European Democracy Youth Network (EDYN)

EDYN is a youth network headquartered in Bratislava with over 720 members - who are young pro-democracy politicians, activists, civic leaders, and journalists - between the ages of 18 to 32 across 23 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and the South Caucasus. The unique thing about EDYN is that our members represent their countries’ entire political and ideological spectrum – except for the political fringes. As a project partner, we can organize and host trainings, workshops, conferences, roundtables, and exchange trips, and we also offer access to geographically and politically diverse pro-democracy youth. The topics we focus on and that our members are passionate about include youth empowerment and youth advocacy, fighting political polarization and extremism, EU enlargement, conflict resolution and interfaith dialogue, women's political empowerment, fighting disinformation (especially Russian hybrid warfare), and GOTV campaigns to increase youth turnout in local, regional, and state elections.