Youth Program in Action 2007-2013
Call for applications for grants 2010
Youth in action is the program created for young people by the EU. Its aim is to arouse the sense of active European citizenship, solidarity and tolerance in the European youth, as well as to involve them in modeling the Union’s future. This program promotes the mobility inside and outside the borders of the EU, the non formal learning and the intercultural dialogue, in addition to the promotion of the inclusion of all the young people, regardless of their educative, social and cultural context they come from:
Every year the promoters send thousands of project in order to gain economical support on the part of the Program, the selection process has the goal the subsidy of the greatest projects.
This program allows larger participation of the young people in the European political life.
It comprises five actions addressed to the youth of the member States and third countries:
Action “The youth with Europe”: supports the exchanges, the mobility and the initiatives and projects of the youth. -
Action “Volunteer European Service”: strengthens the solidarity and promotes the active compromise in the youth.
Action “The youth with the world”: contributes to the mutual understanding in a spirit of opening to the world.
Action “Social and educative entertainers and supporting systems”: improves the quality of the supporting systems to young people.
Action “Political Cooperation Support”: eases the cooperation in terms of youth politics.
The program is addressed to young people between the age of 15 and 28, while some actions are covered to people between 13 and 30.
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