1/ Details of the candidate centre
Name of the Centre:
Full Address:
City:
Country:
Website:
Weblink to location map:
2/ Details of the responsible contact person (Director, Manager, etc)
Name:
Email:
Daytime telephone:
3/ Why do you want to associate your youth centre to the Council of Europe by acquiring the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres?
4/ Eligibility criteria:
Eligibility criterion 1
“The centre has, as its primary mission, the aim to serve the youth sector and young people.”
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1.1 The primary focus of the centre's programme is young people and those working with and for young people. |
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1.2 The majority of the educational activities in the centre correspond to the profile of non-formal education. |
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1.3 The centre is involved in training multipliers engaged in non-formal education with young people. |
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1.4 The centre is involved in regional and national networks of the youth sector and cooperates with other actors of the youth sector. |
Eligibility criterion 2
“The centre has in-house educational staff competent in non-formal education.”
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2.1 The centre has at least two internal educational staff members responsible for ensuring conceptual coherence, quality assurance, and support for activities, including those run by external educational staff. |
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2.2 The centre's educational staff team is adequately large for the number and volume of activities run. |
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2.3 The centre can demonstrate the competence of its educational staff for value-based, non-formal educational activities with an international dimension. |
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2.4 The centre’s management supports its educational staff to take part in the annual Forum for educational staff of Youth Centres or trainings organised by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe. |
Eligibility criterion 3
“The centre has accommodation facilities within one campus with the working facilities.”
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3.1 Participating centres have the capacity to provide board and lodging on one campus. Living together is an integral part of the educational concept / process. |
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3.2 Participating Centres' facilities are such that the group does not have to move to another venue outside the campus for social activities, sleeping, and so on: •Accommodation is provided indoors with suitable basic hygiene facilities •Accommodation in tents and campsites is not eligible •Rented space does not qualify |
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3.3 The participating centre's accommodation capacity is adapted to the organisation of international study sessions or similar activities (i.e. to accommodating approximately 35 participants). |
Eligibility criterion 4
“The centre cooperates with public authorities.”
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4.1 The participating centre can provide evidence or official documents licensing their activities. |
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4.2 The participating centre has the support from public authorities to apply for this Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres. |
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4.3 The participating centre has established links and communication mechanisms with the public authorities responsible for youth policy. Evidence could be a contract, funding, support letter or another official document giving evidence of a structured relationship. |
Eligibility criterion 5
“The centre promotes international co-operation within the youth sector.”
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5.1 The centre hosts and promotes international and multi-lateral activities. |
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5.2 The centre can demonstrate that it is involved in wider European / international co-operation frameworks of the youth sector. |
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5.3 The centre makes efforts to multiply good practices from the international level (Council of Europe, European Union, United Nations, specific networks) and spread the knowledge and values through training and promotional activities at national, regional and local levels. |
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5.4 The centre contributes to the network of the quality labelled youth centres through participation in the annual European Platform for Youth Centres , the annual Forum for educational staff, knowledge sharing and international cooperation between participating centres. |
Eligibility criterion 6
“The centre promotes the Council of Europe’s values and approaches.”
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6,1 The centre's ethos, programme and working philosophy are grounded in the values of the Council of Europe: respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law |
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6,2 The centre promotes the priorities of the Council of Europe's youth sector by actively addressing human rights education, intercultural learning, youth participation, active democratic citizenship and social inclusion of young people in its activities and working practices. |
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6.3 The values of the Council of Europe are reflected in a human rights based code of ethics for the functioning of the centre. |
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6.4 The staff of the centre know about the relationship to the Council of Europe and can give relevant information about it to participants. |
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6.5 The centre promotes the activities of the Council of Europe (e.g. seminars, campaigns, etc.). |
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6.6 Council of Europe publications are displayed and available for dissemination to participants and visitors. |
5/a/ Please describe your relationship with public authorities (for example: recognition, contracts, …)
5/b/ Please describe your relationship with civil society
5/c/ Please describe how your centre reaches out to multipliers in the youth sector
5/d/ Please describe how your centre could contribute to the development of youth work on local, regional, national, or European level.
6/ Please indicate your agreement to the terms and conditions of participation by checking the boxes:
We undertake to provide all the information required by the assessment procedure as outlined in the brochure entitled ‘The Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres’ and to cooperate fully with the expert group appointed by the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ), should an exploratory visit to our centre be undertaken.
We have taken note of and agree to the financial conditions of acquiring the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres as laid out in the brochure entitled ‘The Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres’:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/youth/ql-publications
We consider that a monitoring visit of the Council of Europe group of experts could take place in our Centre as from:
(please indicate a period for a possible quality label expert team visit and the period that you will focus on your self-assessment (leading up to the visit))
Date: Signature:
Please submit this form, along with not more than 8 representative photos of your centre (e.g. dining area, bedrooms, working rooms, outdoor spaces, etc), in electronic format (scan of signed copy) to:
Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres
email: [email protected]