CM (99) 67 ... Annual report on the activities of the European Centres (Strasbourg and Budapest)  for 1998

Committee of Ministers

Comité des Ministres

Strasbourg, 21 May 1999

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CM(99)67

For consideration at the 675th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies

(15 June 1999, B level, item 8.1)

ANNUAL REPORT

On the activities of the

EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRES

 

Strasbourg and Budapest

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Contents

 

1. MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE YOUTH FIELD

2. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRES

Following the initiatives of young people

 

2.1 Study sessions

2.2 New training developments

2.3 Symposia and consultative meetings

2.4 Programmes with Central and Eastern Europe

2.5 Research and documentation

 

3. EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BUDAPEST

Exploring new working methods

 

4. PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

A step towards complementarity

 

APPENDIX – Programme of the European Youth Centres

I.    Study sessions– Strasbourg

II.    Study sessions – Budapest

III.    Training courses

IV.    Activities for the development and consolidation of Democratic stability in central and eastern Europe countries (ADACS)

V.    Evaluation meetings

VI.    Language courses

VII.    Consultative meetings

VIII.    Research and documentation

IX.    Activities financed by sources other than the Centre’s budget

    Strasbourg

    Budapest

X.    Statutory meetings

XI. Publications

 

Tables

I.    Participants in EYCs activities

II.    Participants in EYCs study sessions

III.    Participants in training and language courses

IV.    Participants in EYCs activities by age

V.    Self-financed activities (Budapest)

 

 

1. MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE YOUTH FIELD

During 1998, the activities of the European Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest were marked by four major developments:

The evaluation of the experimental period of the European Youth Centre in Budapest

which led to the decision of the Committee of Ministers to make this Centre a permanent structure of the Council of Europe and the elaboration of a certain number of proposals concerning the role and function of this establishment (see point 3 below);

The evaluation procedure of the structures and programme of the youth sector

which resulted in the adoption by the Committee of Ministers of Resolution (98) 6 on the youth policy of the Council of Europe as well as the reform of the statutory organs of the youth sector and of the Statutes of the Centres and Foundation. This reform aims notably at moving the action of the youth sector towards the priorities of the Organisation, at demarcation of the attributions of each of the organs in this sector in the spirit of co-management, at taking better note of the new realities of young people and of youth work in Europe and increasing the co-operation with other sectors of the Council of Europe where the youth field is concerned.

The 5th European Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth

which defined the main aims of work for the youth sector (including the Centres and the Foundation) for the years ahead. The Conference particularly underlined the necessity to encourage new forms of organisations and youth participation, to develop an intersectorial youth policy, to support new forms of European co-operation (regional co-operation) and to ensure a better involvement of disadvantaged or excluded young people in the work of the Council of Europe. The Committee of Ministers’ Resolution (98) 6 reaffirmed these guidelines and further emphasised the role of new information technologies, young people’s access to information and the need to analyse and develop national youth policy structures.

The signature and implementation of the first Covenant between the Council of Europe and the European Commission

aiming at a joint programme for the training of youth leaders and the production of educational material and tools. This programme, covering a period of six months (November 1998 – April 1999) will be followed by a second Covenant for a period of one year, followed by a third one for a programme to cover five years.

2. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRES

Following the initiatives of young people

The following activities were carried out in the framework of the 1998 programme of the European Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest :

42 study sessions

of youth organisations

9 training courses

for leaders of youth organisations

8 language courses

for leaders of youth organisations

2 consultative meetings

1 symposium

8 activities for the development and consolidation of democratic stability

in central and eastern Europe.

1 meeting of national research correspondants

in the field of research in Europe

2.1 Study sessions

Although, over the last years, in an answer to the new realities and needs of international youth work in Europe, the activities of the European Youth Centres were aimed more towards the training of leaders of youth organisations and networks, the study sessions represent the most important part of the programmes of the EYCs.

With their own particularities, notably due to their geographic situation, their infrastructures and institutional links, the European Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest constitute two unique places in Europe where youth organisations and networks can concretely participate towards the construction of Europe and contribute to the work of the Council of Europe, study the problems concerning young people and share the experience of intercultural learning.

Each study session is proposed by a youth organisation or network sometimes in co-operation with other organisations and submitted to the decision-making organs of the Centres and Foundation who approve the holding of the activity, based notably on criteria such as policy (priority of the youth sector), education or geography (multilateral dimension). Each study session is prepared, led and evaluated in close co-operation with a member of the educational team of the Centres.

The themes of the study sessions are equally proposed by the youth organisations and networks and must be in line with the priorities of work of the youth sector of the Council of Europe. In 1998, the study sessions mainly covered the following themes :

Youth work and structures, the role of youth organisations and networks in civil society (9 study sessions)

- the values proposed by the youth associations

- the future of associative life in Europe

- training activities for youth leaders

- management of projects / evaluation of projects

- youth participation in the union movement

- the role of youth

Human Rights (7 study sessions)

- the study of / education for human rights

- the contribution of young people to human rights

- conscientious objection (improvement of national legislation)

- linguistic rights

- poverty and human rights

Europe / European construction / European identity (6 study sessions)

- European citizenship

- Popular culture : contribution to European integration

- East/West/North/South relations

- East/West relations 9 years after the fall of the Wall of Berlin

- The role of universities in an experiential society

Education for peace / tolerance (6 study sessions)

- tolerance and solidarity

- peace concepts, non-violent cultures

- work for peace and tolerance

- training for pacific strategies in decision-making

- training for mediation

- violence against women

Social exclusion / poverty (4 study sessions)

- training for volunteers

- exclusion / integration

- the situation of young people in rural areas of central and eastern Europe

- alternative employment

Minorities (4 study sessions)

- training of Roma youth leaders

- minorities in Europe

- minorities / majorities : integration or exclusion

- discrimination of women of ethnical minorities

Information / media (3 study sessions)

- new information technologies : impact on youth work and democracy

- different approaches to youth information

- media and democracy

North / South dialogue (2 study sessions)

- North / South solidarity

- sustainable development : a North / South challenge

Prevention of drug addiction (1 study session)

 

2.2 New training developments

Innovation and consistency in training

The Youth Directorate has kept the training in line with the policy priorities defined in its 1998 training programme. The training for democratic and active citizenship, facing up to social exclusion and multi-cultural realities, as well as the promotion of minority youth work, youth cultures and lifestyles are at the centre of the training work. The training offer has also been carried out in consultation or direct co-operation with other Directorates or linked with pilot initiatives.

Consistent follow-up

The Youth Directorate has followed up the work with minority youth leaders through appropriate training offers, focused on their reality in Europe. A long-term training offer was specially geared at the situation of young people with a minority background, as well as a training offer for young Roma people. As a follow to the "All Different, All Equal" campaign, the Governing Board insisted on turning the initial pilot project on « Participation and Citizenship » into a programme offer on a three year basis. It also decided to ensure a better publication of the results of this training and published a guide consisting of a concise overview of the projects developed during the courses (Activity 38 EYC Budapest).

The promotion of active citizenship and autonomy of youth work has been in the focus of a number of organisations. They transformed the more traditional study sessions into a direct training offer to their member organisations, very often increasing their skills for a better running of their organisation and direct projects. They also focused on specific capacity building activities, in the field of new technologies, communication and public presentation.

Consultation on the training offer

Training innovation, consistent with policy decisions was another focus point in 1998. Two consultative meetings (on intercultural learning and the Youth Directorate’s Educational Programme) took place. The results were already taken into account in the development of the training offer in 1998, but even more so in the training offer of 1999.

The consultative meeting on Intercultural learning had, as its major objective, to reflect on the intercultural dimension in the Youth Directorate’s programme as a whole, in close co-operation with the other Directorates. Its intention was to reinforce its position in this programme and particularly in the training offer. This resulted in some training activities focused specifically on intercultural learning (methodological approaches and impact on language learning), which will be taken up in a more specific way in 1999. This has been a break-through in the training offer of the Youth Directorate, going towards more specialised training offers, specifically targeted to those working in the field.

Further innovation took place in the development of a training offer in line with some of the priority policy areas of the intergovernmental co-operation: mediation, youth information, children’s municipal councils and transnational voluntary service. The training offers usually directly correspond to newly established partnerships in the youth field. Such offers make it possible for these partnerships to develop the training dimension in their programmes more strongly.

New initiatives

In co-operation with the Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport, a Seminar on "Youth Cultures, Lifestyles and Citizenship" took place in the European Youth Centre in Budapest. It gave an opportunity to explore particular means of co-operation between the two Directorates, as well as the widening of subject areas (bringing arts and creativity in the focus of attention) and the rallying of new partners (young artists, youth workers, teachers and young people) in a joint activity. The search for new forms of tackling questions of active citizenship and democratic society is fundamental to these partnerships. The activity is described in more detail under the innovative activities of the EYC in Budapest.

Constant innovation

The training offer is under constant innovation, first of all in its variety of training offers put forward to the increasingly diverse target groups, but also in its innovative search for new methodological approaches. One of the aims for 1998 was the innovation of methodologies such as experiential learning, new training techniques (use of theatre, music) as well as reflection on the consequences of having several educational approaches meet.

The focus of attention is the needs of the youth workers, whether organised in youth services, youth organisations and networks or as young civil servants. A client-centred approach involves the ‘client’ - the experienced ‘user’ - directly in the training offer and develops the training offer around this request. Made-to-measure, but at the same time consistently pursuing the values of the Council of Europe, this approach avoids a purely skill-centred approach to learning.

Co-operation with the Formal Education Sector

The Youth Directorate also continues to familiarise itself with developments in the formal education sector in order to find new ways of promoting professional youth worker training through educational initiatives at European level. The Youth Sector has been involved since 1993 in the setting up of a Masters Degree in Comparative European Social Studies, also applicable to youth worker training and allowing for a completely new work area to be introduced in the work of the Youth Directorate. These contacts will be intensified in the future.

Conclusion

A greater recognition of the contribution of the Youth Directorate to non-formal education and new partnerships is essential, both for the individual participant of the training courses and for the sending organisations. The Youth Directorate has a central role to play in the work of the non-formal and non-governmental sectors in its promotion of active citizenship of young people at the European level.

2.3 Symposia and consultative meetings

A symposium on the participation of young people in rural development was organised in co-operation with the International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth (MIJARC), the European Committee of Young Farmers, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE).

A consultative meeting on the programme of the Youth Directorate allowed for an evaluation of the programme of this sector taking into consideration the present priorities of the Council of Europe and its youth policy and drawing up guidelines for a programme more adapted to future challenges.

A second consultative meeting was organised to reflect on the role of intercultural learning in the work carried out by the Youth Directorate and to reinforce this important aspect of international work in the youth field.

2.4 Programmes with central and eastern Europe

Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it would be wrong to believe that the question of central and eastern Europe no longer exists. To write about the division which Europe suffered is not be nostalgic: it is simply to recognise that one cannot immediately erase forty, fifty even seventy years of history, each case being individual but with common characteristics. Maybe we misuse the concept of "societies in transition", however, it reflects the change, as well as the instability, which accompanies economic and social change but also – and above all – the cultural change to which societies are subjected, (recognising yet again that the issues are not the same for Hungary, Georgia, Estonia or Albania).

The reality of young people cannot be understood outside this context because young people are vectors of this transition as consumers and in terms of values and cultural references. They are also carriers of the past as subject and object as they participate in the transition and they suffer from the consequences of this disruption. The democratisation of the central and eastern European countries can thus be measured by the place that young people occupy in society (economic reality, social, cultural but also social representation of young people), as a result of the youth policies which are elaborated.

In this context, notably through the ADACS programme, the specific objectives of the Youth Directorate can be formulated in the following manner:

- to encourage co-operation between the different actors (governmental authorities, local authorities, youth associations, youth groups, researchers ….) in order to develop youth policies for the encouragement of the participation of young people in society as a means of consolidating civil societies including the development of youth associations and places of non-formal education;

- to encourage political training, particularly in the form of participation of young people in debates on social matters and in management of public space;

- to encourage intercultural dialogue as an indispensable basis for peaceful development and democratisation of societies;

- to better understand how the young people of central and eastern Europe perceive and reflect on European integration.

These objectives could be achieved either in the framework of the activities of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation (by increasing the number of young people from central and eastern Europe in the various activities and by increasing the number of projects supported in these countries) or within the specific framework of the ADACS programme.

In 1998 the following activities took place:

- Seminar on the "Future of non-governmental youth work in Bosnia Herzegovina", organised jointly in co-operation with the European Youth Forum, the OSCE and with the support of the Republic of San Marino;

- Pilot training course on the implementation of youth policy and youth work in Europe at the European Youth Centre Budapest;

- Summer University for the new members of the CDEJ;

- Training course for youth leaders and civil servants responsible for youth questions in Bulgaria;

- First phase of the long-term training course for leaders of children's’ organisations and civil servants responsible for children's’ issues in Bulgaria on the theme "children at risk", carried out in co-operation with the DASE;

- Training course for leaders of youth organisations and civil servants responsible for youth matters in Romania;

- Study visit on youth policies in Albania;

- Preparation of the first phase of the long-term training course for leaders of children's’ organisations and civil servants responsible for children's’ issues in the Russian Federation.

These activities facilitated, in particular :

- The creation of places for dialogue between the different partners engaged in the setting up of youth policies; dialogue which sometimes is still difficult to establish as much for intercultural as political reasons (the youth sector showing the same political division as society as a whole);

- To underline the role which non-formal education could / should play in the integration of young people in society;

- To reflect upon and clarify the different instruments necessary for the implementation of a youth policy;

To support youth organisation projects aiming at:

- Setting up a youth forum in Bosnia Herzegovina;

- Setting up an educational documentation centre for the different scout movements in the Russia Federation;

- Creating a Youth Parliament in the Republic of Kalmyk;

- Promoting an intercultural dialogue between young people of different national minorities in Romania;

- Recognising students’ organisations as an independent political force in Romania;

- Promoting a dialogue between the youth organisations and their platforms in Albania.

2.5 Research and documentation

The Research and Documentation Unit provides support for the Council’s youth policy, in respect of both the educational activities carried out by the EYCs and the EYF and those carried out in the framework of the intergovernmental co-operation.

The key aims of the Unit are:

- to encourage research co-operation in the youth field

- to promote dialogue between researchers, policy makers and youth workers

- to facilitate the dissemination of relevant youth research and information on the Directorate’s activities

The Unit runs a Network of National Youth Research Correspondents in Europe. The network promotes co-operation between researchers and actors disseminating research results and facilitates the use of research information in the policy making.

The network of Correspondents published in 1998 the first edition of the annual "European Youth Trends" report – a research-based outlook on recent trends in the European youth field.

The report emphasises that the nature of modern youth is changing. Primarily this concerns the social conditions of young people and their socialisation process . The situation of youth today is characterised by the parallel development of increased and more individualised risks and possibilities. There is a growing risk of exclusion of young people with a minority background, those living in disadvantaged areas in big cities and rural areas, those with disabilities and those who have been brought up by single parents, by parents who are both unemployed, and those coming from multi-problem families. At the same time there are increased possibilities for young people to realise their individual identities and develop their capacities and competence through education, international mobility, cultural and leisure activities, new information technology, etc.

The report also finds that the socialisation process of young people in today’s Europe is changing. Despite the longer presence in educational institutions, and prolonged economic dependence, modern youth is characterised by a relatively high, and growing, level of social-cultural independence of institutions and even a growing tendency among young people to oppose institutional control. This means that young people operate and learn more and more in the fields of non-formal learning and the report concludes: Much of the socialisation process takes place now through peer interaction, the media, and in the consumption process.

The European Youth Trends 1998 thus implies that, as the European youth scene is changing so quickly with its contradictory tendencies, there is a need to follow these changes closely, reflect on them and adapt youth policies and youth work to them. This is a challenge the Council of Europe Youth Sector has to face, to open up to new concepts, working methods and new partners and to strengthen its role in promoting non-formal learning in co-operation with other sectors.

The Unit has started to update its research databank, which already contains more than 1000 references originating from 16 countries. "The European Youth Research Directory" with information on youth research institutes, youth researchers, research projects, research networks, libraries and intergovernmental partners is another tool for co-operation in the research and youth policy field. The Research and Documentation Unit is also working on the "European Youth Research Bibliography" which is located at the Stockholm University Library and available for on-line consultation.

All the above mentioned publications, directories and data bases are available free of charge on the Internet (www.coe.fr/youth). A list of publications produced in 1998 appears at the end of the Appendix.

The EYC Library in Strasbourg has supplied the Budapest Centre’s educational activities with bibliographies, books, periodicals and other materials and has provided information on the Council of Europe and the Youth Centres for internal and external users. The total number of enquiries per year have doubled since 1995 up to 665 in 1998. Furthermore, the Library is involved in developing the network of other European libraries specialising in youth matters.

 

3. EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BUDAPEST

Exploring new working methods

1998 marked the third year in the short life of the European Youth Centre Budapest and its most crucial one. Following an Evaluation Report of the former Permanent Representatives of Greece and Norway and of the Ambassador in office of Lithuania, Chairman of the Rapporteur Group on Youth, the Committee of Ministers decided unanimously, on 11 November 1998, to make the European Youth Centre Budapest a permanent establishment of the Council of Europe. This recognition of the work of the first years, which was often carried out under very difficult circumstances, meant a lot to the users of the Centre, the statutory organs of the youth field and the Hungarian authorities. With the ongoing restructuring of the youth field of the Council of Europe and the need for some fresh blood and a new beginning, the consequences of the recommendations of the Wise Persons Report and the implementation of the Resolution of the Committee of Ministers on Youth, it will now be interesting to see what place the European Youth Centre Budapest will take in the new architecture concerning the Youth Directorate and the Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport which is now on the agenda of the Council of Europe.

The final report on the Evaluation of the European Youth Centre Budapest highlighted in this respect some of its particularities and might point in the right direction:

1) Already, this Centre is not 'youth territory' only. From the outset it is also meant to serve the other Directorates of the Council of Europe. The Directorate for Education, Culture and Sport (DECS) has been the Directorate making most use of the place and by looking into the character of the activities carried out in Budapest the Permanent Representatives came to the conclusion to recommend to the Committee of Ministers a new name: "European Centre for Youth, Culture and Education - Budapest". This proposal is presently on the agenda of the Rapporteurs' Group on Youth.

2) The Centre covers 25% of its budget through the holding of self-financed activities. Next to the obvious effect of increasing the budget, this approach has also led to a very service-minded Centre and to a realistic idea about finding new partners - they often appear as clients for holding one of their activities in this Centre. The business approach of providing proper services to clients of the Centre and the standing practice of running a public service with public funds are not, in the case of the Centre, are not obstructive but complementary.

3) The Centre has become a regular meeting point for all kinds of civil society initiatives in Budapest, in Hungary and in the region as a whole. The main impact of the Centre is, naturally, in the fields of education and training, but there is also an increasing role in the instruction of young people on European matters.

The Centre is thus increasing the transversal nature of youth activities in the Council of Europe; it is operating its budget with a high degree of flexibility with a view to generating outside financial resources. It becomes increasingly visible as an international house of exchange of ideas and examples of good practice in the development of civil society.

The 1998 programme is the evidence of these observations. The Centre held a total of 114 activities, 43 of them part of the ordinary budget of the Youth Directorate. The other 70 self-financed activities split up as follows:

13 activities of other Council of Europe Directorates (5 from DECS );

2 activities of agencies of the European Commission;

12 activities of NGOs, co-operating with the Council of Europe;

25 activities with Hungarian partners;

18 activities with various agencies and services.

Regular partners of the Centre within its programme of self-financed activities have become: the World Bank, the Commission of the European Union, UNICEF, UNESCO, the International Commission of the Red Cross, the International Institute for Democracy, the Minority Rights Group, the World Scout Movement.

Hungarian partners or Budapest based Foundations working with the Centre are: Ministry for Agriculture, Ministry for Education and Culture (until September), State Secretariat for Youth in the Prime Ministers' Office (until 1. January 1999, then: Ministry for Youth and Sports), Rakoczi Ferenc School, Mobilitas Youth Service, Drug Prevention Foundation, Hannah Arendt Association, Soros Foundation, Hungarian Society for Criminology, etc.

Other users of the Centre have been: the Austrian Embassy, the Coventry Council of Voluntary Youth Services, the International City Management Association, the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara, the Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen and the Office Quebec/Wallonie.

Finally, there have been official visits of a governmental delegation of Romania and the Moldavian Youth Council. All this is reported here to show, that the European Youth Centre Budapest has established a regular practice of co-operation with international institutions, with Hungarian authorities and civil society organisations, with youth services from anywhere in Europe and, modestly, with youth authorities in the region.

This being said, the heart of the Centre's activity remains its programme of study sessions and training courses of the Youth Directorate. These programmes are in the majority, information, education and training initiatives promoting greater social cohesion and obstructing the increasing exclusion of young people. In central and eastern Europe where, according to Western standards of social exclusion, whole populations and large geographical areas might be considered as socially excluded, this seems to be a realistic and appropriate way of proving the topicality of the work of the youth associations and networks working regularly with the Council of Europe. Other thematic trends to be observed in this part of the programme are minorities and, more generally, work for more tolerance in the wake of the European Campaign against Racism, Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia and Intolerance, which, in the youth field, has never ended. A third outstanding trend in several programmes has to do with autonomy, self-government and civil responsibility, with creativity and cultural expression.

What has there been in the programme in terms of innovation or particular interest? There are a few examples worthy of presentation:

1) Activity 24 "Culture and Media. A programme for young journalists from Brussels, Budapest and Montreal".

What makes the same piece of news a headline in Brussels, a 'no mention' in Montreal and a piece of 'various news' in Budapest ? How much does a location make the news? This activity was financed by the Office Quebec/Wallonie and put together by staff from the agency and Budapest staff. The task was to find young journalists from Brussels, Budapest and Montreal and make them work and produce together. One week of the activity, the starter, was held in Budapest, a follow-up seminar in Brussels, the last part, planned for Montreal, is still outstanding. The activity was both a success and a failure. A success in as much as it was possible to find young, creative and motivated journalists and make them work and produce together. A failure as to the aspect of cultural reflection, i.e. this activity became a vocational training exercise rather than an experiment in intercultural learning. Thus the initial questions remained without an answer, but some 25 young journalists from three countries formed a lasting network which is not a negligible achievement.

2) Activity 38 "A pilot training course on empowerment of minority youth in Europe"

This is one of the Long Term Training Courses within the educational programme of the Youth Directorate. Participation and citizenship are the two main objectives and such a course comprises a two week initiation phase, a six months project phase and another 10 day evaluation phase. The course is meant for voluntary youth workers who have to apply for the activity. A selection for the 30 places available often has to be made from hundreds of applications. - participants from the new member countries are given priority. People may come from municipalities, associations, agencies or any other youth service structure; what counts for their invitation is the quality of the youth work project they submit. The course is a real innovation, combining to good effect the traditions of intercultural learning, work with minorities and the openness of the youth field to new partners. Still a pilot course, the activity is on its way to becoming a regular component of the Youth Directorate’s programme.

3) Activity 78 "Multilateral Training Course for Civil Servants and Youth NGOs from central and eastern Europe"

Financed within the ADACS programme this course, also known as the 50 / 50 seminar, was an experiment for the youth field: it brought together young civil servants and youth leaders from the new democracies within the same programme and with an equally shared composition of participants. This may not sound very sensational, but given the traditional segregation of governmental and non-governmental milieus in the Council of Europe's youth training facilities this was a big step forward. After some initial difficulties, which the 'mixed team' of CDEJ representatives, Youth Forum leaders and Youth Directorate staff could address competently, this activity turned out to be a great success and should regularly appear in the Youth Directorate’s programme.

4) Activity 107 "Youth Cultures, Lifestyles and Citizenship"

Part of the "Education for Democratic Citizenship" programme and the action plan, this important activity was planned, financed and run in close co-operation between the Youth Directorate and the Directorate of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS). A large-scale activity bringing together about 100 participants, this was another example of the relevance of transversal co-operation. Culture workers, teachers, social workers and youth workers should work together, but it is common knowledge that they usually don't. Here they did, and very successfully. An example for the future?

5) Activity 111 "Seminar for young political leaders from Northern and Southern Cyprus"

This activity of the International Institute for Democracy was the second of its kind in Budapest - previously, in 1997, a similar activity had been held under the auspices of the Governing Board of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation. An encouraging example of what is often experienced in the youth field - that a good learning experience can overcome existing barriers and prejudices for young people.

The five examples presented are, each and every one of them, an illustration of the uniqueness of working with a well equipped building, competent staff profiting from the years of experience the Council of Europe has developed in the field of youth training, intercultural learning and citizenship training. To overcome spiritual barriers and prejudice, it is good to be able to trust in people working within a permanent training structure; to compensate for the loss of identity and the insecurity which go together with international work it is good to 'come back' to a well known place and when this place is part of a metropolitan environment like Budapest, this can only contribute to the success of the work.

The highly symbolic political character of the Centres of Strasbourg and Budapest has often been underlined. In the case of the Budapest Centre this has not only been acknowledged by the Evaluation Report of the Permanent Representatives, but also by another evaluation carried out by the Governing Board. This evaluation, focused more on the comments of users and institutional representatives within the statutory organs and underlined, once again, how important the educational instruments of the Youth Directorate have become in the ongoing discussion on non-formal education in Europe.

4. PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

A step towards complementarity

Co-operation with other institutions and in particular with the DG XXII Education, Training and Youth of the European Commission has played a central role in the development of the training offer of the Youth Directorate in 1998.

Made-to-measure

The co-operation is based on a very simple fact: both institutions are largely working towards the same basic values of human rights, the rule of law, pluralist democracy and the active involvement of citizens in civil society, but they have different tools at their disposal to implement those principles. In the youth field, the Commission elaborated a series of programmes directly relating to the situation of young people; the Council has a long standing experience in training youth trainers. The idea to pool those experiences and to allow a coherent and synergetic approach to European Youth Worker training is not new but was more systematically explored in 1998, resulting in the signature of a Partnership Agreement between the two institutions.

The main aims of the partnership programme, within the values proper to both institutions, are to develop a coherent youth worker training at European level and to provide better access of volunteers and professionals to this kind of training. The training of youth workers from very different backgrounds provides a backbone for active citizens' development in our societies and for associative life. In the longer run a better recognition of this training, as a component of non-formal education, both at the level of the European institutions and of the member States, is sought.

In order to do this. appropriate training courses and modules were elaborated as part of a joint programme and incorporated as part of the agreement. An important objective is also to keep up with new emerging trends in the youth worker field as well as to provide training on new developments in areas related to the youth field (information, intercultural learning, etc). This allows for better co-operation among all the actors in the youth field - NGOs with a large experience in youth worker training, as well as more specialised trainers and institutes - in order to provide a privileged place for the voluntary sector to acquire the necessary qualifications to enhance youth work in Europe.

Measured-to-fit

The Partnership Agreement does not only inscribe itself in the political objectives of both institutions and their respective decision-making bodies, but also responds to a need for more coherence in the field of youth worker training.

The proposed programme responds to the needs identified by the partner organisations of the Youth Directorate, but also allows new target groups to have better access to the programmes of the Directorate. In order to do this, three main tools are being better exploited: the extension of the training offer to new areas and new target publics; the publication of educational materials, thus improving better dissemination of training results and methodologies and lastly, the networking of experienced trainers through provision information about developments in the training field.

The joint programme improves the visibility of the sector and allows higher responsiveness to the extended target publics and priority themes. Both institutions, in search of quality training and the application of high training standards for youth worker training, envisage a common recognition of the qualifications obtained.

Covenant

The Partnership Agreement was laid down, in a first covenant, to last until the end of April 1999 and the first activities took place as from the end of 1998. The Committee of Ministers agreed to the opening of a Special Account in order to allow the necessary flexibility in the running of the joint programme. Provisions have already been made for a second covenant which will allow the continuation of the programme without extra administrative barriers.

The activities run under the first covenant are fully in line with the priorities of the Youth Directorate: the self-organisation of minority youth (for example the Rom youth training course); the deepening of certain aspects of intercultural learning (intercultural language learning and teaching) as well as the organisation of trans-national voluntary service projects. First provisions have been made to collect materials for publication on issues such as intercultural learning, organisational management, project management and sharing of best practices. The editorial committee of a quarterly newsletter has met and developed content proposals for the first issue.

Technical Working Party

The co-operation with the Commission has been intensified in order to run the existing programmes but also to follow the development of the new covenant in its content and practical development. A daily electronic exchange takes place on the details of the partnership (finances, trainers, meetings, training activities) and a regular technical working party (every one to two months) develops the more conceptual framework of the agreement. It also prepares for the consultation of the regular partners of the Directorate and reaches out to new partners (individuals and institutions). A large needs assessment seminar and future vision building have been prepared by the Technical Working Party. Next to the Secretariat of both the Commission and the Council, the statutory bodies (governmental and non-governmental) are represented on the working party.

Expected outcomes

The expected outcome is that, through the intensified contact between the two institutions, the clients (youth workers from very diverse backgrounds) are better catered for in terms of quality training and a better multiplier effect is being obtained through more emphasis on the spreading of the tools developed, as well as the regular information exchange between qualified trainers and institutions. Youth work as a contribution to the development of civil society is thus largely promoted.

The partnership project is a clear step forward in the co-operation between the two European institutions. Negotiations are taking place in view of obtaining, after an initial two year experimental period, a long term commitment from both institutions to intensified co-operation in the field of European Youth Worker Training.

 

A P P E N D I X

PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRES

I. STUDY SESSIONS IN STRASBOURG

1.    Service Civil International (SCI)

"United we stand, divided we fall - External Representation "

(11-18 January 1998)

2.   European Good Templar Youth Federation (EGTYF)

"Youth-made media promoting an alcohol and drug-free lifestyle

" (25 January - 1 February 1998)

3.    International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth (IFLRY)

"Human Rights "

(22 February - 1 March 1998)

4.    World Student Christian Federation (WSCF)

"What kind of Europe do we want? "

(22 February - 1 March 1998)

5.    European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS/UEEJ)

"European Active Citizenship"

(1-8 March 1998)

6.    International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth (MIJARC)

  European Committee for Young Farmers and 4H CLUBS

SYMPOSIUM on rural youth in Central and Eastern Europe (24-29 March 1998)

7.    Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC)

"The New Means of Communication and Information and its Impact on Youth Work and Democracy"

(29 March – 5 April 1998)

8.    Youth Express Network (REJ)

"Training for trainers working on social exclusion "

(10-17 May 1998)

9.    Fédération des Centres Sociaux

double study session

"North-South solidarity " (

14- 21 June 1998)

10.    European Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA)

"Exclusion or Integration? " (

21-28 June 1998)

11.    Forum of European Roma Young People (FERYP)

"Roma train Roma"

(5 – 12 July1998)

12.    European Association of Young Mediators (AEJM

)

"Training session on Mediation for young Europeans with a view to the peaceful settlement of disputes" (

5-12 July 1998)

13.  Europe at School

"Peace in my mind? – Simulation games as a method to train peaceful strategies of decision making" (14 – 22 July 1998)

14.    The European BAHA’I Youth Council

"Human Rights Education: Raising Individual Awareness" (6 – 13 September 1998)

15.    European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA)

"European Training course on "Different Approaches to Youth Information in Europe" (

27 September – 4 October 1998)

16.   Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP)

"Minorities in Europe: A minority in one place can be a majority in another place"(4 – 11 October 1998)

17.    European Educational Exchanges-YFU (EEE-YFU)

"Concepts of Peace: Towards non-violent cultures" (25 October – 1 November 1998)

18.    International Movement ATD Fourth World Youth

"Poverty and human rights: youth commitment to the elimination of poverty and promotion of human rights"

(25 October – 1 November 1998)

19.    International Falcon Movement-Socialist Educational International (IFM-SEI)

"On the brim of the next century, are the values that built our types of youth movements still up to date?" ( 8 – 15 November 1998)

20.    European Federation of Youth Service Organisations (EFYSO)

"Minorities/Majorities: Integration and Exclusion" (

15 – 22 November 1998)

21.   European Youth Forest Action (EYFA)

"LETS Exchange and Training Seminar"

(23 - 29 November 1998)

22.    Young European Federalists (YEF/JEF)

"Popular Culture: Contribution to European Integration" (

29 November – 6 December 1998)

23.    European Council of Conscripts Organisations (ECCO)

"Protection of human rights: how can young people contribute to a better democracy? (29 November – 6 December 1998)

 

II. STUDY SESSIONS IN BUDAPEST

1. European Committee for Young Farmers' and 4H Clubs (ECYF4HClubs)

"Project management" (

1-8 February 1998)

2. European Bureau of Conscientous Objection (EBCO

)

"Conscientious objection in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe"

(

8-15 February 1998)

3. International young catholic Student - international Movement of Catholics Students

(IYCS- IMCS/JECI-MIEC)

"The rôle of university in a learning society" (15-22 February 1998)

4. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)

"Building European Citizenship" (

1-8 March 1998)

5. European Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)

"Violence against women" (

8-15 March 1998)

6. Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe

(EYCE/COJE)

"Training ecumenical trainers in Europe" (

15-22 March 1998)

7. European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL)

"Evaluating global education projects" (

22-29 March 1998)

8. Young Christian Workers (YCW/JOC)

double study session

"Future of associative life in Europe" (

29 March-5 April 1998)

9. Youth Action for Peace (YAP/JAP)

"Working for peace and tolerance with multicultural groups

(5-12 April 1998)

10. International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY)

"Media and democracy in the coming century

" (3-10 May 1998)

11. European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC/CES

)

"Young people's participation in the trade union movement"

(17-24 May 1998)

12. International Young Naturefriends (IYNF) in co-operation with International Lesbian Gay & Lesbian Organisation (IGLYO) and Mobility International (MI)

"Unity through Diversity" A double study session (60 part.) on inclusion, tolerance and solidarity ( 23-30 August 1998)

13. Experiment in Europe (EIE)

"Training Course for Organisers of Youth Exchanges and other Youth related activities" (30 August - 6 September 1998)

14. World Association of Young Esperantists (TEJO)

"Language rights - language policy" (11-18 October 1998)

15. Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG/FJEE)

"East-West relations nine years after the fall of the wall" (

12 - 18 October 1998)

16. Young Women from Minorities

(WFM)

"Education and self-awareness to overcome oppression and discrimination" (15-22 November 1998)

17. The European Confederation of Youth Club Organisations (ECYC)

"Citizenship 2000" - The Role of Young People in the new Millenium" (22-29 November 1998)

18. MIJARC -Europe

"North-South-East-West-European Relations" (

29 November - 6 December 1998)

 

III. TRAINING COURSES

The European Youth Centres are organising 9 training courses in 1998, in co-operation with the European Youth Forum on the subject of international youth work, and the concepts of intercultural learning, project planning and running, training and language learning:

TCI

- Dates: 21 June - 4 July 1998, Strasbourg

"Introduction to Organising International Youth Activities"

TCII

- Dates: 26 August - 6 September 1998, Strasbourg

"Working in International Youth Structures"

TCIII

- Dates: 18 - 31 October 1998, Budapest

"Training for Trainers"

Long term Training course "Participation and Citizenship" for minority youth leaders

First phase (

19 April – 3 May 1998, Budapest)

Second phase

: elaboration of projects by the participants

Third phase (

19 – 29 November, Strasbourg 1998)

Long term Training course 1997-1998

Evaluation seminar(

4 - 15 May 1998, Budapest)

Training course on Intercultural learning

(28 May – 7 June 1998, Strasbourg)

Training course for Roma youth leaders

Evaluation seminar (

7-19 December 1998, Strasbourg)

Long term Training course 1998-1999

Introduction seminar

(4-18 October 1998, Strasbourg)

Training course for the Language teachers

(10 – 15 November 1998, Strasbourg)

 

IV. ACTVITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF DEMOCRATIC STABILITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Seminar on the future of non-governmental youth secteur in Bosnia and Herzegovina (13-8 February 1998, San Marino)

Training course for youth NGO leaders and civil servants in charge of youth issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina

(22-29 September 1998, Tuzla)

Mixed training course for civil servants dealing with youth matters and leaders of non-governmental youth organisations in the new member states

(4-11 October 1998, EYC Budapest)

Follow-up seminar to the long-term training course (1996) for youth leaders and civil servants in charge of youth issues in the Russian Federation

(23-30 August 1998 Russia)

Study visit on childrens’ organisations in the Russian Federation (in cooperation with the Directorate of Social and Economic Affairs

) (13-20 September 1998, Tyoumen

Training course for leaders of non-governmental youth organisations and civil servants dealing with youth matters in Romania, (

19-26 October 1998)

Training course for leaders of non-governmental youth organisations and civil servants dealing with youth matters in Bulgaria, (

15-22 November 1998)

Long-term training course on the situation of children and children’s organisations in Bulgaria (in cooperation with the Directorate of Social and Economic Affairs), (

31 March – 5 April 1998 , Veliko Turnovo)

 

V. EVALUATION MEETINGS

Evaluation meeting of the pilot course "Participation and Citizenship" 1997 (21 – 25 January 1998, Budapest)

 

VI. LANGUAGE COURSES

These courses are intended for youth leaders between 18 and 30 years of age. They last for three to four weeks. One of the English language courses is for young workers.

Dates of the courses

1. Intensive course in English for youth leaders

Thames Valley University, London (15 June - 10 July 1998) - 30 participants

2. Intensive course in Spanish for youth leaders

CEULAJ, Centro Eurolatinoamericano de Juventud, in Mollina

(Malaga), Spain ( 28 June - 25 July 1998) - 30 participants

3. Intensive course in English for young workers

St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny City, Ireland (29 June – 27 July 1998) - 30 participants

4. Intensive course in French for youth leaders

Belgium (2 - 28 July 1998) - 25 participants

5. Intensive course in German for youth leaders

Kassel, Europa Kolleg, Germany (2 - 29 August 1998) - 30 participants

6. Intensive course in English for youth leaders

Edwards Language School, London (16 August - 12 September 1998) - 30 participants

7. Intensive course in Portuguese for youth leaders

Setúbal, Portugal (29 August - 27 September 1998) - 25 participants.

8. Intensive course in French for youth leaders

European Youth Centre, Strasbourg, France (23 August - 19 September 1998)

30 participants

9. Intensive course in Italian for youth leaders

Turin, Italy (6-26 September 1998) - 20 participants

 

VII. CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS

Consultative meeting on "Intercultural learning" (

11 – 15 March 1998, Strasbourg)

Consultative meeting on EYCs programme (

4 – 8 November 1998, Strasbourg)

 

VIII. YOUTH RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION

Meeting of the National Research Correspondents (

26 – 28 May 1998, Strasbourg)

 

IX. ACTIVITIES FINANCED BY SOURCES OTHER THAN THE CENTRE'S BUDGET

STRASBOURG

1. Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen (

28 January – 1 February 1998)

2. Europe at School (

7 – 10 February 1998)

3. Fédération des jeunes écologistes européens (8 – 11 March 1998)

4. Université de Bern – "Politique intérieure = Politique extérieure"

(8 – 11 March 1998)

5. Banlieues d’Europe (

12 – 13 March 1998)

6. European Association of Youth Cards (

19 – 21 March 1998)

7. University de Jagellonian (Polish students) (19 – 22 March 1998)

8. Institut für Europaïsche Partnerschaften und Internationale zusammenarbeit e.V.

(16-18 July 1998)

9. Youth Forum – Meeting of the Commission on the Council of Europe

(16-18 October 1998)

10. Les Verts de Padova (

21-23 October 1998)

11. Centre de Recherche Tsiganes – Rencontre de juristes européens

(5 – 8 November 1998)

12. Conférence ONG au Conseil de l’Europe

(10 – 11 December 1998)

13. Meeting of the Youth Forum

(11 – 14 December 1998)

 

BUDAPEST

1. International Institute for Democracy

Democratic Leadership Programme - Seminar for young political leaders from Eastern Slavonia (4-9 January 1998)

2. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(10 January 1998)

3. Institutul Intercultural Timisoara, Romania

Pilot project - Intercultural networks Dates:

13-16 January 1998

4. Minority Rights Group Budapest

Mentor Trainer Training

(19-23 January 1998)

5. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of EBCO Study Session

(20-22 January 1998)

6. International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

Local Government and Community Mobilisation for Economic Development

(22-23 January 1998)

7. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

1st Preparatory Meeting of the Long Term Training Course Participation and Citizenship "

(21-25 January 1998)

8. Institute for Applied Research on Communication (IKAB) on behalf on DG 22 of the European Commission

Training for Trainers, phase III.

(25 January - 1 February 1998)

9. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Tutor’s meeting

(25 January-1 February 1998)

10. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of YWCA Study Session

(25-27 January 1998)

11. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(31 January 1998)

12. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - European Committee for Young Farmers' and 4H Clubs (ECYF 4H Clubs)

Project management

(1-8 February 1998)

13. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - European Bureau of Conscientious Objection

(EBCO)

Conscientious objection in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

( 8-15 February 1998)

14. Visit of the Romanian Youth Ministry

( 9-10 January 1998)

15. Future of Europe Association

Europe and the young

(10 February 1998)

16. European Bureau of Conscientious Objection (EBCO)

Board Meeting

(12-15 February 1998)

17. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - International Young Catholic Student - International Movement of Catholics Students(IYCS-IMCS/JECI-MIEC)

The role of university in a learning society

(15-22 February 1998)

18. Economic Development Institute/ World Bank

FDI (The Fiscal Decentralisation Initiative) Third Annual Steering Committee Meeting

(19-20 February 1998)

19. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(21 February 1998)

20. Ministry for Agriculture, Hungary (AGRYA)

Training course for non-profit organisations involved in the process of European Integration ( 21-22 February 1998)

21. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

2nd Preparatory Meeting of the Long Term Training Course Participation and Citizenship

(22-27 February 1998)

22. Ministry of Culture and Education

International Conference on Students Rights

(26-28 February 1998)

23. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)

Building European Citizenship

(1-8 March 1998)

24. Wallonie-Quebec Exchange Office

Culture and Media. (Programme for young journalist offices from Budapest, Brussels, Montreal) (2-9 March 1998)

25. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - European Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)

Violence against women (8-15 March 1998)

26. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(14 March 1998)

27. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe (EYCE)

Training ecumenical trainers in Europe

(15-22 March 1998)

28.    Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen

European Dimension of Social Work Education

(18-22 March 1998)

29. AFS Hungary Intercultural Programmes Foundation

Development of the Central-Eastern European Partner Organisations

(19-23 March 1998)

30. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL)

Evaluating global education projects

(22-29 March 1998)

31. Council of Europe - Sports Division

Committee for the Development of Sports Action Plan for Disabled Sport in Bosnia and Herzegovina (25-26 March 1998)

32. EFIL – Steering Group (27-29 March 1998)

33. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Young Christian Workers (YCW/JOC) double study session

Future of associative life in Europe

(29 March-5 April 1998)

34. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(4 April 1998)

35. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Youth Action for Peace (YAP/JAP)

Working for peace and tolerance with multicultural groups

(5-12 April 1998)

36. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of IUSY Study Session

(10-13 April 1998)

37. Council of Europe - Directorate of Political Affairs

Human Rights Conference – The role of NGOs in the transition to a democratic society – Ways of co-operation with the Council of Europe (15-19 April 1998)

38. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Long Term Training Course Participation and Citizenship

First phase A pilot training course on empowerment of minority youth in Europe

(19 April – 3 May 1998)

39. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(25 April 1998)

40. European Centre for Modern Languages

Cultural Awareness Network Meeting

(24-27 April 1998)

41. II. Rákóczi Ferenc Secondary Economics School

Socrates Comenius 1: Managing Across Countries

(26-28 April 1998)

42. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY)

Media and democracy in the coming century

(3-10 May 1998)

43. Long Term Training Course 1997-1998

Evaluation phase European training for youth leaders and youth workers carrying out projects with young people in a multicultural context (4-15 May 1998)

44. International Union of Socialist Youth

Feminist working group meeting

(9-10 May 1998)

45. Hungarian Association of Judges – Council of Europe

Guarantees of the independence of judges

(12-14 May 1998)

46. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

TC I. Preparatory Meeting"

(15-18 May 1998)

47. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(16 May 1998)

48. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC/CES)

Young people's participation in the trade union movement

(17-24 May 1998)

49. Council of Europe – Directorate of Environment and Local Authorities

Training seminar on European Charter of Local Self-Government

(30 May – 4 June 1998)

50. Schüler Helfen Seben - Sarajevo

Training in Conflict-Resolution

(1-11 June 1998)

51. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Regular Meeting of the Hungarian Children Advisory Board

(6 June 1998)

52. Council of Europe – Youth Directorate

Governing board of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation

( 9-14 June 1998)

53. Council of Europe - The World Bank

Code of conducts in the fight against corruption

(13-17 June 1998)

54. International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

Municipal Finance and Budgeting Workshop

(18-19 June 1998)

55. The World Bank – Rural Development and Environment Sector Unit (ECSRE)

First World Bank EU Accession Workshop in the Rural Sector: Regional and International Trade Policy lessons for Accession (20-24 June 1998)

56. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the Multilateral TC"

( 22-25 June 1998)

57. Council of Europe –Directorate of Education and Sport

Council of Europe School Bared Exchanges

( 25-28 June 1998)

58. European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) (25-28 June 1998)

59. Institut National de la Jeunesse et de l’Éducation Populaire (INJEP) – Mobilitás Youth Service

Leonardo Project

(1-5 July 1998)

60. Council of Europe – Directorate of Education, Culture and Sports

Teacher Training Seminar in Human Rights Education and Education for Democratic Citizenship in Bosnia Herzegovina ( 2-7 July 1998)

61. Minority Rights Group International

Seminar for Rights and Advocacy Training

(6-12 July 1998)

62. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the World Association of Young Esperantists (TEJO) Study Session

( 9-11 July 1998)

63. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

3rd Preparatory Meeting of the Long Term Training Course Participation and Citizenship

(28 July – 1 August 1998)

64. Visit of the National Youth Council of Moldova

( 29 July – ’ August 1998)

65. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG/FJEE) Study Session (13-17 August 1998)

66. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - International Young Nature friends (IYNF) in co-operation with International Lesbian Gay & Lesbian Organisation (IGLYO) and Mobility International (MI)

Unity through Diversity - A double study session on inclusion, tolerance and solidarity

( 23-30 August 1998)

67. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Experiment in Europe (EIE)

Training Course for Organisers of Youth Exchanges and other Youth related activities

( 30 August - 6 September 1998)

68. Council of Europe Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the TC 3

( 1-4 September 1998)

69. Young Christian Workers

Animators Training

( 5-13 September 1998)

Council of Europe – Directorate of Environment and Local Authorities

Training course on Local Finances

(12-19 September 1998)

71. Council of Europe

Steering Group on the Youth Events for the 50th Anniversary of the Council of Europe –1st meeting ( 15-16 September 1998)

72. Council of Europe – Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the MIJARC (International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth) Study Session (18-20 September 1998)

73. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Meeting of the Regional National Committee

(19-20 September 1998)

74. World Organisation of the Scout Movement

Seminar on Emotional Development

(19-25 September 1998)

75. Foundation for Drug Prevention

Workshop for social workers

( 24-26 September 1998)

76. Council of Europe - Directorate of Political Affairs, External Relations Division

The legal status of NGOs and their role in a pluralistic democracy

( 30 September – 4 October 1998)

77. Ministry for National Heritage Hungary

(3-7 October 1998)

78. Council of Europe Youth Directorate / Demosthenes Fund

Multilateral Training Course for Civil Servants and Youth NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe ( 4-11 October 1998)

79. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Meeting of the Regional National Committee

(9 October 1998)

80. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - World Association of Young Esperantists (TEJO)

Language rights - language policy

( 11-18 October 1998)

81. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG/FJEE)

East-West relations nine years after the fall of the wall

(12-18 October 1998)

82. Council of Europe – Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the WFM Study Session

(15-18 October 1998)

83. Mobilitás Youth Service

Training for Multiplicators

(16-17 October 1998)

84. Open Society Institute, Local Government and Public Service Initiative

Best Innovative Practices in Local Government

(18-20 October 1998)

85. Council of Europe - Youth Directorate

Training Course III – Training for Trainers

(18-31 October 1998)

86. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Recruitment Training

( 26- 30 October 1998)

87. Hungarian National Committee for Unicef

Training for the Association for Animators for Children

(23-26 October 1998)

88. Council of Europe - Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the (OBESSU) Study Session ( 29 October - 1 November 1998) Council of Europe – Directorate of Political Affairs

Balkan Conference Planning Committee

( 3-5 November 1998)

89. Hannah Arendt Association – Soros Foundation Hungary

Facing History

(6-8 November 1998)

90. Soros Foundation Hungary

Prize giving ceremony of the competition "social Policy Report for secondary school students

( 9 November 1998)

92. Council of Europe – 50th May, Exhibition Preparatory Meeting

(9-11 November 1998)

93. Council of Europe - Youth Directorate

Preparatory Meeting of the European Committee for Young Farmers’ and 4H Clubs

(11-13 November 1998)

94. Council of Europe – Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport, Higher Education Section

Conference on Lifelong Learning

(11-15 November 1998)

95. European Committee for Young Farmers’ and 4H Clubs

Board Meeting

(13-15 November 1998)

96. Coventry Council of Voluntary Youth Services

Evaluation of European Human Bridges

(13-16 November 1998)

97. Council of Europe Youth Directorate - Young Women from Minorities (WFM)

Education and self-awareness to overcome oppression and discrimination

(15-22 November 1998)

98. Council of Europe – Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe (EYCE)

Preparatory Meeting of the EYCE (TETE II) Study Session

(19-23 November 1998)

99. Nemzeti Gyermek és Ifjúsági Közalapítvány (NGYIKA)

Youth and Europe

( 21 November 1998)

100. Council of Europe

Preparatory Meeting of Training Course 1 – Introduction to Organising International Youth Activities ( 21-22 November 1998)

101. The European Confederation of Youth Club Organisations (ECYC)

Citizenship 2000 - The Role of Young People in the new Millennium

(22-29 November 1998)

102. International Committee of the Red Cross

Region Delegation for Central and South-East Europe

Communications workshop

(25-29 November 1998)

103. Council of Europe – International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and RuralYouth (MIJARC)

North-South-East-West-European Relations

( 29 November - 6 December 1998)

104. Council of Europe – 50th May in Budapest, 2nd Preparatory Meeting

(4-5 December 1998)

105. Foundation for Human Rights and Peace Education, Hungary

International Conference on International Education in the context of Human Rights

(2-5 December 1998)

106. Hungarian Society of Criminology – Hungarian Psychiatric Association – Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

Drug prevention and the penal code – the effect of criminal laws on drug prevention and rehabilitation

(7 December 1998)

107. Council of Europe- Youth Directorate/Directorate of Education, Culture and Sports

Youth Cultures, Lifestyles and Citizenship

( 8-13 December 1998)

108. Children for Children Foundation – Hungarian Committee for UNESCO

(12-13 December 1998)

109. Council of Europe - Youth Directorate

Preparatory meeting of the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation

(12-15 December 1998)

110. Hungarian National Committee for UNICEF

Training for the Association for Animators for Children

(12 December 1998)

111. Council of Europe – International Institute for Democracy

Seminar for young political leaders from Northern and Southern Cyprus

(13-20 December 1998)

112. Council of Europe – Directorate of Education, Culture and Sports

Teacher Training

(13-17 December 1998)

113. Austrian Embassy – Minority Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

European Union – Minority Politics

(15 December 1998)

114. Open Society Institute

(17-20 December)

 

X. STATUTORY MEETINGS

Two 3-day meetings of the Advisory Committee of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation (18-20 March and 19-21 October)

Two 4-day meetings of the Governing Board of the European Youth Centres and the European Youth Foundation (9-12 June and 15-18 December)

1 joint meeting of the Advisory Committee and the CDEJ (19 March)

1 meeting of the three Chairpersons of the Governing Board, the Advisory Committee and the CDEJ (16 March)

1 meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the European Youth Foundation (2  December)

 

XI PUBLICATIONS

Keys to Participation: a practioner’s guide.

Eric Boukobza. Council of Europe, 1998.

ISBN: 9287135746. 122p

Clés pour la participation : guide à l’usage des practiciens.

Eric Boukobza.

Conseil de l’Europe, 1998. ISBN: 9287135746. 112p.

Education Parck : Ideen, Quellen, Methoden und Aktivatäten für die informelle Interkulturelle pädagogische Arbeit mit Jugendlichen und Erwachsensen.

Europäisches Jugendzentrum. Erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe, Mai 1998. 221p.

Also available in Russian.

Participation and citizenship: training for minority youth projects in Europe.

Yael Ohana (ed.). Council of Europe, 1998. ISBN : 92-871 3650 5. 115p.

Learning a language differently: 30 years of EYC experience.

Heather Miletto and Odile Raffner (eds). Council of Europe, 1998 (reprint). 158p.

Apprendre une langue différemment…: 30 années d’expérience du CEJ.

Heather Miletto et Odile Raffner (eds.). Conseil de l’Europe, 1998 (réimpression). 159p

 

 

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