A Better Youth Information for New Times

A new project of ERYICA entitled «A Better Youth Information for New Times» has received the support from the European Commission in the frame of « Youth in Action » programme and is planned to be launched in January 2009. By levying on the existing well established network of local, regional, national and international generalist youth information centres and youth workers that constitute the ERYICA partnership, this project aims to enhancing and increasing the provision of generalist youth information of quality in Europe, namely in the aspects of youth participation, quality standards, new technologies.

Our partners in the project are Youth Agora (Belgium), What Matters (Malta), Vereniging van JIP's (the Netherlands), IJAB (Germany), National Coordination and Development Centre of Youth Information and Counselling Services (Finland), LOGO jugendmanagement gmbh (Austria), INJUVE Instituto de la Juventud (Spain), Network of Youth Information Centres in Norway (Norway), MISSS (Slovenia), and IN PETTO (Belgium). 

These objectives shall be pursued by fostering, collecting and disseminating best practises, by developing existing training cycles addressing youth information trainers and workers, by publishing andenriching an online platform for generalist youth information workers, by fostering quality peer-to-peer practises, by involving young people in youth information work, especially in the dissemination of user-centred information.

Main tangible outcomes that are expected: online platform collecting all the aforementioned content, to become the point of reference for generalist youth information workers in Europe and beyond; a booklet presenting the outcomes ofthe project (best practices and quality standards and criteria); a new cycle of trainings adapted to the new needs in the sector; a European Youth Information Charter from youngsters to youngsters; in sum: a better, more participated and more accessible youth information of quality for a wider number of young people.