One Network to Bring Us Together
What is this all for?
AYN members came together and determined barriers to action facing Arctic youth today:
- Lack of access to opportunities, resources, and information
- Lack of communication and collaboration between Arctic regions
- Physical and social Isolation
Video courtesy of the Arctic Youth Summit
Empowering Youth through our Two Pillars
Empowering Youth through our Two Pillars
Learn how we carry out our commitment to supporting our members' vision and passion.
CONNECTION
The AYN aims to connect youth across borders and cultures for meaningful collaboration and exchange. When youth work together, amazing things happen.
- Communications platform: active social media network and dynamic website to facilitate sharing stories of members’ actions and encourage collaboration
- Working Groups: thematic spaces for collaboration and project development
- The Exchange: in-house publishing platform for sharing content by youth, engaging over 25 writers and editors, with shareable publications tailored for the program’s diverse and wide-reaching partner organizations
- Tailored assistance in youth-led project development and fundraising
CAPACITY-BUILDING
Building youth capacity for leadership and effective action allows youth to make change their own way. With education and experience, they can harness what they learn and apply it to their own initiatives.
- Opportunity aggregation: resources and programming shared with members by bringing together available opportunities from across the Arctic
- Youth-involvement services for organizations and institutions: assistance for organizations in actively engaging and incorporating youth into their ongoing projects, advisory councils, networks, and events
- Conference participation: funding the participation of youth at relevant conferences and developing youth panels or sessions as a component of these gatherings
The AYN is committed to ensuring Arctic youth are safe in all their activities with the organization.
Read our Policy Statement on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Learn about our Programmes
Learn about our Programmes
The Arctic Youth Network has several program streams designed to support youth in:
- developing as leaders in their communities
- engaging in the institutions and organizations acting in the north
- facilitating collaboration across borders and cultures.
Explore them in the tabs below:
The Arctic Youth Network Member Facebook Group is a platform for sharing opportunities, connecting with others, and learning more about what's going on in other parts of the Arctic.
The AYN and other members post about events, opportunities, and topics of shared interest. The AYN even occasionally runs application processes for other organizations for things such as conferences and advisory boards, plus our own programs.
Join the Member Group and follow along on Facebook and Instagram!
AYN Working Groups bring together people from across the Arctic and beyond to engage with specific topics.
Learning and Sharing
Working Group members work together to learn, share their experiences, and produce resources to inform others on the critical aspects of their topic. Discussion groups, webinars, conference sessions, toolkits, media content and more: working groups are on it!
Direct Engagement
Through collaborations with prominent organizations and institutions, AYN Working Groups engage directly with the processes shaping the North, participating in consultations, research projects, and advisory councils.
Learn more and join a Working Group today!
The Exchange is the AYN's online publishing platform aiming to amplify the voices of youth, and encourage an exchange of ideas, news and analysis of pertinent Arctic issues, and the bring community stories to the global stage.
Looking for:
Writers
Editors
Mentors
Learn more about the Exchange!