Youth for Europe : Compendium 1995
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* * * * * * * EDUCATION TRAINING YOUTH YOUTH FOR EUROPE Compendium 1995 EUROPEAN COMMISSION * * * * * * * * * * EDUCATION TRAINING YOUTH YOUTH FOR EUROPE Compendium 1995 EUROPEAN COMMISSION A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997 ISBN 92-827-9429-6 © ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels · Luxembourg, 1997 Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged Printed in Belgium INTRODUCTION In 1995, more than 6000 young people received Community grants under the actions of the YOUTH FOR EUROPE programme, which is directly managed by the Commission of the European Union. This represents about 1000 projects lead by or for young people in the different Member States of the European Union and the eligible countries of the programme. This Compendium does not include all of the exchange projects, in excess of 2.500, financed by the programme's National Agencies. These exchange projects involve the mobility of more than 70.000 young people in Europe. YOUTH FOR EUROPE, adopted on 14 March 1995 for a period of five years, draws on considerable experience and has proved over time to be one of the main means of promoting a policy of cooperation for young people in Europe. This programme is constructed from diverse actions which overlap and complement each other to form a coherent whole. Aimed at contributing to the education of young people, some activities help them develop intercultural apprenticeships within their projects, or encourage them to strengthen cooperation with their partners, or give them the means to experiment with new working methods, or enable them to become directly involved in the life of their local community. YOUTH FOR EUROPE raises the awareness of young people, between the ages of 15 and 25, to the considerable role they play in constructing Europe. The projects which are submitted every year illustrate the extraordinary creativity of European youth and act as a barometer to their state of mind. They reveal the hopes, fears, expectations and enthusiasm of this section of the population preparing itself for transition to adult life. Each action of the programme follows specific aims and projects submitted are accepted as long as they have followed these aims as closely as possible. Apart from this requirement, however, everything or nearly everything is allowed as far as choice of theme, working methods, partners involved and implementation methods are concerned. It is because of this freedom that YOUTH FOR EUROPE has become a real "nursery" for innovative projects. The various actions are quite different one from the other. The main concern of the intra-Community exchanges is tolerance, the triumph of the multicultural over xenophobia and racism. Dynamic methods of communication are often used in these projects, such as theatre, music, audio-visual, dance, painting etc. Art is chosen as it is a universal language and reaches further than words. In projects involving third countries, young people focus on the future of the wider Europe, seen as a "unified yet diverse continent". Issues such as territory, national identity, cultural minorities may be found in the participants' debates. Here, it is less a question of celebrating diversity, but more the need to wipe out prejudices linked to the past and to engage in the process of European integration. The Youth Initiatives illustrate the willingness to make innovative practices available to other young people living in similar environments. The main aim of the projects is to show that young people are capable of undertaking and finishing what they have started. They want to create pockets of hope which rely on their own efforts and base their actions where they live in order to reinforce links with their local community. The young people have started writing newspapers, producing videogrammes, presenting radio programmes, but also putting new life into disused buildings, places of cultural interest, planting trees in old parts of town, creating small companies ... The youth leaders and Member State structures priorities' are, when they meet during study or training visits, to gain knowledge of working practices in the youth field, to provide access for all young people to European programmes and to encourage the transfer of know-how from one Member State to another. These activities help to improve the quality of exchanges and to create educational tools which are transferable to other Member States. The intercultural dimension is the main focus of these field workers. Cooperation between different Member State structures helps to consolidate the programme's firm base in each Member State whilst at the same time inciting promoters to create networks between themselves, as an example of real European cooperation in the youth field. Lastly, youth information completes the wide range of instruments aimed both at young people as well as at those who look after them in order to make the aims of the programme a reality. Altogether, the 1.000 projects which ran in 1995, illustrate the eagerness of young people to experience an active citizenship in and thanks to Europe. CONTENTS Action A.I Youth Exchanges and Mobility 7 Action A.II.1 Youth Initiatives 25 Action A.II.2 Periods of Voluntary Service 81 Action B.I Youth Workers 101 Action B.ll Support for European Cooperation on Training Youth Workers 107 Action C Cooperation between Member States' Structures 113 Action D Exchanges with Non-Member Countries 119 Exchanges with Eastern and Central European Countries (DEC) 119 Action D Exchanges with Non-Member Countries 137 Exchanges with Countries of the Confederation of Independent States (DUR) 137 Action D Exchanges with Non-Member Countries 151 Exchanges with Latin American Countries (DLA) 151 Action D Exchanges with Non-Member Countries 167 Exchanges with Mediterranean Countries (DME) 167 Action D Innovative Measures 179 Action E.I Information for Young People and Youth Research 181 LIST OF COUNTRY CODES USED EU: Central European: CIS: Mediterranean: Latin American: Austria A Albania ALB Armenia ARM Algeria DZR Argentina ARG Belgium B Bulgaria BG Belorussia BLR Cyprus CYP Bolivia BOL Denmark DK Estonia EST Russian Fed. RUS Egypt EGY Brazil BRA Finland SF Hungary HUN Georgia GEO Israel ISR Chile CHL France F Latvia LVA Moldovia MDA Jordon JOR Columbia COL Germany D Lithuania LTU Ukraine UKR Lebanon LBN Costa Rica CRI Greece GR Poland POL Malta MLT Cuba CUB Iceland ISL Czech Republic CZ Morocco MAR Ecuador ECU Ireland IRL Romania ROM Syria SYR Guatemala GTA Italy I Slovak Republic SVK OCC. TERR. Honduras HND Lichtenstein LI Slovenia SVN Tunisia TUN Mexico MEX Luxembourg L Turkey TUR Nicaragua NIC Norway N Panama PAN Portugal Ρ Paraguay PRY Spain E Peru PER Sweden S El Salvador SLV The Netherlands NL Uruguay URY United Kingdom UK Venezuela VEN YOUTH FOR EUROPE PROGRAMME ACTION A.I. - YOUTH EXCHANGES AND MOBILITY BELGIUM BENEFICIARY CENTRE VIDEO DE BRUXELLES Description An itinerant project, which will involve travelling to Brussels, Berlin, Lisbon and Montpellier with a multimedia performance. Each partner group will work on the theme "Power". The objectives of the projects are to provide young people with a creative means of expression, to develop a sense of identity and to interact with other groups. Project theme (s) Integration of disadvantaged young people; Media Contact person Wynands, Marcel Address Centre vidéo de Bruxelles rue Royale Ste Marie, 113 B-1030 Bruxelles Reference: A.J.C-BFR-01/95-3 BENEFICIARY WASHOUSE Description A group of young dancers from Β, GR, F and UK will come together in Brussels to explore issues of multiculturality, equality and discrimination, culminating in the creation of a performance combining dance and text, which will be performed as part of the European Cultural Heritage Day. Project theme (s) Cultural activities; Equality Contact person Usher. Sam Address Washouse rue Blaes, 150 B-1000 Brussel Reference: A.l.C-BNL-01/95-3 GERMANY BENEFICIARY INTERNATIONALER ARBEITSKREIS WESER-EMS IN EUROPAHAUS AURICH Description An exchange/seminar on the theme of Youth for Europe - what personal possibilities exist for overcoming frontiers? 30 disadvantaged young people (regions with a very high unemployment rate) from DK, D, EL, UK, NL. It will take place around the workshops of the future (Zukunftswerkstatt), a pedagogical method well known as part of extra-curricular school activities. Project theme (s) Integration of disadvantaged young children Contact person Oberdieck, Jochen Address Internationalev Arbeitskreis Weser-Ems im Europahaus Aurich Von-Jheringstrasse, 35 D-26603 Aurich Reference: A.l.C-D-02/95-2 YOUTH FOR EUROPE PROGRAMME BENEFICIARY JUGENDBDLDUNGSSTATTE K. LOWENSTEIN Description An exchange project on the theme of 1945-1995 : to forget or remember? Fifty years on in the "house of Europe". Forty young people from D, F, UK, I including 8 from Poland will take part. The event will use the theatre workshop technique to stimulate the creativity of the young people and involve them not only at a cognitive level, but also in an effective manner. Project theme (s) European issues Contact person de Vries, Henri J. Address Jugendbildungsstätte K. Löwenstein 3-4, Friedensstrasse D-12107 Berlin Reference: A.l.C-D-07/95-2 BENEFICIARY SERVICE CIVIL INTERNATIONAL