What is APYN?

History

The Alcohol Policy Youth Network is a direct outcome of a series of political processes that continuously asked for higher youth participation in the definition, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes tackling the harmful consumption of alcohol.

During our first Constitutive meeting that was held in March 2008 in Budapest we gave birth to the first ever all embracing youth network on Alcohol harm reduction and identified the working areas the future network would tackle, the needs that youth organisations must satisfy to be more involved in alcohol policy-making and its implementation, as well as developing the first action plan that has been revised and updated on last years’ annual coordination meeting in  Lisbon, Portugal.

Mission

APYN is a network of youth organizations and youth clubs that works towards the reduction of harmful effects of youth drinking. Its mission is to mobilize young people across Europe to raise awareness about alcohol related topics and to become advocates of better alcohol policy on a local, national and international level.

APYN conducts research into young people and alcohol and all its policies are based on scientific evidence.

APYN is apolitical and independent from any source of private funding.

Participating organizations

APYN is currently in the process of the establishment of an international non-govenrmental organization, therefore has yet not fixed it’s formal membership. For now, we can only say which organizations participated in APYN since 2008, but by Spring 2012, we will be able to update  this page with a list of “Full members” and “Associate members”.

Since its establishment, altogether there were more than 1000 young people who took part in APYN activities and over 100 young people who participated on its events.

The European organizations who participated were: