EGK bases its work on the following strategic lines: 

• Encouraging young people's participation in society and collaborative work.
• Improving young people's conditions of life.
• Encouraging young people's positive inclusion in society.
• Designing, starting up and evaluating a Youth Policy in Euskadi.
• Guaranteeing EGK's autonomy and other necessary factors for its development.
• Contributing to the construction of a society at peace and based on cooperation.
• Contributing to a fair society.
• Contributing to an open society.
• Contributing to a society with its own lively, diverse culture.

And, through the following services:

• Offering opportunities for reflection and debate.
• Providing information and documentation services.
• Encouraging awareness programmes.
• Offering courses.
• Training.
• Assessment.
• Representing youth, working for intermediation and dialogue.
• Relationships with the media.
• Coordination and cooperation between social agents and youth initiatives.
• Development of opinions and complain actions.