European Youth Parliament
| Founded | 1987 |
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| Founder | Bettina Carr-Allinson (NL) and Laurent Grégoire (FR) |
| Type | Educational Charity |
| Focus | Internationalism |
| Location |
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| Origins | Fontainebleau, France |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Anya Suprunenko (Executive Director) |
| Volunteers | 50,000+ |
| Website | eyp.org |
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is the youth parliament for Europe. Legally an independent educational charity, it is a politically unbound non-profit organisation, which encourages European youth to actively engage in citizenship and cultural understanding. It annually involves around 25,000 youth from across Europe in its events and has around 6,000 active members in 40 different countries. It was established in 1987 in Fontainebleau, France, as the first youth parliament in the world.
The EYP operates in 40 European countries, both inside and outside the European Union. A member of the organisation may be known as a Member of the European Youth Parliament (MEYP). MEYPs are aged 14 to 28 and are elected by their peers to represent their schools, regions or countries as delegates in debates.