ET-YFE 2C - "Youth for Europe" programme (second phase), 1992-1994

Previous programme

ET-YFE 1C

Successor programme

ET-YFE 3C

Programme funding

EUR 25 million

Official Journal Reference

L 217 of 1991-08-06

Legislative Reference

91/395/CEE of 1991-07-29

To promote youth exchanges within the European Community for an increasing number of young people from all the Member States, to help improve the quality and diversification of such exchanges, and to support the pursuit of exchanges aimed at developing permanent links between young people.

Abstract

On 16 June 1988 the Council of the European Communities adopted Decision 88/348/EEC establishing the 'Youth for Europe' action programme (Official Journal No L 158 of 25.6.1988) to promote youth exchanges in the Community. This is the second phase of that programme comprising a range of measures directly linked to the development of youth exchanges and mobility in the Community.

Theterm 'youth exchanges' in this context refers to project-centred bilateral exchanges and multilateral exchanges and encounters arranged on the basis of joint projects between groups of young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years residing in two or more Member States, excluding projects which take place in the context of formal education or vocational training. They are of a minimum duration of one week and are specifically planned so as to enable the young people to develop skills for active and working life by increasing their understanding of the economic, social and cultural life of other Member States, by establishing cooperative relationships between goups of young people resident in different Member States, by exchanging ideas and identifying common interests with young people from other countries taking