Check out the new Voices Platform

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Check out the new Voices Platform

Voices platform
The Voices platform gives young people a voice to raise their ideas and concerns for the future.

What is your vision of Europe? As part of the European Year of Youth 2022, the European Commission has launched the first ever Voices Platform - a participatory tool for young people to make their voices heard. Everyone is welcome to record their voice on the platform and go on a journey of interactive exchange about the valuable ideas, visions, comments, and questions on topics such as employment, sustainability, social equality, education or mental health.

You can record your message in 29 languages. When speaking in your own language, the platform will automatically adapt your voice into English, by using an artificial intelligence tool.

This is your time to speak up! No matter how small or big your visions are, we will listen carefully to reflect on them and take them into account for future policy decisions. Stay up to date with the European Year of Youth

[…] if we are to shape our Union in their mould, young people must be able to shape Europe's future.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

The Voices Platform will be featured at the 4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival on 20th October, 2022 at 9am. Visit the event registration page to attend the event in person or catch it via Livestream.

About the Author
Tessa has worked at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre since 2017. She works on the Community of Practice for the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. Tessa completed a Masters degree in ecological economics and sustainability at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is now completing her PhD on political science at the same institution. Prior to this work, Tessa was a television journalist at Reuters in Hong Kong before working as a Communication Expert at the European Forest Institute in Barcelona.