YOUTH COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMME

Youth Community Action Programme

Launched some 10 years ago, Community Action for Youth has enabled around 500,000 young people to take part in exchange arrangements, provided support for more than 2,300 young European volunteers, and funded 1,500 youth schemes. It is designed primarily to involve young people more in the development of the European ideal, to give them informal educational opportunities, and to encourage them to take an active part in society.

The Youth Community Action Programme embraces three main objectives :

• A greater sense of solidarity

• Contribution by young people to the building of Europe

• Encouraging a spirit of initiative and enterprise

The Programme is based on five key Actions :

• Youth for Europe - cooperation projects - intra community exchanges and exchanges with third countries

• European Voluntary Service individual mobility under the Scheme

• Youth initiatives to give young people a better opportunity to become self reliant

• Joint actions - cooperation with Socrates and Leonardo

• Support measures - education and training, youth information

The Department of Youth and Sport and the Parliamentary Secretariat in the Ministry of Education are organising an information Seminar concerning the new Youth Programme by the European Union and the benefits and opportunies offered. The Seminar is being held at the Carlson Suite, SAS Radisson Bay Point Resort, St. Julians on Saturday 26^th February 2000 between 09.00 and 13.00.

Youth organisations and Youth Committees within Local Councils are cordially urged to participate.

For further information please phone : 234142, 25982735.