CENYCCENYCCENYC CouncilCouncilCouncil ofofof EuropeanEuropeanEuropean NationalNationalNational YouthYouthYouth CommitteesCommitteesCommittees EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DEP Florence Mars 2006 Council of European National Youth Commitees © European University Institute - Historical Archives of the European Union, 1994-2006 Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated. 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Le numéro file correspondant à la côte d'archive doit être cité en note de référence des sources, doit être utilisée pour la demande de communication dans la salle de lecture des Archives historiques de l'Union européenne. © Historical Archives of the European Union 2 Council of European National Youth Commitees Tables of Contents CENYC Council of European National Youth Committees ___________________________4 CENYC.A Governing Bodies ______________________________________________________ 6 CENYC.A-01 General Assembly ______________________________________________________ 6 CENYC.A-02 Executive Committee ____________________________________________________ 7 CENYC.A-03 Bureau ______________________________________________________________ 11 CENYC.A-04 General Secretary _____________________________________________________ 13 CENYC.A-04.01 Registers ________________________________________________________ 13 CENYC.A-04.02 Circulars to members_______________________________________________ 13 CENYC.A-04.03 Accountancy _____________________________________________________ 17 CENYC.B Activities ____________________________________________________________ 18 CENYC.B-01 Seminars, Workshops etc. _______________________________________________ 18 CENYC.B-02 Relations with Member Youth Organisations and International Youth Federations ____ 24 CENYC.B-03 Relations with Non-Member Youth Organisations, notably from Eastern European Countries __________________________________________________________________________ 31 CENYC.B-04 All-European Youth and Student Cooperation (AEYSC) 1970-1992 _______________ 34 CENYC.C Relations with Council of Europe _________________________________________ 39 CENYC.C-01 Intergouvernmental Co-operation__________________________________________ 40 CENYC.C-02 European Youth Center (EYC) and European Youth Foundation (EYF) ____________ 44 CENYC.D Relations with United Nations and European Community ______________________ 49 CENYC.D-01 United Nations ________________________________________________________ 49 CENYC.D-02 European Communities _________________________________________________ 53 CENYC.E Publications__________________________________________________________ 54 © Historical Archives of the European Union 3 Council of European National Youth Commitees CENYC - Council of European National Youth Committees 1963-1996 10 linear metres, 200 files The Council of European National Youth Committees (CENYC) was founded on 23 March 1963 in London as a voluntary association of eleven National Committees of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY) (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom) and the two National Youth Councils of France and Luxembourg. Italy and Switzerland participated at the founding meeting, but only decided later to participate in the CENYC. Membership of the CENYC is open to representative National Youth Committees in Europe which are democratic according to the sense of the European Convention of Human Rights, which represent all main democratic tendencies active on the national level, which are open to all democratic youth organisations and which support measures and activities for the intensification of European youth work. For each country only one National Council can be admitted. CENYC confers observer status and invitations.;CENYC finances itself through affiliation fees from members, contributions from members and European institutions.;The principal tasks of CENYC are to serve as a forum for the exchange of information, to collect and study material concerning youth problems, to co-operate and obtain assistance from organisations and institutions active in the field of youth work and education and to support national youth committees in activities aiming at European unification. Every year several conferences and seminars are held aimed at tackling specific policy issues and to train youth leaders in international youth work. Special emphasis is given to enabling participants to share their international experience and allow them to disseminate such ideas in their own national situations. The organisation aims to promote democratic participation by young people within youth organisations and assist them to develop a European consciousness based on 'mutual respect and understanding through the creation of the awareness of the different traditions of the common European cultures'. CENYC has also a role as a link with other regions of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin-America. It plays an important role in developing East-west and Pan-European youth co-operation and it acts as a representative body on behalf of its members to the European institutions, governmental and non- governmental, and to other international bodies. Since the creation of the Council of Europe's European Youth Center and the European Youth Foundation CENYC has become member of its Advisory Board. In 1975 it was conferred the Advisory status with UNESCO. It collaborates closely with the 'European Co-ordination Bureau of International Youth Organisations' (ECB) (cf. deposit BEC).;In July 1996 the CENYC amalgamated with the 'Youth Forum of the European Communities' (YFEU) and the 'European Co-ordination Bureau of International Youth Organisations' (ECB) forming the 'European Youth Forum'. It consists of virtually complete series that give an insight into the educational and political activities of the CENYC since its creation in 1963 and allow to reconstruct the organised youth activities which were not only orientated towards existing political structures which mirrored the actual state of events, but were able to look ahead and give new ideas to the political and social establishment. Of particular interest is the fairly rich material about the contacts with the quickly establishing youth organisations and councils in Eastern part of Europe after 1989. Since the material was in a disorganised state on its arrival at the archives it has been subject of a complete rearrangement. Thematical and chronological series have been created taking into consideration the organisational structure of the CENYC and the activities that it carried out. Ruth Meyer-Belardini, May 2003. © Historical Archives of the European Union 4 Council of European National Youth Commitees The fonds arrived at the Historical Archives following a contract of deposit signed with the European Youth Forum in February 2001. The fonds is freely accessible. Reproduction is limited to 500 photocopies per researcher, per year. Language: ENGLISH;FRENCH;GERMAN;SPANISH © Historical Archives of the European Union 5 Council of European National Youth Commitees CENYC.A Governing Bodies CENYC.A-01 General Assembly The General Assembly is the supreme organ of the CENYC. It is composed of not more than three delegates from each member, who has one vote, and one delegate from observers. It is convended by the Executive Committe on a bi-annual basis, extraordinary sessions can be convened by the Executive Committee or upon demand of more than one- third of the members. The Assembly determines the main lines of policy and work and elaborates the guidelines for CENYC's programme and budget. It also elects the president and its five vice-presidents. File: CENYC-1 1964-1975 Meetings (1964-1975) File containing minutes and working papers of ordinary and extraordinary meetings of the General Assembly with agendas and lists of participants, documents and reports pertaining to the activities and management of CEYNC, such as the President's and Secretary General's reports on budgetary and administrative questions, the elaboration of the long and short term programme for seminars and conferences, membership questions, relations with the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), annual reports of member committees, relations with the Economic European Community (EEC), the European Free trade Area (EFTA) and the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD)