Youth Information

The aim of the research is to provide insights into the issues that young people face when searching for online information in order to inform the development of good practice on how best to reach young people through the internet. To this aim, an incentivised online survey was disseminated among 13 to 30 years old in six European countries between December 2010 and February 2011. The survey was online and disseminated mainly through online channels.

The second and final seminar of the European Digital Youth Information Project was held at the YouthNet office in London on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th January 2011.

The two days of intense discussion were dedicated to:

• Evaluating the project
• Analyzing the interim results of the final survey, which will remain open for a few more weeks
• Discussing future networking opportunities

YouthNet is the UK's first exclusively online charity. YouthNet guides and supports young people, enabling them to make educated life choices, participate in society and achieve their ambitions.

The Project activities consist of:

• creating an online forum where the network can communicate, discuss, exchange good practice;
• running two seminars where promoters can establish a joined-up approach to the network, share ideas and themes, and propose ideas for future projects;
• creating a final evaluation report - including interviews with young people - which includes case studies, information on best practice, a summary of what we have learnt during our time as a network and ideas for future collaborative projects.

It is a quick (10 minutes) series of questions aimed at understanding how young people in Europe use the Internet.

Young people from Poland are invited to fill it in. Young people from other countries may fill it in too, and choose "Other" when asked the region they come from.

The survey is anonymous.

Go and fill in the survey at

http://survey.youthagora.org/youthnet

...and good luck!

Youth Agora presented Sheryica, the Platform for Youth Information Workers, during the ERYICA General Meeting in Rotterdam, 3-6 December 2009.

In the Sheryica platform, Youth Information Workers from the 8000 ERYICA Information centers will be able to share stories and discuss topics about Youth Information. Sheryica will thus be both a dissemination and collaboration tool for the thousands of Youth Information workers in the ERYICA network.

The European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA) is an independent European organisation, composed of national youth information co-ordination bodies and networks. It works to intensify European co-operation in the field of youth information work and services. It aims to develop, support and promote quality generalist youth information policy and practice at all levels, in order to meet the information needs of young people in Europe and to apply the principles of the European Youth Information Charter.

Youth Information 2.0: European Conference on challenges and opportunities of web based youth information and youth portals.

The ?Youth Information 2.0? conference offered a European platform for the exchange of European Youth Information in the context of online-services and national youth portals.

http://youth.hundertelf.net/

The ESN Galaxy project was selected for "Best of Youth Information 2.0"

Youth Agora presented briefly the ESN Galaxy project and was present on the market place.

Antonio also moderated the workshop on "Visualizing Networks"

The ESN Galaxy project has been selected for "Best of Youth Information 2.0".

The project was briefly presented on Youth Information 2.0: European Conference on challenges and opportunities of web based youth information and youth portals.

http://youth.hundertelf.net/

Have a look to the video of the introduction to the project by Christof.

Youth Agora also was present on the market organized during the conference and Antonio moderated the workshop on "Visualizing Networks".