The Federal Youth Authority announced the launch of the "Youth Spaces" initiative, aiming to transform how youth are served in the UAE. The initiative encourages national institutions across all sectors to provide a conducive environment that offers diverse services that meet their needs and provide them with new opportunities to invest their time and energy, as well as introducing them to existing spaces across the country.
The initiative aims to support the implementation of the first package of projects under the National Youth Agenda 2031, which is based on the results of a study on the future of youth centers. It also aims to create a new model that serves youth in specific fields and specialties, enhance the environment that fosters their creativity by implementing a model based on cooperation with entities across all sectors, and unify national efforts to invest various resources within the framework of enabling youth to access spaces that provide integrated services.
New Methods
On the occasion of the launch of the initiative, His Excellency Dr. Sultan bin Saif Al Neyadi, Minister of State for Youth Affairs, said: “The wise leadership of the UAE is constantly keen to support youth and guide them by harnessing all available tools to invest their energies in various fields. This vision is a motivation to work on innovating purposeful approaches to ensure valuable achievements within the process of construction and development.”
His Excellency Al Neyadi added: “The Youth Spaces initiative embodies national aspirations to harness capabilities to prepare a generation of youth capable of achieving their goals. It provides diversity and inclusiveness by providing equal opportunities for youth from various disciplines, across the UAE. It is also an opportunity designed to enhance their spirit of innovation, in addition to community communication through cooperation among youth, encouraging them to unite efforts to find solutions and define future paths.”
A qualitative step
. For his part, Khalid Al Nuaimi, Director of the Federal Youth Authority, said: “The Youth Spaces initiative represents a qualitative step that gives young people the opportunity to develop their capabilities, as they are the driving force for positive change. From this standpoint, the initiative emerged as an empowering platform that allows young people to exchange ideas and gain the experiences they need to excel in their personal and professional lives, within the framework of the ‘Quality of Life’ approach in the National Youth Agenda 2031.”
Al Nuaimi added: “The initiative grants each space privacy according to the entity’s specialization and the field in which it operates, to constitute a model to be emulated in how to unify efforts to support young people and invest their energies, enhance their involvement in planning and decision-making, and occupy spaces and integrate them with other entities to serve young people and support their skill and cognitive development.”
National Platform
For her part, Sheikha Al Ali, Director of the Youth Spaces Project, said: “The initiative targets various entities in the public and private sectors, serving young people between the ages of 15 and 35 and anyone with a youthful spirit. It is one of the most important national platforms that activates the role of institutional youth councils and work teams within entities by managing and operating spaces at their workplaces to provide essential services.”
She explained that the approved spaces that have received the Youth Spaces label will be announced this November.
Quality Services
It is worth noting that the youth spaces serve all UAE citizens and residents, and the Federal Youth Authority seeks to select spaces that provide quality services, as the opportunity is available to all government and private entities, and individual-owned companies can be part of the initiative and obtain the label if they meet the conditions and criteria.
