Development of the E-Youth Digital Platform (UA0106)

Young people often have a problem with finding information about opportunities to develop their skills and abilities. Many young people are unaware of the opportunities or do not know how or where to find information about them. Young people's civic engagement and willingness to devote time to personal development, self-education, and volunteerism increase their resilience and build leadership skills. The ability of young people to take a proactive stance, which will also contribute to positive changes in communities, calls for a platform to be created to bring together young people and other stakeholders representing the state and the public sector, where all opportunities available for young people will be concentrated. In this regard, there is a plan to create an E-youth platform to provide exhaustive and up-to-date information on opportunities for young people to be viewed comfortably. The purpose of developing the E-youth platform is to maximize the number of economically active young people who will help the state to win and rebuild what has been destroyed, to motivate young people to stay in Ukraine, to strengthen ties with those who have left the country and encourage them to return to Ukraine and to increase young people's trust in the state. The platform will host a unified database for/about young people, training courses and programs, a marketplace of opportunities in the labor market; and information on administrative services for young people, youth centers, and youth workers. In addition, it will be possible to submit petitions, hold electronic voting for candidates to various bodies (youth councils, student and school self-government bodies), hold surveys of youth; and provide career counseling. The information published on the E-youth platform will be open, complete, timely, publicly available, and meet the basic standards of open data. One important aspect of the creation of the platform is to ensure its comfort of use, ease, speed, and efficiency of information search, as all opportunities for young people will be gathered in one place - on the single digital platform E-youth, which will also be a single point of entry for stakeholders, where they can inform young people about the opportunities available to them and youth policy implementation. In addition, an important task of the platform creation is to have young people’s feedback. The website should include feedback forms where youth can share their impressions and recommendations concerning events and opportunities, which will facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of the website use by youth and stakeholders.

Steps | Responsible agency | Completion time/period | Delivery indication

1. Stakeholder needs survey and data analysis | Ministry of Youth and Sports | December 2023 | Analysis of stakeholders and a survey of their representatives have been conducted; Existing platforms and digital solutions in the relevant field have been analyzed; Applicable normative and legal framework on youth policy issues in Ukraine has been analyzed

2. Road map for the development of the Eyouth platform has been prepared | Ministry of Youth and Sports | December 2023 — February 2024 | Project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) "Dream and Act" (by consent) | Development stages of the E-youth platform have been developed

3. Preparation of the terms of reference, technical requirements, design, and content of the platform | Ministry of Youth and Sports | February — June 2024 | The terms of reference, technical requirements, design concept, and platform content have been prepared

4. Development of the first version of the Eyouth platform | Ministry of Youth and Sports | July — December 2024 | The first version of the product with the minimum required functionality has been developed

5. Information campaign | Ministry of Youth and Sports | December 2024 — June 2025 | Young people have been informed about the youth policy, its implementation, and the benefits of the Eyouth platform

6. Development of a normative-legal act regulating the functioning of the E-youth platform | Ministry of Youth and Sports | December 2024 — June 2025 | The relevant resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has been submitted for consideration to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

7. Launching the Eyouth platform into trial operation and expanding its functionality | Ministry of Youth and Sports | December 2024 — June 2025 | The trial operation of the E-youth platform has been completed

8. Putting the E-youth platform into industrial operation and expanding its functionality | Ministry of Youth and Sports | May — June 2025 | The E-youth platform has been put into industrial operation; its functionality has been expanded