RCC’s WB Youth Lab Project (WBYL), together with the European Commission and the European Parliament is co-organising the first post-pandemic Bridging the Gap conference on 24-27 April 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, in premises of European Parliament.

The last in-person Bridging the Gap platform took place in September 2018 in the Parliament of North Macedonia. Since that moment, the platform has not been able to meet in person due to pandemic. Therefore, this is the first post-pandemic event in the first half of 2023 in Brussels and topics of this year’s Conference are 1) Role of youth in the EU enlargement process; 2) Disinformation; 3) Green and digital transition and 4) Regional cooperation.

As European Union is committed to remaining strongly engaged in the Western Balkans and youth is at the top of the agenda WBYL is calling National Youth Councils from the Western Balkans and their members’ local youth organizations to submit an application of their representative(s) interested in taking part in the program.