held on 12 October 2016 in Elbasan, Albania...