Our mission is:"to increase international understanding through the promotion of travel and exchange opportunities among students, young people and the academic community."

Action 1 – Youth Exchange

Youth Exchanges offer the possibility to young people aged between 15 and 25 to meet each other through non-formal education. Exchanges bring together young people from different countries coming from diverse educational, cultural, and social backgrounds to explore similarities and differences between their countries.

'Youth Exchanges

If aged between 15 and 30 ...

Wish to ...

meet with young people from other countries

see different places

learn about different cultures

introduce your country and culture? ...

Action 2 – International Voluntary Service

Under this action, young people aged between 18 and 35 are able to spend from 3 Weeks to 9 Months abroad as volunteers to give a helping hand in local projects from a wide range of fields such as social, ecological and environmental, arts and culture, new technologies, leisure and sports and so forth.

If you are aged between 18-35  years old and if you want ...

• to gain new skills

• to learn about a new country

• to learn a different culture by living within this country

• to bring an added value to the host organisation and the local community

• to introduce your culture to local community

• to learn a new language,

the International Voluntary Service (IVS) activity in the field of the environment, arts and culture, activities with children, young people or the elderly, heritage, youth sports and leisure, civil protection or similar subjects are just for you ...

Action 3– Seminars/Trainings

Action 3 provides support to develop new YOUTH projects and to enhance capacity building and innovation in the field of international youth work. The actions’ measures are actually a package of possibilities to develop new quality YOUTH projects intended to strengthen the other programme Actions.

Support Measures are instruments aimed at helping all those involved in youth activities or interested in youth matters to prepare and develop projects and initiatives within the context of the YOUTH programme.

Support Measures are open to:

• youth workers
• trainers
• support persons
• mentors
• project managers
• youth leaders
• groups of young people
• other actors involved or interested in non-formal education.

The nine types of activity eligible for support are as follows:

1. Practical training experience (job shadowing)

This activity allows youth workers to acquire the skills for organising a transnational project by working in a partner organisation for a limited period of time.

2. Feasibility visits

These allow project managers to discuss a project idea before submitting an application under Actions 1 or 2.

3. Contact-making seminars

These bring together potential partners for YOUTH projects.

4. Study visits

These activity provides an opportunity to learn about youth work provisions in other countries.

5. Seminars

These are a tool for the exchange of experience and good practice, consultations or policy development etc. with regard to the YOUTH programme and youth policy.

6. Training courses

These help those involved in youth work and non-formal education to acquire advanced skills and knowledge for their activities.

7. Youth information

This activity supports the production of and innovative ways of communicating information relating to the objectives and priorities of the YOUTH programme.

8. Transnational partnerships and networks

This activity supports the creation of new networks under the YOUTH programme.

9. Support for quality and innovation

This activity aims at involving young people with less opportunities in the YOUTH programme at national, regional and local levels.