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The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe is organising a Seminar on "Raising young refugees' voices in Europe today" in cooperation with the UNHCR, that will take place at the EYC in Strasbourg from 26 October to 1st November 2008. You will find more information about the seminar and the relevant application form in the attached presentation. More info about the Directorate of Youth and Sport and other activities can be found on www.coe.int/youth

The European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA) is an independent European organisation, composed of national youth information co-ordination bodies and networks. It works to intensify European co-operation in the field of youth information work and services. It aims to develop, support and promote quality generalist youth information policy and practice at all levels, in order to meet the information needs of young people in Europe and to apply the principles of the European Youth Information Charter.

After many months of work, we are proud to present you our new, enhanced, coloured website. Be a visitor or a member, through these pages you will enjoy a number of services in an extremely user-friendly framework. The graphic is consistent yet enriches ERYICA's new visual identity: besides fulfilling the potential of the new logo, the theme of the rainbow is explored and developed, in order to picture a dinamic organisation active in the youth field and working for the benefit of young people.

On this special day we presented youth friendly version of the European Youth Information Charter – poster made by youngsters taking part in the workshop organizaed in Walles (youth exchange project with participants from Walles, Portugal and Czech Republic). This fine version of the European Youth Information Charter contains most of Charter principels expressed by several keywords. We created “Youth Infromation Day“ Banner to promote this day and joint activities on the websites of all Youth Information Centres around the country.

Digi.TO (www.digi.to.it) is the web community of Turin Youth Information Centre: working since November 2007, it was born in partnership with www.lastampa.it, the website of Turin national daily newspaper. Digi.TO addresses to young people between 18 and 30 years old and has been created to satisfy their need to seek on the Internet information related to the city they live: it aims to become an interactive tool, in order to make circulate information, knowledge and opportunities among youth.

Launching new edition Kidsguide, Life@1215 and Youth Guide They are printed, cutted and packed: the verry fresh informative guides for children, teenagers and youngsters. The last edition needed an update of the content, so we choose a reprint. The shape looks almost the same, only the cover and some format details allows you to see a difference between the latest and the new edition.. But don’t be surprised by the look of it, the information is indeed adapted to the actuality!

The French Youth Information network is celebrating April 17 with the launch of a poster of the revised European Youth Information Charter. This version in French will be disseminated to our network nationwide.