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Would it be helpful, as well as the council, to have 'youth focal points' in different countries who help engage the young people in their country to input to Europarc

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meeting with the wider youth community/network to ensure they are representing the wider community.

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Meet quarterly at least. Could have a annual or biannial meeting with the wider youth community/network to ensure they are representing the wider community.

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Member should serve for a fixed length of time, imagine a good 2 to 3 years or more to ensure they gather the skills and experience needed to be confident members.

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There needs to be a core group who have a certain number of hours committed to working on behalf of the youth council.

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Applications should be open, allowing anyone to apply, but then assigned by a panel to ensure there is a spread of skills and experience and geography represented on the council.

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It should be open to all, and they should maybe meet once a month.

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It would need to be clear how the council is feeding into Europarcs wider decisionmaking and not just a mechanism for young people to do (unpaid) work.

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Open to all to join an online community and share thoughts and have conversations, swap links and network for the length of your contract/post in the sector.

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But then for in person meetings offer places to meet in person for meetups.

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Could be selected for 2-3 years, that they have time for projects or implementation of ideas or just function as a link between those who are active or want to become active. But this timeline could also leave space for change for new ones that want to be part of the council.

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Should be open to all which are interested in.

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Perhaps online meetings a few times a year and even a physical meet-up once a year could be a way to maintain activity in the Council.

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To me, the concept 'Youth Council' makes me think of a large community representing many different nationalities where the members share experiences, ideas, and work towards expanding the knowledge of nature preservation.

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Positions could be for 2-3 years ideally.

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Two general meetings a year and a main event to produce a document/video/recommendations/action plan could be interesting for now.

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I don't have much idea about the fairest selection process, but I do think that the council should be made up of thematic referents (example: biodiversity, communication, tourism/sport...), with the idea of ​​supporting EUROPARC's decisions and provide feedback adapted to youth.

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Greater connection between UK & European youth members would be incredible. They could meet every year or two.

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I think we shouldn't be able to make important decisions by ourselves; but when possible be involved in decisions so we can learn from the rangers.
And maybewe could give some input about upcoming decisions.

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I also think we should meet about once a month even though it is difficult because most people are working 5 days a week.

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I think Youth should stay the extension of the Junior Rangers and not be open to everyone.

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In my country (Greece) the opportunities given to young people to work in a protected area are minimal, almost zero. So, in my opinion, it would be more desirable to propose young people participate in the EUROPARC Youth Council or in more general events of this kind who simply love nature and are interested in its protection. Thus I agree that it should be open to everyone and that everyone should be given the opportunity to show interest and from then on a choice should be made based on their knowledge of the subject and their will.

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Discussing decisions of what we can do as a community/group, how to spread the message and so on.

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They should meet at least 4 times a year I think.

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I'm not sure how long they should serve, maybe a year and if they want to continue they can.

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I think it should be open to those who are interested, but if not then selected by those who have maybe been put forward or are interested.

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Discuss climate issues, green careers and opportunities to help those interested in environmentalism.

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Monthly meets to discuss

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Their decisions should relate to representing youth voice for national parks on an international scale, voting on the 'youth stance' for pressing issues such as carbon offsetting, meeting with Board members from national parks to express our views as a youth council, actively looking into solutions for issues facing national parks across the board.

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They should serve for 6-8months then positions reassessed to see if they are still best placed for the role or if another applicant is better suited to take their place.

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I believe there should be an application process so the most suitable youth are selected for the position.

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The Youth Council should be involved in all decisions concerning the Junior Ranger and Youth+ programs. However, it would be great to consult the Council for every policy area.

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About the meetings, it would be ideal to meet at least quarterly. Additional meetings could take place before important events or decisions.

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I'm sure about one thing, there must be a real desire to be part of the Council, to prevent absenteeism. A letter of motivation and yearly renewals could help tackling that problem.

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I think it is important that the council is representative, ensuring that every region has the ability to be represented on the Council where possible.

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My first reaction is they should meet every 2-3 months dependent on what work the Youth Council were doing.

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Helping in developing the information that goes out to all people and also in general involvement in decision making in europarc projects or future targets to get to.

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Do an online meeting every few weeks and when it is possible every few month meet in person.

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For the start they maybe should serve 1-2 years and when it gets bigger maybe longer.

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I think a term of 2 years would fit. Considering the elected nature of the position, I don't think a term limit is necessary.

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The size of the youth council should be considered too. I think a size of 5 or 7 elected members would be representative, without getting too unwieldy.

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The representative of the Youth Council in the EUROPARC Council could be chosen from the sitting members of the Youth Council. As this seat purely and exclusively represents the Youth Council, it does not have to be an elected position (the seat is only allowed to speak for the Youth Council, not for themselves, and all members of the Youth Council have already been elected, and it would otherwise get too messy with election after election).

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Meetings, agendas and minutes of the Youth Council should always be public, unless confidential information is discussed. Anyone interested should be allowed to sit in on Youth Council meetings, unless confidential information is discussed. The Youth Council should be allowed to co-opt one or more members (preferably youth) to support the council, for example a secretary, note taker, archivist, or whatever the Youth Council deems necessary to be able to fulfill their tasks, both long-term for systematic roles as well as short-term for incidental support.

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The youth council should have a real voice and real power. I think the Youth Council should be represented in the EUROPARC Council, by having a seat in the EUROPARC Council. This seat should not replace the seat of youth representative, as that seat is chosen by the EUROPARC Council and not elected.

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The youth council should have a similar structure as the EUROPARC Council, but elected (primarily) by and consist only of Junior Rangers and Youth+. To keep the elections streamlined, maybe preliminary elections per country (or even park) could be considered. Or maybe a sort of "national youth council" can be elected per country, and each national youth council puts forward a candidate for the EUROPARC Youth Council election. There would have to be some balancing mechanism to make sure smaller countries with fewer rangers/parks have an equal chance to larger countries with more rangers/parks.