European Youth Information Quality Label
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European Youth Information Quality Label
Project dates
January 2019 - December 2020
Coordination
ERYICA
Financed by
Council of Europe
In April 2018, the General Assembly of ERYICA approved in Cascais a new European Youth Information Charter and ERYICA Strategic Plan for 2018-2023. Both documents highlight the challenges faced by young people when it comes to addressing the overload of information and the need of ensuring the quality and visibility of YIC services. The Strategy goes further and underlines the necessity of creating a European Youth Information Quality Label easy to recognise by young people, based on their needs and on the principles of the European Youth Information Charter.
In this context and in the framework of our partnership with the Council of Europe, ERYICA worked on the development of a European Youth Information Quality Label throughout 2019 and 2020, designed for and with young people and linked to a set of quality assessment criteria, mechanisms and tools. ERYICA believes that such an initiative should be part of a broader development process involving young people and key actors in the European youth sector. A Working Group was set up to work on the label.
The first year of the planned two-year process produced promising outcomes, including a self-assessment tool, and found answers to the major questions regarding the management and sustainability of the Label. An Open Dialogue Day with stakeholders and a desk research supported the process. The Working Group proposed a management structure for the Label, which includes a youth review, a youth information mapping exercise and the designation of a task force. The Label was piloted in the course of 2020.
In the framework of the Partnership Agreement between the Council of Europe and ERYICA, the two organisations published the Youth Information and Counselling in Europe in 2020 booklet. The publication gives a thorough overview of organisations that coordinate youth information services in Europe and in certain cases provide youth information themselves. The booklet guides you through the continent and provides a snapshot as complete as possible about the state of the art of youth information and counselling in Europe in 2020. As well as a country overview and key data, for each organisation, the publication also showcases the implementation of the principles of the European Youth Information Charter and share brief good practice examples. The publication includes survey results about the current situation of youth information and counselling as well.
The publication can be read and downloaded free of charge here.
