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Youth on the Move - InfoMobility Background Paper

Youth information and counselling , perceived as inherent element of services supporting youth , is a historically relatively recent phenomena. It used to be directed at keeping youth at the “right path” and c e ntred around morality or at providing psychological help to the young people in personal crisis. Starting from 1960s, the youth information and counselling has shifted towards “generalist” concept, i.e. towards providing youth with user - targeted information and counselling in all areas of interest to youth taking into account their real need. In other words, youth information and counselling systems have recognised this area as a matter of human rights, which enables young people to improve their social status o n the basis of their needs and aspirations. In the introductory part this paper identifies access to quality information as a prerequisite for enabling young people to become self - fulfilled, happy and productive members of their societies. In this respec t, a review of youth information policies is also presented, as well as data on youth attitudes towards usage of youth information and counselling systems and insights into youth mobility. These insights are accompanied by identification of crucial stakeho lders and instruments in youth information and counselling. It is elaborated why s takeholders in youth inf ormation – both government - lead and nongovernmental - bear responsibility to create accountable and appealing youth information and counselling system s that respect young people as both users and producers of information and will in building their autonomy. An important part of this paper refer s to the good practice examples in the field of youth information and counselling, ranging from national yout h information and counselling systems to individual projects undertaken at the national level. This section equally present s projects from both EU Member and non - Member states, trying to encompass va rieties of activities that aim at informing the youth and giving them o pportunities to express their attitudes and worldviews. In t he fina l section of the paper we identify major drawbacks and advances of European youth information and counselling system, and present the Youth on the Move – Infomobility proje ct as the main theme in closing the gaps between state of the art youth information and counselling and goals set by the European policy guidelines.

Youth; mobility; information; counselling; Europe

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