Welcome to YOUTH SPACE - the dissemination and exploitation web-site for the European Commission funded Youth in Action Programme in the UK!
The aim of this site is to make sure that results, end products and experiences of Youth in Action projects and participants are shared and used by young people and organisations in the UK and beyond.
YOUTHSPACE promotes good practice; provide a real insight into real projects and real people. It is a platform for young people and organisations alike to share training tools, websites, personal experiences, diaries, photographs, magazines, music, films and much more ….
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Call for YOUTHSPACE submissions!
We are urgently looking for ‘products’ and ‘results’ to showcase and share on this website so if you have received funding for a Youth in Action project from the British Council (UK National Agency) and you want to share your project and experience with others.
Please remember - this website depends on your contributions and ideas, so feel free to send us any material generated by your project that you think is worth showing.
24/09/2007
Launch of the youth in action programme
On Monday 24 September, at the British Council’s office in Spring Gardens , we marked the official launch of the NEW European Commission Youth in Action Programme. Youth in Action is a wide ranging funding scheme that is available not only to organisations working with young people in the non-formal education sector but also to any young person between the age of 13 and 30 who is resident in Europe. The Programme will run until 2013 and replaces the previous European Youth Programme. Its main purpose is to engage people with less opportunities through international exchanges, voluntary work abroad and in the UK plus the provision of funds to young people so they can design and carry out their own ideas -from a radio programme on urban culture to a new website or even a fashion magazine.
More than 200 stakeholders and external contacts –with at least a third of them completely new to the Programme- came to the launch for a series of one- to-one consultations and presentations about the main features of the NEW Youth in Action Programme. The launch was completed with a small evening reception. We were delighted with the presence of representatives of various cultural institutions such as National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain , Tate Liverpool, Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Court Theatre . We also had members of the Merseyside and the Metropolitan Police, the Probation Services, the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the International Office of the Local Government Agency plus numerous NGOs -like Minorities of Europe- and youth workers.
