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Joint Statement: A Roadmap for Every Child

The next European Union (EU) long-term budget has the potential to invest in all children, everywhere.

Call for a child-centred EU budget: Joint reaction to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Proposal

The next European Union (EU) long-term budget has the potential to invest in all children, everywhere.

For a More Holistic Focus on Education – Enhancing the “Union of Equality” Strategy 2021-2030

Sampo Kolu, our youngest advisory board member, has formally submitted his response to the European Commission’s consultation on “Enhancing the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

UN Call: Inputs on Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment

At QUEST we mobilized our network of schools, composed of both alternative and traditional schools across Europe, to answer the suggested questionnaire. In the first part of the document we provide you with summaries of their answers based on the educational model.

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The Change We Want: A Manifesto by Rural Young People in Europe

At QUEST, we believe young people don’t need adults to translate what they want to say. Too often, they are tokenised, routinely consulted to check a box, yet shut out from meaningful decision-making on the very issues that shape their lives. They need real space to say it, and real doors opened to the people who can act on it. Giving rural youth the room to define their own demands, in their own words and their own format, and then walking those demands into institutions like the EESC and the Committee of the Regions, is exactly the kind of empowerment we exist to make possible.

Exploring Gender Dynamics in Forest School Kindergartens

This report explores how gender dynamics manifest in children’s play and interactions within outdoor kindergarten environments that follow the Forest School pedagogy.

From Eco-Anxieties to Action

On October 17 th 2025, 35 young participants from Lithuania, Ireland, Bulgaria, and Italy gathered in Brussels, Belgium, to bring eco-anxiety into light in front of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), youth workers, and peers.

VOLT Art Catalogue

This catalogue presents The VOLT Art Project, an artistic extension of the Erasmus+ project VOLT – VOLcanoes as Teachers, which connects schools in Italy, Greece, and Iceland located in remote volcanic regions of Europe. The project combines STEM exploration and artistic expression, encouraging students to study their local volcanoes and share their discoveries through both scientific and creative lenses.

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