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Action 1 - Youth for Europe
Youth exchanges offer an opportunity for groups of young people (aged 15-25) from different countries to meet. They have a pedagogical value and a non-formal learning aim, in that the groups explore common themes and learn about each other's cultures.
Action 2 - European Voluntary Service (E. V. S)
Under this Action, young people aged between 18 and 25 are able to spend up to 12 months abroad as European volunteers helping in local projects in a wide range of fields: social, ecological and environmental, arts and culture, new technologies, leisure and sports, etc.
Action 3 - Youth Initiatives
Through this Action, young people aged between 15/18 and 25 can obtain support to carry out a project at local level. The intention is to give them a chance to develop as well as express their creativity and spirit of initiative. It also aims at providing former EVS volunteers with a concrete opportunity to build upon the expertise and skills acquired during their voluntary service.
Action 4 - Joint Actions
This Action brings together the SOCRATES (education), LEONARDO DA VINCI (vocational training) and YOUTH (non-formal education) programs. It will provide support for initiatives that build on the complementary nature of these three programs and others, such as Culture 2000.
Action 5 - Support Measures
These measures underpin and complement the other YOUTH program Actions, so as to consolidate and enhance their benefits, to continue and develop innovative actions at Community level, and to boost the quality of youth projects, for instance through exchanges of good practices or training of project organizers.
Call for large scale projects
In addition and complementary to the opportunities offered by Action 5, the European Commission launches annual calls, published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, for projects targeted at specific priorities in the fields of networking and partnership, training and information.
Cross-border co-operation
Cross-border co-operation is an initiative launched in 2002 with the objective to improve the communication between young people and youth workers in defined cross-border regions of present and future EU Member States. Special funds are allocated to these activities.
The projects must have a clear cross-border cooperation dimension and the activities must take place in a cross-border region. The implementation follows the general rules and spirit of the YOUTH program allowing some flexibility to take into account the specific nature of cross-border cooperation.
For more information please contact your National Agency
