Welcome to the TC Rainbow Show

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European YOUTH Programme

• Welcome to the TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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WHY YOUTH ?

• Stimulate the mobility of young people
• Active participation in the development of Europe
  and of society
• Create European partnerships between
  organisations
• Fight against racism and xenophobia

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KEY WORDS

• Young people (individual or in group)
• In their free time non-formal education
• Intercultural learning as red line
• Gain knowledge, skills and competencies
• Inclusion as priority open to ALL young people

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FOR WHOM?

• Young people 15/18 25 years old
• Youth workers / youth leaders
• Youth organisations
• Project managers in the field of youth and
  non-formal education
• Other non-profit organisations, associations or
  structures

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Countries

• 31 Programme countries
• 25 EU Member States
• 3 EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and
  Norway)
• 3 Accession countries Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey

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2005 Priorities

• Inclusion of young people with fewer
  opportunities
• Promoting diversity and in particular reducing
  all forms of racism and xenophobia
• Follow-up of the European political cooperation
  in the youth field

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ACTIONS IN YOUTH

• Action 1 Youth for Europe
• Action 2 European Voluntary Service
• Action 3 Youth initiatives
• Action 5 Support Measures

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European YOUTH Programme

• TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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ACTION 1 Youth Exchanges  Youth for Europe 

• Bring groups of young people together
• Intercultural learning learn about other
  cultures and how young people live
• Active involvement of the young people on a
  specific theme chosen by the young people

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ACTION 1Youth for Europe

• Formal criteria
• Age 15 - 25 years
• Number of participants 16 - 60
• Duration exchange 6 till 21 days
• Bilateral trilateral - multilateral

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ACTION 1 Youth for Europe

• Content criteria
• Active involvement of the young people
• Red line or theme
• Co-operation between the partner groups
• Intercultural and local dimension
• Programme and methods Active dimension
• Preparation and follow-up

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European YOUTH Programme

• TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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ACTION 2 European Voluntary Service

• Voluntary service in a non-profit project
• Strong learning experience for the volunteer
• New European partnerships between organisations

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ACTION 2 EVS

• Formal criteria
• Age volunteer 18-25 years
• Long term projects 6 till 12 months
• Short term 3 weeks till 6 months for youngsters
  with fewer opportunities

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ACTION 2 EVS

• Formal criteria
• Triangle volunteer - sending organisation
  host organisation

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ACTION 2 EVS

• Content criteria
• Good preparation, evaluation and follow-up
• Training and supervision for the volunteer
• Balanced tasks between learning and service
• Strong partnership
• Involvement of the volunteer

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European YOUTH Programme

• TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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ACTION 3 Youth Initiatives

• Aims
• to support young peoples initiative, creativity
  and active participation
• To chance to try out ideas through initiatives
  run by themselves in the local community

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ACTION 3Youth initiatives

• Action 3.1. Group Initiatives
• Action 3.2 Future Capital

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ACTION 3.1.Group initiatives

• Small scale and innovative projects
• Projects created and run by a group of young
  people
• Contribution to their local community
• With a European dimension

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ACTION 3.1.Group initiatives

• Formal criteria
• Age participants15 till 25 years
• Number of participants min. 4
• Duration 3 till 12 months

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ACTION 3.1.Group initiatives

• Content criteria
• Innovative in their context
• Run by young people
• Coming from a local need
• With a European dimension

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ACTION 3.1.Group initiatives

• Priority 1 run by young people with fewer
  opportunities and which benefit to the local
  community max. 10.000
• Priority 2 run by any young people and which
  benefit young people with fewer opportunities
  max. 7.500
• Priority 3 run by any young people and which
  benefit mainly the members of the group max.
  5.000

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Action 3 Networking projects

• aims at identifying good practices and
  transferring the outcomes resulting
• Usually after a Group Initiative
• Cooperate with similar projects in other
  countries
• added value

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European YOUTH Programme

• TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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ACTION 5 Support Measures

• Aims
• To develop the other YOUTH actions through
  training, co-operation and information projects
• To contribute achieving the objectives of the
  YOUTH programme and strengthening European youth
  policy
• To support the capacity building and innovation
  with regard to international training and
  co-operation in the field of youth work

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ACTION 5 Support Measures

• Target group
• Youth workers on local, regional, national and
  international level
• trainers
• Groups of young people who want to set up an
  international project
• Mentors of EVS projects
• ...

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ACTION 5 Support Measures

• Key terms of action 5
• Co-operation and partnerships
• Training measures
• Youth information

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The nine types of activity eligible for support

• 1. Practical training experience (job shadowing)
• 2. Feasibility visits
• 3. Contact-making seminars
• 4. Study visits
• 5. Seminars
• 6. Training courses
• 7. Youth information
• 8. Transnational partnerships and networks
• 9. Support for capacity building and innovation

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European YOUTH Programme

• TC Rainbow Show
• Brasov, 20 October 2005

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DEADLINES

• 1 FEBRUARY Start project from 1st May
• 1 APRIL Start project from 1st July
• 1 JUNE Start project from 1 st September
• 1 SEPTEMBER Start project from 1st December
• 1 NOVEMBER Start project from 1st February

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ROLE OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY

• Information and promotion
• Advice and counselling
• Training and quality support
• Assessment and granting

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TO END

• Good luck with all your national and
  international plans and project ideas
• Dont hesitate to contact your National Agency!

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YOUTH PROGRAMME Users guide
http//europa.eu.int/comm/youth/program/index_en.h
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http//www.salto-youth.net
European Youth Portal http//europa.eu.int/youth
http//www.eryica.org/webportal
http//www.eurodesk.org
http//www.euro26.org