Developments concerning youth policies in the States parties
to the European Cultural Convention

Contributions on recent developments in youth policies of the member States are sent to the Secretariat of the Directorate of Youth and Sport by the members of the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and presented for information at the annual meetings of this committee.

Armenia	Austria	Azerbaidjan	Belgium	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia	Cyprus
Czech Republic	Finland	Germany	Georgia	Latvia	Luxembourg	The former yugoslav republic of Macedonia
Malta	Moldova	Poland	Portugal	Russia	Serbia	Slovakia
Sweden	Turkey	United Kingdom

European Knowledge Centre for Youth Poliy - EKCYP

The European Knowledge Centre was developed within the framework of the Youth Research Partnership between the Council of Europe and European Commission. It is a tool for facilitating the Council of Europe’s monitoring of youth policy and the European Commission follow-up to the White Paper on Youth.

It is supported by a European wide network of European Knowledge Centre correspondents who were nominated by the member states’ ministries. Sixteen countries have participated so far: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In 2006 all 46 European countries will be involved. The correspondents answer questionnaires directly into the Core Content of the EKC system on the topics of Youth Policy, Participation, Information, Voluntary Activities and a Better Understanding of Youth.

There are many other features to the European Knowledge Centre.

• It will be used to collect and disseminate examples of good practice on participation to support the Council of Europe’s European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life
• It has been developed to share documents from research, policy and practice through a powerful database

The news on youth related topics can be adapted according to the user’s profile of interests
To find out more visit the site www.youth-knowledge.net