Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija

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EUROlt26

• Youth Organization and Youth Research
• Defining Strategies for Youth Lobbying
• Skopje, 18.11.2006.

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General about organization

• EUROlt26 is European youth card that is being
  issued since 1987, by EYCA European Youth Card
  Association.
• Since 1991 EYCA was linked to European council
  and European parliament by partial agreement.
• National organizations of EUROlt26 organize
  seminars, summer schools and other ways of
  socializing of youth from all over the Europe.

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Research department

• The European Youth Card Association (EYCA) is
  interested in knowing what young people think and
  why.
• EYCA launched a new project in January 2005, the
  EYCAdemy, in order to establish a permanent
  structure for youth research.
• EYCAdemy is the Trainer program, aimed at
  comparable youth research, that is combined with
  comparative European youth research projects.
• The EYCAdemy project is supported by the European
  Commission and the Partial Agreement with the
  Council of Europe.

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• In 2005 the first training with the EYCAdemy
  started with participants from 12 countries, now
  there is 17 countries from across Europe
  participated in the training in 2006 - the aim is
  to have all 47 countries in Europe participate!
• For Europe wide comparative qualitative research
  with more than a few focus groups in each country
  more moderators than the trained one are needed.
  So a network of similar trained moderators for
  comparable European qualitative research is to be
  established.
• The researchers are also trained in consulting
  future clients for the best method of social
  research therefore other methods of social
  research, qualitative and quantitative.
• The major reason for using qualitative over
  quantitative research is, that by using Focus
  Groups the reason why young people hold a
  certain opinion about a given subject versus how
  many becomes transparent.

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Possibilities of research data

• Data collected by comparable youth research
• gives an inside on young people needs and
  thinking, that can be applied in youth organizing
  and policy.
• can keep you up to date in trends of youth needs
  and mobility.
• is used by Council of Europe in forming Youth
  Platform.
• is used by our organization in determining our
  future youth policy.
• was presented on number of conferences regarding
  youth policy in Serbia and Europe.

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Topics

• Topics of the comparative research were
• 2003 White Book of Youth 42 groups.
• 2004 Preferences in Youth Information and Media
  Perception 66 groups.
• 2005 Youth Participation versus Leisure Time
  78 groups.
• 2006 Diversity of Society on Local Level 102
  groups.

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Plans on cooperation

• Future plans include forming a qualitative
  research network of youth researchers on Serbian
  level as well as furthering cooperation with
  surrounding countries youth workers.
• We aim to continue international cooperation on
  the EYCAdemy level.
• Data on youth we collected are useful tools and
  road marks for defining youth policy strategies.
• In the future, Eurolt26 Serbia, research
  department, shall destine to cooperate with a
  number of NGO-s dealing with youth policy and
  legislation as well as Ministry for Education and
  Sport.

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• The research projects on European level are lead
  by Manfred Zentner, Austrian youth researcher and
  national correspondent of Austria to the European
  Youth Research Network and national correspondent
  to the European Knowledge Centre.
• In Serbia national level research project is led
  by sociologists Gazela Pudar and Verica Pavic.

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More info at

• www.euro26.org.yu/projekti
• www.eyca.org
• www.euro26.org