EUDY also partners with Frontrunners, an international leadership training program based in Denmark, the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section, the global representative of Deaf young people, the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters, an ENGO dedicated to defend the rights of sign language interpreters and the European Deaf Students’ Union, an ENGO for the rights of Deaf students. Its Board, staff and pool of trainers and experts are all deaf persons aged between 18 and 30 years old.
Moreover, the youth of today are the future adults of tomorrow thus in total there is a high amount of young persons who can be (in)directly reached through EUDY actions, since there are 800 000 Deaf sign language users in the European Union (EUD Sign Language Legislation Book 2012). The board members, including its president, are elected by the General Assembly.
