The ''European Youth Portal'' is a multi-lingual website addressing young people in

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and providing access to youth related European and national information. The aim of the European Youth Portal is to provide young people aged 13 to 30 across Europe with information and opportunities around a wide range of topics based on the EU Youth Strategy, including education, employment, participation, culture, social inclusion, health, mobility and volunteering. One of its major strengths is that this content is provided at European and national levels through a partnership between the European Commission and Eurodesk, and is available in up to 27 different languages, covering 33 countries.

Background

The European Youth Portal is an initiative of the

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and was launched in 2004."EU launches new information portal targeted at young people". EurActiv. 2004-05-26. Retrieved 2009-12-08
/ref> The portal was suggested in the European Commission's

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"A new impetus for European Youth". It has been developed with and for young people, particularly in association with

Eurodesk Eurodesk is an international non-profit association created in 1990. It is a European network of European, national and local information centers for young people and those working with them. It offers youth information on international learning a ...

and the European Youth Forum. In April 2009, the European Commission adopted the EU Youth Strategy. One of the strategy's objectives is to enhance the participation of all young people in society and to increase their participation in civic life and in representative democracy. It is also stated in the Council Resolution of 27 November 2009 on a renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010–2018)." To this end, the European Commission re-launched the European Youth Portal in May 2013 with a new look and feel, and new content. It replaced the previous one which was no longer meeting the growing expectations of its young audience.

Management

The

network - a permanent support structure of the European Union'sbr>'Youth in Action' programme
- is responsible for managing the content, contributing to its translation and promoting the portal."Eurodesk 2010 - a snapshot of activities and good practice." Eurodesk Brussels Link 2011.
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References

External links

*{{Official website, http://europa.eu/youth * https://web.archive.org/web/20131210213631/http://www.eurodesk.eu/edesk/ Youth in Europe European websites European Union society