• enabling young people to view the European Union as an integral part of their historical, political, cultural and social environment; promoting an awareness of the dangers relating to exclusion, including racism and xenophobia, through socio-educational measures for and by young people and creating in them an awareness of the need to ensure equality; encouraging independence, creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit among young people, in particular at the social, civic, cultural and environmental levels; allowing young people to express their opinions on the organisation of society and encourage the various public authorities involved to take heed of these opinions.
• cur ar cumas daoine óga féachaint ar an Aontas Eorpach mar chuid dhílís dá dtimpeallacht stairíúil, pholaitiúíl, chultúrtha agus shóisialta; feasacht ar na baoil a bhaineann leis an eisiamh a chur chun cinn, ¡na mease an ciníochas agus an tseineafóibe, tri bhearta sochoídeachais do dhaoine óga agus le daoine óga agus tri fheasacht a chruthú ¡ontu ar an ngá atá le comhionannas; neamhspleáchas, cruthaitheacht agus meon fiontraíochta a spreagadh i mease daoine óga, ach go háihthe ag leibhéal na sochaí, an chultúiragus na timpeallachta; ligean do dhaoine óga a gcuid tuairimí ar leagan amach na sochaí a chur ¡n iúl agus na húdaráis phoiblí éagsúla a bhaineann leo a spreagadh chun ceann a thabhairt do na tuairimí seo.