European Conferences for Youth Information

What is “European Conferences for Youth Information”?

The objective of the “European Conferences for Youth Information”, a LABEL GUIDEurope funded programme, is to share practice amongst Young People’s Information Service Providers to facilitate the free circulation of information within an open Europe and improve access to European youth programmes.

The objective is to be achieved through the sharing of working practices, projects and ideas by the eight countries participating in the programme - France, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Wales – through annual conferences, training programmes, job shadowing opportunities, youth exchanges and the development of an interactive website.

Canllaw Online is the partner for Wales and has worked with representatives from the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors to realise this project.

Benefits to Wales:

Through the sharing of working practices and the pooling of information by the eight participating European countries, young people in Wales will benefit from the development of a further enhanced information service - increasing awareness of the emergence of a European citizenship, and providing opportunities to participate in events specifically designed to increase European awareness and mobility, such as youth exchanges and themed events.

The experiences and opinions of the young people involved will be fed back into the Information for Young People services, both in Wales and in the participating European countries.