At 5 pm today the European Youth Conference "European Youth in Action for Diversity and Tolerance" has been opened. Dr. Sven-Olaf Obst, (German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens and Youth, Head of the Division "Prevention of Delinquency, Right-wing Extremism and Xenophobia") and Karin Lopatta-Loibl (European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture, Youth Policy Unit) welcomed more than 180 participants from 41 countries from all over Europe.