Nordic Youth Disability Summit 2023

The Nordic Youth Disability Summit is the Nordic Council of Ministers' annual collaboration meetings with youth disability organisations. The aim of the meetings is to strengthen the perspectives of children and youth in Nordic cooperation on disability issues. This publication is a meeting report from the first Summit.Youth disability organisations met in Copenhagen in October 2023 to discuss current issues and challenges and identify areas of cooperation. This is a report on the results and implementations of the Summit. It presents statements developed during the summit on key topics in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ programme for cooperation on disability issues.The summit resulted in statements from a youth perspective on inclusive working life, cross-border obstacles in the Nordic region, how to take into account the child and youth perspective in the Nordic Council of Ministers’ policies and recommendations on inclusion in student democracy.