News

ERYICA team has just published its ERYICA Spring Newsletter 2009, which informs you not only about the events through the last three spring months in the field of youth information and youth policy, but also keeps your agenda busy with new events! To contribute to the ERYICA Newsletter - Summer 2009, send your articles to mariia.matsepa@eryica.org by August 15, 2009!

Within the framework of the First International Forum about Cooperation in Rural Development in Seville, Spain, June 8-10, 2009, a round table "Rural Youth and Their Access to Information" was held. The round table's discussions revolved around the following topics:

The Eurodesk AISBL is recruiting a Director. The successful candidate will manage the Eurodesk AISBL in supporting the Eurodesk network in close co-operation with the Eurodesk President and the Executive Committee, adapting the work of the network to meet the rapidly changing information needs of young people and those who work with them.  

Young people are a vulnerable group in a society where materialism and consumerism plays an important role: often, they are incited to buy expensive things they cannot necessarily afford, such as Internet facilities, mobile phones, laptops, MP3's, digital TVs inter alia.

Four ERYICA Member Organisations: MISSS (Slovenia), Canlaw (Wales), and In Petto (Flanders, Belgium) have recently come back from Finland, where they have participated in a Study Visit in Helsinki and Seinäjoki region. Read more about their impressions here! The inintiative to organise the Study Visit was taken by the Department of Youth Affairs in Seinäjok city, Finland.

The National Coordination and Development Centre of Youth Information and Counselling Services (Oulu, Finland) is reaching out to more and more municipalities in Finland, providing them with tools&knowledge upon how the e-democracy tool www.aloitekanava.fi can be fully used and explored. www.aloitekanava.fi is an online public debate programme, elaborated by the National Coordination and Development Centre of Youth Information and Counselling Services and Ponsi Interactive with the support from the Ministry of Education in Finland.

Promoting youth information centres take different forms in different environments. The Center for Exellence, Equality and Sustainable Development, Croatia, decided to promote youth info centres of Croatia via a concert "City of Youth-Voice of Solidarity" in Dvorana mladosti in Rijeka, Croatia, on May 22, 2009. The concert gathered famous Croatian singers: Tereza Kesovija, Radojka Šverko, Vinko Coce with klapa "Kampanel" and Group ENI, well known both locally and internationally.

Within the framework of the BYIFNT project, the ERYICA Training Task Force held its consecutive meeting in 2009 on 8 – 10 May (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) to elaborate new modules of youth information training material replacing  Minimum Basic Training Course (MBTC).

Within the framework of the bilateral exchange program between Ministries of Education in Finland and Estonia, a group of youth information workers from Estonia  and Finland  had a Study Visit in Helsinki and Turku, Finland (11  -  14 May, 2009), learning particularities of the youth information work in these cities. The  participants  visited Youth Information Centre Kompassi, Netari.fi (virtual youth house project), and Youth Information Centre Nuorten in Turku.

Do you or young people from your youth centre want to participate in the Euro-Mediterranean Training Course for Human Rights Education with Young People, June 21-29, 2009, Lebanon (venue of the Beirut Arab University in Debbiye, Lebanon)? Do you speak Arabic? Are you a resident of the one of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe? (the course is also open for the residents for the residents of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Gulf states)