Liberal Communicators' Network - Youth Edition 2026

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Participants will gain professional skills, learn from each other by exchanging best practices, and create a network for future cooperation and peer support at the Liberal Communicators’ Network (LCN) - Youth Edition 2026!

We need to provide young people with the knowledge and resources to be strong communicators. Our aim is to teach young liberal communicators how to make liberalism more understandable and accessible, focusing on strategies to effectively communicate liberal ideas in the context of media freedom. 

General Objective for the 2026 LCN - Youth Edition

In a digital environment where political narratives are shaped through online personalities, liberal voices must be present and skilled to cut through the platform polarisation. In recent years, we have seen the far-right overtake social media through their extended network of online communities and with strategically placed influencers who turn their narrative into viral objectives. We believe that it should take more than political actors to showcase liberalism online. Because if liberals don't start strategically shaping the digital conversation, we will lose more online momentum. Dedicating a weekend to “Becoming a Liberal Influencer” will allow young liberal communicators to turn our values into skills and develop an online presence for their future outlets. 

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LCN Youth Edition 2026 is organised by LYMEC in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Europe.

The Liberal Communicators’ Network is an umbrella cooperation programme between Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, LYMEC, European Liberal Forum, and Projekt: Polska Foundation. For 6 years now, the partners organize separate editions of LCN Academies, focusing on different target audiences and topics.