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Official justification for awarding the 2024 Max van der Stoel Award to Natur og Ungdom from Norway.

The OSCE Presence in Albania is launching a new call for committed and motivated young people from all over Albania to join its Youth Advisory Group (YAG). 8 young individuals aged 18-25 years will be selected as new members of its Youth Advisory Group in the upcoming months. They will support the existing YAG members to prop up Presence's efforts to integrate a youth perspective into its planning and programmatic activities.

This document is a product of Youth Trail No.8 “What Can Youth Do On Environmental Governance” activity in light of the "Youth in Focus II: Promoting the role of Youth in Peace and Security in Albania" project implemented by OSCE Presence in Albania. Young activists from the Western Balkans (WB) gathered in Tirana in October 2022. They built their capacities, discussed with various stakeholders and worked on designing some key actions and measures on how to expand youth engagement in environmental governance in the region.

Recognizing young people as key partners for positive change and promoters of mutual understanding and with a view to ensuring that the concerns, needs, priorities, aspirations, and vulnerabilities of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are adequately identified and considered, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby publishes a Call for Applications for volunteers- members of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Youth Advisory Group (YAG).

December 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country achieved this milestone thanks to the hard work of BiH's citizens who began rebuilding and healing communities divided and impacted by the war. Many of those rebuilding BiH were, and continue to be, young people born in the 1990s and after. That same December, to commemorate this important anniversary, we asked young people across Bosnia and Herzegovina what the last two and a half decades meant to them. Six months later, in June 2021, we issued another call to the country's youth to imagine – and to convey through their art – what the subsequent 25 years of a peaceful and prosperous future should look like.

The OSCE Presence in Albania, is launching a Call for Applications for #8YouthTrail: What Youth Can Do on Environmental Governance?, to be held 23-27 October 2022 in Tirana and Shkodra, Albania. This eight edition of the Youth Trail is being organized in the frame of the project: “Youth in Focus II – Promoting the Role of Youth in Peace and Security in Albania. Young people (18-30 years old) from the region, active in the environmental field can apply to be part of this Youth Trail and discuss and learn on environmental challenges, environmental governance as well as their active role in democratic processes related to environment.

In April 2022, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine conducted the facilitation meeting “ Youth Dialogues about the War Aftermath. The Beginning ” in Lviv. This was a side event of the international conference «War Aftermath:

On the occasion of the Peace Week 'Nothing about us, without us: A shot towards the future'