Annual activities

Each year, ENOC organizes a number of activities in order to enable ENOC members to work together as a forum of colleagues and to share their knowledges and findings regarding the thematic of the year.

ENOC working seminars

ENOC organizes working seminars in order to enable ENOC members who have already worked on the selected themes of the year to share proactively concrete case studies, situations or materials to help draw up a list of common issues/problems/obstacles faced by children affected by the selected issue in the different European countries. The Seminar provides a forum for participants to define common areas of concern about the issue and to draft a statement in preparation for the Annual Conference.

ENOC annual conferences

The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) holds one major member’s meeting each year, which is hosted by a member institution or by ENOC.

The ENOC Annual Conference is the concluding event for the themes selected each year and provides the opportunity to present the work ENOC has done over the year. The Annual Conference allows ENOC members to present “promising” practices on preserving the rights, needs and well-being of children and young people. It offers also an opportunity to expose states’ failures to guarantee children and young people’s rights. ENOC invites Independent Children’s Rights Institutions (ICRIs) from and outside Europe to attend as observers as well as representatives of International and European organisations (CoE, EU, UN, UNICEF, etc.) and of non-governmental organisations operating in the children’s rights field. Other observers may be invited at the discretion of the Bureau of ENOC. On the last day of the Conferences, ENOC holds its annual General Assembly meeting during which the new ENOC Bureau is elected, and will decide on the network’s priorities for the next year.

Annual Conference reports are available here, and Thematic Annual Report are available here.

Child Participation

Children and young people’s participation and feedbacks constitute the other important piece of work aiming to give a voice to those most affected by the issue in question (Article 12 UNCRC). Through the European Network of Young Advisor (ENYA) and ENOC’s participation projects, ENOC implements each year a ground-based child participatory approach by directly involving children and young people.

Find out more about ENOC’s participation projects and ENYA activities here.

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