2ª Edição

In November 2023, the 2nd edition of the National Council of Children and Youth was launched, aimed at all children and young people residing in the national territory, aged between 8 and 15 years.

Currently (November 2025), the CNCJ has 28 members aged between 10 and 17 from the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira, representing the Districts of Aveiro, Braga, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisbon, Portalegre, Porto, Santarém, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo and Viseu. The councillors took office in June 2024 for a three-year term.

Some of the CNCJ's activities and initiatives stand out:

Three CNCJ advisors attended the VII Telesummit Global StopCyberbullying as part of the European Cybersecurity Month. In the panel dedicated to Youth Participation in Preventing and Combating Bullying, they shared their perspectives and presented solutions to these problems. (31-10-2025)

Three members participated in the event “For the promotion of Education for Citizenship and Digital Well-being in Portugal”, an initiative of the project “Clinging to the Net”, which marked the International Day to Combat Bullying (20/10/2025).

1st BootCamp of CNCJ, a partnership with the Science and Technology Park Regia Douro Park, which was held in Vila Real, and which included entrepreneurship activities and workshops on Personal Marketing and Financial Literacy and included several cultural and playful experiences to make Vila Real and the Douro Demarcated Region known (2 to 5 September). Click on the last two images to see two short summaries of how the young people of CNCJ spent these days.

The CNCJ invited the specialist Ricardo Trigo, Geophysicist and professor of climatology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, to talk about the Environment and climate change (24/06/2025).

The CNCJ is a member of the Platform European Union Children's ParticipationIt was represented by two members at its second General Assembly in Brussels in June 2025.

The CNCJ was in conversation with Vasco Malta, Head of Mission of the International Organization for Migration in Portugal, where you can learn more about the topic of Migration and Refugees, so on the agenda (05/03/2025).

CNCJ virtual meeting with the theme Children's Rights and the CRC (18/09/2024).