Employability & Democracy and Sustainable Communities are on top of the survey on the thematic agenda of the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum. For the first time in its 14-year history, the UNESCO Youth Forum is designed by young people. Through a series of online surveys and consultations, young women and men from all regions of the world can decide on the Forum’s thematic agenda, preparatory process, format and overall programme. From 14 to 24 February 2013, 1,895 young women and men across the world responded to the online Survey on the theme of the Forum, selecting two thematic priority areas among the 7 themes suggested. Employability & Democracy and sustainable communities were the top two choices with respectively 515 respondents for the first one (majority in Europe and North America and Africa) and 512 respondents for the second one (majority in the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean). UNESCO has now launched the Phase 2: exchanging on the format, the preparatory process and the outcomes of the Forum through a new [ https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C5J2CSD ]online survey which will be open until 9 April 2013. The survey is addressed to young people and youth development actors across the world and aims to collect feedback and ideas on ways to better prepare for the Forum, make it more interactive and ensure concrete outcomes. Young people worldwide, from 15 to 35 years old are invited to contribute. Find out more: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/youth/sv13/news/shape_the_youth_forum_with_us
