This project was created due to the lack of evidence-based research in the field of youth information, which blocks the development of the sector. With this in mind, research will be carried out to identify youth information needs, trends, and most relevant topics. This survey will be compared and contrasted with an ERYICA survey which was carried out in 2013, and, perhaps most innovatively, will use future foresight methodology to identify a strategic direction for youth information, something that has never been done before. 

In 2017 a survey was conducted 
to collect data about youth information needs and services. The aim of the study was to understand the future information needs among the young generation, the current service quality and satisfaction of the users, and identify improvement areas so information services could be designed according to the future demand. Data collection was administered using a questionnaire survey in 20 countries across Europe. Having the survey in so many languages meant that young people could fill it in in many countries, including during a mobility stay abroad, or after returning to their country of residence.
The survey was addressed to both youth information service users as well as non-users to get as broad a picture as possible. Therefore, two different set of questionnaires were used to collect answers from the two different set of population. 
Additionally, questions about information literacy were added to the questionnaires to get some insights into the information handling skills of young people today.

After participating in the Council of Europe High Level Task Force on Implementation of the Youth Work Recommendation that was adopted by the Committee of Ministers in May last year, the European Youth Forum is starting to prepare its member organisations for monitoring and participation of implementation of the recommendation.

A new policy paper on the ERASMUS+ successor programme was adopted in November 2017. It outlines political demands of the European Youth Forum and its member organisations in view of the negotiations and adoptions of the Erasmus+ successor programme within the post-2020 EU Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).

The European Youth Forum’s Council of Members meeting will take place in late April in Brussels, and two new policy papers will be up for discussion and vote – one on Sustainable Development and one on the Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU.

Our input will feed into the European Commission’s proposal for a Council recommendation on on
promoting mutual recognition of higher and secondary education qualifications and study periods abroad , which will be released on 2nd May with the first series of policy proposals aiming at contributing to an European Education Area.

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How can mobility be good both for the socio-economic and individual development of young people?

What are the factors that foster/hinder such beneficial mobility?

This first policy brief is based on selected results from the secondary macro-data analysis and on first insights from the case study analysis. In regard of the macro data analysis, two major problems are tackled; firstly, the overall insufficient data availability; and secondly, the unequal benefits

of mobility for member states due to regional and country specific differences. The qualitative

analysis sheds light on the great variety in the young people’s scopes and needs in the context of

very different mobility fields. The question of supportive and hindering factors towards an individually satisfying mobility experience are focused on in this policy brief.

The analyses hint to the fact that more differentiated responses of mobility programmes are

needed, in regard of the respective economic situations of member states (with respect to the

quantitative findings of the secondary data analysis) and in regard of different individual needs

and scopes of young people (with respect to the qualitative findings). 

of accessing international youth work and the obstacles young people face when it comes to  participation. There will be a specific focus on young people who are not participating.
http://zugangsstudie.de/

In June 2018 a huge (German-speaking) conference is scheduled for further strategy planning and ensuring the sustainability of the results. It will be held close to Cologne. Interested experts of the field can contact zugangsstudie@transfer-ev.de for regular updates.

THE QUALITY BONUS Conference will take place on 26-28 March 2018 in Mainz/Germany and might be for you if
- you are involved in youth worker education and training,
- you are interested in contributing to the further development of quality youth work,
- you are interested in education and training strategies and in discussing them in a European – international environment,
- you might have a good example of practice to share connected to education and training of youth workers, and
- ... moreover, you are ready for a new challenge!

The Conference will be an opportunity to enable stakeholders of education and training to further contribute to the development of quality youth work. It will focus on systems and opportunities for youth workers by exploring topics related to the European Training Strategy (ETS), which provides resources for better strategical approaches.

This Embracing Diversity course gives youth workers concrete methods for managing diversity in groups and projects. It offers you 4 days to explore various kinds of diversity (e.g. ethnic, ability, socio-economic, religious, LGBT, background, linguistic…) and ways to help young people appreciate diversity and cooperate despite their differences. There will be lots of space for sharing and applying concepts to your youth work practice.

If you (or a colleague) are working with diverse young people (with fewer opportunities) and want to sharpen your ‘diversity management skills’, then please apply!

See www.salto-youth.net/SPInclusion/

· Reach out to young people from different categories and age ranges, both on-line and off-line;

· Create youth engagement on social media and put forward messages that support youth participation and well-being;

·Raise awareness and information about the variety of tools and paths to gather data about young people’s profile and needs: from academic research, to institutions which provide publications on knowledge of youth, to private companies who focus their services on producing knowledge of young people;

· Design youth-catered services and use innovative tools to gather relevant data.

when: 9 July 2018 -

13 July 2018

language: English

duration: 1 week

fee: EUR 150

registration deadline: 1 May 2018 

In the framework of ERYICA’s DOYIT (Developing Online Youth Information Trainings) project, the first training of eTrainers took place in Croatia in January 2018, about the YoMIM (Youth on the Move – InfoMobility) course. 15 new eTrainers were trained to disseminate the course on the Moodle platform, which provides specific skills to youth information workers to cater for the needs of young people in a mobility situation.

The first day will be dedicated to a pre-conference, which targets policymakers and practitioners in the field of youth, the rest of the conference is more targeted towards academics in this field. The programme will include a presentation of the final results of the MOVE project. This will be followed by a panel discussion with policy-makers and experts, and the afternoon will offer participants the possibility to discuss in more detail with the researchers of the project, depending on their area of interest within youth mobility: employment, voluntary work, entrepreneurship, higher education, pupil’s exchange, and vocational training. 

The EPLM has a mission to engage in the improvement, knowledge, visibility and recognition of learning mobility in the youth field.

[Find out more about EPLM here]

the EU? No member had ever left before. A reflection paper on the effect of Brexit and British/European young people, in English language in the German youth work publication.