European Youth Card Association

EYCA is now waiting for the contracts to finalise the details but already said that they are very excited about working together with Youth Agora next year. They will get back to us with in January to discuss and develop a working plan together.

PROJECT TITLE: TRANSFORMING YOUTH INFORMATION - TRAFO 2.0

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The "Transforming Youth Information - Trafo 2.0" project has as its main objectives to develop new approaches to youth information through interactive web 2.0 tools. The euro26.org site will be transformed into a platform that will provide young people with relevant European youth information that will be appealing to them both through form and content.

The project's target groups are people under 30 who are EURO<26 card holders as well as other young people, be it associated youth, youth workers, members of European organisations and institutions, researchers and journalists.

The main activities to achieve the goal of the project are divided into five phases. Initially, the platform for youth information services will be developed technically and content wise. In stage two of the project a group of the so called youth information agents (from EURO<26 member organisations and others) will be trained by experts who will then continuously supply the platform with articles, blogs, podcasts and other feeds. To further enhance the functioning and information content of the platform, EYCA will strengthen strategic partnerships with other organisations and institutions in the youth field through which it will increase the number of users and contributors. With the participation of EYCA's member organisations and all the media available to them, a pan-European campaign will promote the site through the means of an attractive competition that will engage young people in creating high-quality youth information. The web 2.0 youth information concept will be further endorsed as the platform will be presented at five major European events with different relevant audiences. All the involved participants at various levels will continuously evaluate the project.

The expected results of the "Transforming Youth Information - Trafo 2.0" project will be creating a state of the art youth portal offering valuable European information to young people in an interactive way and to replicate this project on national and regional level through EYCA's member organisations. The project would like to contribute to the general