Future Youth School Forums (FYS Forums) is a global citizenship education project encouraging schools to run youth led forums on global issues for other schools in their local community. The FYS Forums model has three main phases which include pre-forum critical thinking activities on the forum’s global issue, the forum itself, and post-forum civic engagement where young people plan and take formal action on an aspect of the global issue.FYS Forums is designed to better motive and engage young people within the formal education system, support the development of young people’s traversal skills, encourage teachers to develop more inspiring, participatory and relevant practice and curricula, and to increase active citizenship and civic engagement across Europe.FYS Forums bring real life issues into the curriculum while supporting young people to understand complex global challenges. The first global issue in year one was migration under the banner of ‘People Forced to Flee’. The second global issue (as voted by young people), was gender inequality. Through the project’s participatory methodologies, young people are supported to respond to global issues and challenges by enabling them to think critically about the issue, and discuss how best to take action that is suitable and informed.The three main objectives of FYS Forums were:• To create an inclusive, sustainable, networked model of EU wide curriculum linked global citizenship youth forums that are delivered by schools for schools.• To provide teachers and young people with the tools to promote effective and inclusive youth leadership across formal and informal education through global citizenship forums.• To influence at local, national and EU levels to promote more inclusive and participatory youth led policies and opportunities within EU education systems.FYS Forums partnered with several schools who took ownership of the planning and delivery of the forums. In the first year, ‘Hub Schools’ were recruited who led on the first round of People Forced to Flee forums. There were five Hub Schools in the project – one each in Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania, the UK and Poland. The five Hub Schools stayed engaged throughout the whole project and ran forums in year 2. Additionally, in the second year, the partnership extended to ‘Trial Schools’ who were also asked to run their own forums. Trial Schools could choose which global issue they wanted to run a forum on. There were eight Trial Schools in the project – two each in Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania and the UK. All Hub and Trial Schools were responsible for inviting ‘Participating Schools’ to come to their forum and undertake pre-and post-learning activities. There was a total of 71 unique Participating Schools who attended a total of 20 forums over the three years of the project.The wealth of learning resources available on the FYS Forums website enable schools to fully engage in the forums process. These include:• A step by step interactive online toolkit leading teachers and young people through the steps to either set up and participate in a forum, or to attend another schools’ forum.• Learning resources on the global issue including 7 workshops for students who are attending a forum, short activities for the whole school to learn about the global issue, a treasure hunt, quiz and assembly presentation.• 15 Transversal skills modules to prepare young people for the forum including leadership, teamwork, decision making and time management.Through these resources, FYS Forums provide a sustainable model for schools to run their own youth-led forums and can be applied and adapted to suit a range of educational needs and contexts. While the project reached 12,251 young people aged 12-18 through post-forum actions, the materials and resources above can be adapted further for use with younger or older young people and indeed adults.The project produced several reports including:• Youth Participation and Global Citizenship: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Youth School Forums – a contextual analysis of the educational landscape and needs for the project in Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania and the UK, and provides recommendations for programme design and implementation.• Youth Participation for Active Global Citizenship: Future Youth School Forums Report – an analysis of the project’s implementation and impact. • Future Youth School Forums: External Evaluation – an external review of the impact of the project.Collectively, the resources, forums and post-action activity directly impacted 12,638 young people and teachers across five European countries, 72 key stakeholders and a further 15,000 individuals through wider dissemination activity including teacher training, seminars at conferences and participatory workshops.FYS Forums was a three-year partnership between Oxfam GB in the UK, Oxfam Italia in Italy, CARDET in Cyprus, Jaunimo Karjeros Centras in Lithuania and the University of Łódź in Poland.