Youth in Action: Discovering our Europe

What does "Yia" mean? Is it the name of a new Spy agency? Is it the new code To enter your e-mail address? No: are the young people moving all around Europe.

Youth in Action is the Programme the European Union has set up for young people. It aims to 

inspire a sense of active European citizenship, solidarity and tolerance among young Europeans 

and to involve them in shaping the Union's future. A new kind of mobility, based on non-formal learning and intercultural dialogue, investigating into our social and cultural background.

The Youth in Action Programme aims to respond at European level to the needs of young people from 

adolescence to adulthood. It makes an important contribution to the acquisition of competences  supporting

the new youth policy framework for European Cooperation in the youth field adopted in 2009, which

outlines a cross-sectoral approach to youth issues with a view not only to creating more and equal opportunities for all young people.Making young people aware that they are European citizens is a priority of the Youth in Action Programme. The objective is to encourage young people to reflect on European topics and to involve them in the discussion on the construction and the future of the European Union. On this basis, projects should have a strong "European dimension" and stimulate reflection on the emerging European society and its values.  

The priority of the Youth in Action Programme is the active participation of young people in their daily life. What does it mean? It means to be active citizens in European reality, into the dimension that shows us that we are part of the european consciousness, and we mhave to take part at this project; only understanding and respecting our cultural differences we will able to appreciate mthem and increase our baggage of knowledge with a larger sense of being citizens.


Gianluca