The Congress Goals & Objectives

What does the congress hope to achieve?

The congress Main objective are:

• Supply participants with skills and support to enable them, more effectively, to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
• To honour the achievements of the most ambitious, most effective and most successful young practitioners of youth-led development and draw the attention of the world’s development professionals to the need to provide increased support to them to enable more youth to become agents of change.
• To join the continuum of the internationally-recognized World Youth Congress series and achieve a measurable step change in the level of support and acknowledgement for the positive role of youth in society worldwide.

Secondary objectives:

• Be the lead event of the 400th anniversary youth program;
• Enable intercultural exchanges between local and international young people;

Other objectives:

• Accentuate the global scale of Canada’s convening role, particularly on the American continent;
• To celebrate the spirit of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary by showing it indeed to be “the Meeting Place” of the world’s young people.
• Highlight the Quebec youth organization’s expertise, particularly that of the National-Capital region, developed in the last 10 years thanks to the governments Youth Action Plan;
• Contribute to Quebec City’s organizations and citizens intercultural openness;