
The final conference of the project "Youth and Brussels based regions" was organized in Brussels on 16th June 2016. The speakers were representatives of EU institutions and regions involved in the project. The conference was opened by President of the Abruzzo region Luciano D'Alfonso, while the President Nikola Dobroslavić held closing speech and opened the exhibition of photographs taken during the project.
Project"Ybbregions" on the Croatian side was prepared by the Regional Development Agency Dunea. The project was approved by the European Commission within the program "Youth in Action", and the partners are four regions: the Dubrovnik-Neretva county as the Croatian representative, region Lubuskie form Poland , Prešov region from Slovakia and the Italian region Abruzzo.
Young people who were involved in the project had the opportunity to acquaint themselves with all the EU institutions, starting with the EU Parliament, the EU Commission, the Committee of the Regions and the Council of the EU, and especially the work of the representative office in Brussels. Through the project for two years in Brussels, attended by 80 young people from 4 regions between the ages of 18 and 30, out of 600 applicants. The project included activities; European Voluntary Service and transnational exchanges of young people and the conference presented the successful results of these activities.
