(ANS – Brussels) – On the occasion of the “First European Vocational Skills Week” (5-9 December), organized by the European Commission to “improve the image and attractiveness of vocational education and training”, “Don Bosco International” in collaboration with the Episcopates of the European Community (COMECE), organizes for tomorrow, December 6th, in Brussels a debate on “What Solutions for Youth Unemployment in Europe? The perspective of the Catholic Church”.

(ANS - Rome) - A round-table conference on the theme "Salesian Solidarity during the Great War (1915-1918)", was held at the FMA Generalate in Rome on 30 November. It was organized by the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), in collaboration with its new Study Centre.

(ANS - Bruxelles) - On 23rd and 24th of November, Don Bosco Youth-Net participated in an expert seminar of ‘the EU-CoE Youth Partnership’. This is a cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the youth field. The Expert seminar “Journeys to a new life” was organised by this cooperation in order to gather knowledge concerning the role of youth work for the inclusion of young refugees and migrants in Europe. By opening space for researchers, policy makers, youth workers and refugees to discuss this topic the aim is to find possibilities to improve youth work and its role in social inclusion in the three dimensions research, policy and practice.