Eryica

ERYICA SEMINAR: Using Internet to Inform Young People
COUNCIL OF EUROPE SIGNS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH ERYICA

ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency)

IS twenty-five national networks of youth information and counselling structures seeking to develop the European dimension of their work
PROVIDES a framework for European co-operation among 4000 "generalist" youth information and counselling services
ENCOURAGES innovation in youth information, and a continuing dialogue among professionals in this area
PROMOTES staff training and professional exchanges as well as the circulation of ideas and methods
SEEKS to improve youth information and counselling services throughout Europe, including by promoting sound methods and by developing awareness of new needs
WORKS for a more co-ordinated approach to youth information, especially at the national level, so as to create the necessary conditions for effective services at the European level

The history of ERYICA goes back to 1985, when the first European Seminar of Youth Information and Counselling Centres, held in April 1985 in Marly-le-Roi (France), recommended that European co-operation in this field be intensified and that a minimum structure be created for that purpose. This seminar led to the establishment of ERYICA. Interested organisations, meeting as members of an International Liaison Committee (ILC), decided in Madrid in April 1986 to launch the European Youth Information and Counselling Association. In 1991, ERYICA modified its constitution, especially with regard to its membership criteria, with the aim of encouraging its existing and future members to promote the development of more coherent national policy in the area of youth information. Now called the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency, the organisation was legally registered as a non-profit-making association in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in 1992.

ERYICA members or affiliated organisations are 25 national or regional youth information and counselling organisations in 16 coountries. In addition, ERYICA co-operates in various areas with 18 organisations from 11 countries which are not members of the Agency.
The programmes and activities undertaken by ERYICA have recently been in the areas of training, new information technologies or youth mobility. By its structure ERYICA is a non- profit-making association, which is governed by a General Assembly, which elects an Executive Committee. The Executive Committee elects its own bureau. The Secretariat of ERYICA is in Paris.
ERYICA publishes three times a year a EUROflash bulletin. The ERYICA member organisations and the local youth information centres in different countries follow the European Youth Information Charter, adopted by ERYICA in Bratislava in December 1993.

More information of ERYICA at its Secretariat:
ERYICA 101, quai Branly F-75740 Paris Cedex 15 France tel. (+33-1) 44 49 13 26 fax (+33-1) 40 65 02 61

For more information mail to: euroinfo@alli.fi