This edition will highlight how we can address disinformation and divides by recognising our shared interest in improving everyone’s competencies to engage with the opportunities and risks in today’s landscape of communication, technology, and information.

The 3rd EYWC will play a crucial role in establishing this European Youth Work Agenda as a strategic European framework for further developing and strengthening youth work practice and policies and shaping youth work development across Europe.

The aim of this research project is to document and analyse the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on youth work in Europe, including the European youth programmes, and the response of youth work across Europe to the pandemic and its effects.

The report captures the immediate effects of the pandemic on the lives of young people (aged 18–29) with regards to employment, education, mental well-being, rights and social activism. Over 12,000 responses were received from young people in 112 countries.

Our 2019 Annual Report is about ERYICA’s strategy, activities, projects and youth information aims, giving an overview of the sector, our cooperation at European and international level, and our members across Europe.

The Emerging Minds Network is conducting the Co-SPACE Study to see how families are coping with the challenges of COVID-19, in the fields of family life and relationships, overall health and wellbeing, parenting, psychological symptoms and how participants are coping during the Covid-19 pandemic

The UNESCO wishes to highlight that freedom of expression, access to information - notably on public health - and quality news coverage are essential to face the unprecedented crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic

The outbreak of the coronavirus has led to disinformation that hampers efforts to contain the pandemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said false claims are “spreading faster than the virus” and has termed it an “infodemic of planetary proportions”.

Implemented in 14 European languages, running in 19 countries and shared more than 850 times, we can now consider that the EYID 2020 campaign was a complete success.

Based on the long-lasting experience of Italy in youth information, being the Italian partner of the ERYICA network will give Eurodesk Italy a chance to enhance both the quality and the number of services offered locally and regionally for the information and counselling of young people.

As we all know, the climate crisis is a major topic for all of us, and especially for young people. At the end of April 2020, ANIJ interviewed Jerry, a young climate activist from Luxembourg, who was interviewed on behalf of Youth for Climate Luxembourg about the current situation and the climate crisis. Check it out!

Young people engage with and live in the digital world, and the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic is providing us with a unique opportunity to work with and reach out to young people online. Aġenzija Żgħażagħ are embracing this experience and enjoying the opportunity to explore new ways of engaging with and supporting young people.

In these challenging times, the YBC have implemented various activities, actions and initiatives, aiming to support, empower and provide alternatives means to assist young people manage this difficult situation.

Like everybody else also young people have faced the need to reorient their everyday life. How do young people in Estonia cope with it and how do they feel about it? Check out the case study by ENTK!

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, aha Liechtenstein had to switch to home office and build up/ intensify youth information services online within a very short time. How to rebrand oneself in times of pandemic? Check it out!

The aim of this initiative has been to create networks of positive communication and proactive thinking among young people, including solidarity networks to promote culture, social participation, education and democratic values via the Internet.

Eurodesk and ERYICA joined forces to provide the youth information sector with guidelines and background on greening their services and supporting young people in their environmental ambitions

While we listen to your queries and highlight your passion and desire to enjoy life, our profession ensures that we continue learning and updating ourselves through multiple studies and research reports that show the trends of young people, their needs, their living conditions and their social backgrounds.

The overall objective of the project is to train young people across Europe to become ambassadors for young people’s right to information, to be able to carry out local-level training with their peers, and to gain skills and competences in different areas that will help them to influence decision-making processes.

The guides include dozens of practical tips to learn how to manage the lockdown by conserving an emotional balance, a positive outlook, and a cooperative spirit and to help young people deal with the lockdown with meaning.