Safety and Quality in Online Youth Information
Safety and Quality in Online Youth Information (SQOYI) is ERYICA’s new project that we are currently working on together with a number of experts from our network.
The project seeks to create and disseminate knowledge for Youth Information workers to empower young people to make good use of available online Youth Information resources.
The project is expected to deliver the following outcomes:
- An Info-KIT providing guidance to young people on how to find information on the Internet and on how to generate good content. The material will also include good practice and examples featuring innovative techniques.
- Quality principles for participative and user-generated online Youth Information will be established and then promoted as an integral part of the “European Youth Information Charter”.
- The created material will be directly used for a training of 30 trainers of Youth Information workers and two international workshops involving 50 young people, empowering them to enact efficient searching strategies also in user generated content environments besides a safe and proper use of internet.
The project will run until April 2011 and will take place in different European venues.
ERYICA Completed Projects "A Better Youth Information for New Times" [0]
A Better Youth Information for New Times List of project partners
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Training Task Force Meetings
Training Task Force Meetings are meetings of trainers and youth information workers from all over Europe, during which trainers discuss most problematic issues of the quality of generalist youth information in Europe.
Six consecutive meetings took place in 2009-2010 within the framework of the project:
- Vienna (Austria), March 6 - 8, 2009 [0];
- Rotterdam (the Netherlands), March 25, 2009;
- Rotterdam (the Netherlands), April 23-24. 2009 [0];
- Palma (Spain), May 8 - 10, 2009 [0];
- Ljubljana (Slovenia), November 6 - 9, 2009;
- Brussels (Belgium), January 23-25, 2010.
Youth Information Platform
Youth Information Platform is an online platform to be created by the project partners. It will be at the disposal of youth information workers and trainers. The Platform will contain a range of information for youth information workers, trainers, and other interested parties.
Project Publication
In the framework of the project, a printed publication will be produced, highlighting the results of the project, and collecting best practices from the project partners.
Know more! [0] 
The project "A Better Youth Information for New Times" is implemented with support from the European Union within the framework of the "Youth in Action" Programme of the European Commission.
Meet the Street Read Meet the Street in Brief! [0]
Meet the Street - I was the first phase of the Meet the Street project.
It ran from October 2008 till the end of February 2009.
During this phase, ERYICA, in cooperation with the Service National de la Jeunesse [1] subjects for interviews [1]
These trainings provided the youngsters with all the tools they would need in order to conduct peer to peer interviews.
Each project partner centre [1] was asked to find 6 youngsters, who would conduct interviews. From these 6 youngsters, 2 participated in the event in Luxembourg.
They had to train 4 other youngsters from their centre, who didn't participate in the training, and "transmit" the skills they had acquired during it.
Each centre committed itself to upload 35 interviews during the "Meet the Street - I" (by mid-March 2009).
The other 35 interviews were uploaded during the second ph
ase of the project (by the end of June 2009).
The videos can be viewed here [2]
The training provided took place in the Youth hostel of Luxembourg on 4 - 7 December 2008, where 39 youngsters from 12 different countries came to be trained (2 youngsters per partner association).
The interviews taken dealt with such subjects as drugs, employment, health, education, exchange projects, and the right to vote.
Meet the Street - II was the second phase of the project running from March 2009 till September 2009.During this phase, a follow-up meeting and training of youngsters was organised in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 16 - 19 of April 2009. Forty youngsters participated in the event.
Know the schedule of the Meet the Street - II! [2]
Both phases of the Meet the Street project were implemented with support from the European Union within the framework of the "Youth in Action" Programme (Action 5.1) of the European Commission.
Read more on the Meet the Street - II in our news [2]!
meet the street [3] from mob flo [4] on Vimeo [5].
Read about exchanges [5]that took place within the framework of the project!
The following are statistically the results of the project:
Click here to check the grid of themes and countires [5] and graphic [5].
And specifically by themes and countries:
| Themes |
Countries |
| Education [5] | Austria [5] |
| Employment [5] | Belgium [5] |
| Environment [5] | |
| Ethics [5] | Bulgaria [5] |
| Future [5] | Finland [5] |
| Health [5] | France [5] |
| Leisure [5] | Germany [5] |
| Local comunity [5] | Ireland [5] |
| Transport [5] | Italy [5] |
| Media [5] | Portugal [5] |
| Politics [5] | Scotland [5] |
| Security [5] | Slovakia [5] |
| Social [5] | The Netherlands [5] |
| Society [5] | |
| Travel [5] |