European Youth Centres

The European Youth Centres (EYC; French: Centres européens de la jeunesse, CEJ; German: Europäische Jugendzentren) are an instrument of the Youth Department within the Directorate of Democratic Participation of the Council of Europe.

With its opening in 1972, co-managing and youth participation became a core value of the organisation.

[3][4] The European Youth Centre Budapest (EYCB) was established in 1995 in a building originally designed as the house of the young communists, later converted into an international hotel.

The building is located in the Buda side of the city, relatively close to the castle and a few hundred metres from the river Danube.

The EYCB underwent major refurbishing of its external structure during summer 2005.