Public policies are created on the basis of medium- and long-term strategies that aim to achieve specific effects in a particular area of public life. Proposed solutions very often, due to their long-term effects, directly and indirectly affect young people, including outside the areas that are most associated with this age group (educational law, social law, higher education). In recent years, both in Poland and around the world, a new field of public policies has emerged - youth policy, which ...

Youth participation in social and political life is the theme of the Be Seen Be Heard campaign, which aims to increase young people's participation in politics and help make their voices heard in all spheres of public life. The Body Shop International, in cooperation with the UN Secretary General's Office of the Envoy for Youth Affairs, conducted research and created a report outlining how and why young people are involved in political decision-making, and what challenges they face. For the pur ...

We are pleased to announce that we are launching the "Youth Interventions" project! Our project focuses on two areas of youth social life in Poland: youth social participation (especially within youth councils) and the labor market. In 2021, President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda signed an amendment to local government laws, strengthening the position of youth councils across Poland. Since then, youth county councils and youth provincial assemblies have gained their statutory basis. A ...