Network on Youth Issues Sets its Goals

The working group of the Network on Youth Issues worked out the most important issues for the Network which are inter alia: to organise the youth conference, to present and promote the Youth Chronicle and the website and last but not least is to fond a way to increase young peoples possibility to affect both the UBC and locally in the member cities.

For the first time a working group (WG) met in Kalmar, Sweden in February 2004. At the meeting the aims and goals of the Network were discussed. Among other things it was decided to work towards a youth Conference in 2005, where also several young people outside of the Network will have the possibility to take part. It was also decided that the Network should produce a booklet with chronicles written by young people around the Baltic Sea, set up a website of the Network and to keep working on inviting participants from countries that are not participating today.

The following WG meeting took place in Kolding, Denmark in May. The Network had discussions how they should be able to monitor the agenda and documents of the UBC from a youth point of view and it was decided that each participant within the Working Group shall take part of the information from the networks and commissions. The website was also an important issue for the Network since it is essential to reach out with information to enable the members to get in contact with each other more efficiently.

The Working Group (WG) consists of one youth representative and one civil servant rom eight member cities, an EU advisor, a representative from Baltic Sea Secretariat for Youth Affairs, Kiel and a representative from Kumulus, Kalmar (a Swedish project on developing the international dimension in the youth politics).