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KDYS Killarney Youth Centre to receive the Council of Europe’s Quality Label for Youth Centres

On 6 June 2017 the Council of Europe awarded its Quality Label to the KDYS Killarney Youth Centre in Ireland.

This is the tenth youth centre to receive this recognition of its achievements in promoting Council of Europe standards and values in youth policy and youth work.

The award ceremony took place at the premises of KDYS Killarney Youth Centre (Fair Hill, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland), in the presence of Fergal Lynch, Secretary General at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs of the Republic of Ireland and Antje Rothemund, Head of Youth Department of the Council of Europe.

The Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres provides an opportunity for youth centres in member states to associate themselves with the quality concept and standards applied at the Council of Europe’s Youth Centres in Strasbourg and Budapest. Killarney Euróg Youth Centre

Residential and educational youth centres that apply for the Quality Label are assessed on their work in the specific areas of value education, multiplication of social impact, influence on youth policy, knowledge development, educational innovation and international co-operation.

To qualify for the Label, youth centres should serve the youth sector and young people; promote international co-operation within the youth sector; have a clear mandate from public authorities; have in-house educational staff working to support the activities, and to have accommodation facilities within one campus with the working facilities.

The Council of Europe awards this Label to recognize youth centres that have a diversified set of activities and programmes for a very diverse youth population. This is how the KDYS Killarney Youth Centre stands out. It demonstrates:

  •        A strong sense of community and outreach to more than just young people
  •        The ability to work with vulnerable people alongside mainstream youth
  •        The development and use of innovative methods and approaches which have in turn become models of good practice.

More information on KDYS Killarney Youth Centre:  http://kdys.ie/

More information on the Quality Label: https://www.coe.int/en/web/youth/quality-label-for-youth-centres

More information on the Council of Europe’s youth sector: www.coe.int/youth

The Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organisation. Known as the guardian of   human rights, democracy and rule of law it is promoting the values of democratic citizenship and participation in its 47 member states, 28 of which are members of the European Union. All Council of Europe member states have signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty designed to protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

Secretariat of the Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres
Council of Europe, European Youth Centre Budapest
H-1024 Budapest, Zivatar u. 1-3.
Tel.: +36 1 438 1030

[email protected]

Strasbourg, France 1 June 2017
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