Education The activity also resulted in a joint webpage on social media that increased interest in the multi-cultural council and its work. The overall goal of these initiatives was to provide students from different communities with an opportunity to interact, socialize, and learn about each other in order to improve inter-ethnic relations, both among them and in the wider community. Over time, the OSCE expanded the scope of its work towards supporting the national and local authorities, youth structures, and civil society organizations in creating relevant youth policies and strategic documents at the local and central levels. In this way, youth engagement could be leveraged for improving inter-ethnic relations. 3. Multilingual higher education Under one country’s laws, national minorities had the right to pre-school, primary, and secondary school education in their language, while higher education was only provided in the state’s majority language. Because of this, the non-majority population had been complaining of discrimination and lack of inclusion in state institutions. Children from the non-majority population had been educated separately in their mother tongue, with only a few hours of instruction per week in the majority language. Following a comprehensive analysis conducted by the co-ordination board responsible for the area with the support of the OSCE and the international community, the majority language curriculum was found to be inadequate. The respective study showed that most students spoke their mother tongue at 56