Why WYA Redacted Names from EACEA Review Documents

World Youth Alliance Europe has redacted the names of certain EACEA staff members from documents published on our website following a request from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). We took this step as a gesture of institutional courtesy and good faith, and in order to avoid further diversion of time and resources […]

EU Grant Review Treats Opposition to Surrogacy as Non-Compliance

World Youth Alliance Europe (WYAE) has submitted targeted legal responses to the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) following the recent reviews of three separate EU-funded projects: Operating Grant 2024 (OG2024), Women’s Health Goes Digital (WHGD), and Youth Act 2024. Each review raises serious concerns about the interpretation and application of the Erasmus+ Grant Agreement […]

MEPs Raise Alarm Over European Commission Review of World Youth Alliance Europe

Fifteen Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have raised serious concerns over the European Commission’s handling of three Erasmus+ youth projects run by World Youth Alliance Europe (WYA Europe), following project review reports issued by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). In a letter addressed to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen […]

Study on HDC Published in the Journal of Character Education

A long-awaited article on the Human Dignity Curriculum has been published in the Journal of Character Education. Written by Mark B. Pacheco, Jared C. McKee, and Yi Lai of the University of Florida, the paper examines how elementary and middle school students perceived human dignity after participating in the HDC. The study is an analysis […]

Soros-funded Open Democracy claims credit for WYA grant review

The Soros-funded media platform, openDemocracy, has taken credit for initiating the review that froze World Youth Alliance grant funds by the European Commission. In an article published November 18, 2025, openDemocracy claims that the World Youth Alliance is set to lose its European Union funding after openDemocracy revealed it won a reproductive health grant despite […]

EU Agency Misapplies EU Law

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On November 4th, 2025, World Youth Alliance Europe publicly addressed the project review letters (available at the bottom of the text) issued by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) concerning 3 separate Erasmus+ grants that WYA Europe implemented throughout 2024. As noted in the article, these letters do not allege any failures in […]

World Youth Alliance Europe: Response to the EACEA Grant Review Letters

At the beginning of November 2025, World Youth Alliance Europe received 3 project review letters from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) concerning Erasmus+ grants awarded to World Youth Alliance Europe and World Youth Alliance South-East Europe for projects that had been executed starting in January 2024. The projects concerned are called Women’s […]

Over 900 Students Discover Their Dignity in Paraguay

For three days, WYA’s Director of Latin America, Maria Laura, and myself, a WYA member from Paraguay, visited several educational institutions in Alto Paraná, Paraguay. We reached over 900 young people as we led workshops on human dignity in multiple schools. Many students shared they had never heard of “human dignity” before. This revelation was […]