EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax: EURO<26 Youth Organization and Youth Research Defining Strategies for Youth Lobbying Skopje,

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:  EURO<26 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 EURO<26 organize seminars, summer schools and other ways of socializing of youth from all over the Europe. General about organization

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax: 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.

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:  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 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.

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax: 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.

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax: 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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EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:  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, Euro<26 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. Plans on cooperation

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:  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.

EURO<26 SERBIA Beogradska 23,11000 Beograd, Srbija Tel: ; Tel/Fax:    More info at