The European youth gatherings for prize-winners provide opportunities to promote better mutual understanding and intercultural learning; they contribute to informal intercultural education as well as to its European dimension. They are thus a step forward towards intercultural societies.

The gatherings are mostly run by multinational teams and focus on themes of European scope. Every year several gatherings take place in various European countries, and many young people are offered the chance to benefit from these encounters. Their reports and letters show that for many of them, this participation in a European youth gathering is a key experience in their lives.